IDW 2021

16 17 #12 Tomorrow’s thoughts today By Maximiliaan Royakkers This workshop will be about the future of Luchtbal. And its present. The way in which we project onto tomorrow, depends on the qualities and concerns of today. As Luchtbal is a territory in transformation, who’s tomorrow is under continuous development and change we can ask ourselves: If yesterday’s tomorrow is not today, how soon is now? This question urges us to speculate on the values and possibilities we can imagine on the future of a place. Together we will uncover the present spatial condition of Luchtbal and the northern Ringroad and re-act to its (near) future. We will look carefully at how it will change faces in the upcoming years, and pick a moment in the future to address and intervene. What could it look like? And how could it be lived? Will it tell stories? Will we play in it? In dialogue with local youngsters we will develop speculative scenarios about a moment in the future of a space within the Luchtbal neighbourhood. In group we will develop our speculations into a series of “tableaux vivants”, living pictures, that we will perform in real time in the spaces of our speculations. Some- where between a 1:1 scale model and a performance lies an opportunity to briefly act the future while being in the present, bridging the gap between both reali- ties. We will question what we want to keep from the present, and what can be added to the current visions on the future. #13 Inscribing shared memories By Sammy Baloji The Middelheim Museum has commissioned a sculp- ture in the public space of Antwerp, which will be re- alized in the course of the year 2021. I want to use this as a starting point for exchanges with the participants in my workshop. The sculpture project will not be central to all the activities to be organized during the workshop. However, it seems to me that the questions inherent to the need to have a sculpture made by an artist of Congolese origin in Antwerp echo to a certain extent the challenges that IDW2021 wishes to take up by organizing the workshops and a festival in the area between Luchtbal and Lambrechtshoeken. The Luchtbal neighborhood not only has a remark- able history, but it is also home to a diverse population that makes it a difficult urban area. In order to prevent the urban space that connects Luchtbal and Merk- sem from being a place of permanent tension, a set of social actions are necessary, including the assets of culture, design, architecture and art to make this space inclusive and a place favourable to meeting. It is not about creating monuments or permanent sculptures. But, to envisage, during the time of the workshop and the festival, this space as a place of meeting, of inscribing the trajectories and memories of the populations of the two municipalities with the help of design, architecture and art. To create a path of meetings and sharing of memories of the two com- munes. Image 1 A Blue Print for Toads and Snakes Installation view, Lunds Konsthall, 2020 (c) Daniel Zachrisson Image 2 Untitled 21_Mémoire_2006 Image 3 Johari - Brass band, Grand Palais, Paris © Collection Grand Palais, photo Didier Plowy 1 2 3