Promoting Industry in Brussels: A Good City Has Industry
- Submitting institution
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London Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 11.32
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Portfolio - Design Processes
- Open access status
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- Year
- 2020
- URL
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https://issuu.com/arts_londonmet/docs/brearley_clossick_promoting_industry_in_brussels__
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Research group(s)
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4 - The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE)
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Brussels, like London, is squeezed for land with limited space for new development. Since 2013, Mark Brearley, Jane Clossick and colleagues at AAD Cities, have situated research in Brussels, exploring ways to promote integration of industrial activities into the urban fabric. This portfolio collates multiple strands of action, exploring questions, methods and insights revealed through this process.
The research explored the industrial economy in Brussels, assessing the integration of industrial uses into the urban fabric, and testing processes of influencing stakeholders towards valuing and retaining industry.
● Where are the opportunities in the city-region for industrial use-mix and intensification?
● What strategies best integrate industrial accommodation within the city of Brussels in these areas of opportunity?
● How best to raise awareness of the industrial economy and its challenges in Brussels amongst city stakeholders?
● How can the development opportunities be made visible to stakeholders and policymakers?
The process includes: 1. Surveying and mapping of past and present geography of the industrial economy; 2. Envisioning future scenarios for key localities through research-by-design; 3. Engendering collaboration between the agencies involved; 4. Advocating ideas generated through step three to accelerate the retention and revalidation of industry. This process was implemented through 20 research-by-design workshops, a major exhibition and multiple engagements with stakeholders.
The research has been disseminated across multiple channels, both as part of the process of producing outputs and at numerous presentations in Brussels, London and across Europe.
The potential loss of industry in the nucleus of the urban fabric in Brussels (as in London) would have irreversible impact on the economy and ripple effect on functioning of cities, through the decentralisation of livelihoods, affecting social structures in cities. The research made visible this possible degradation, and explored opportunities for altering the course through affecting policy change.
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- Non-English
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