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jokequintens

The right to the sky in the Medina.

With a very diverse group of students from the Master “Transitions des métropoles et cooperation en Méditerranée” of the University Aix-Marseille and a team of scholars from Marseille and Rabat, […]

Brussels

Girls Play the City

What do young women need to exercise freely and safely outdoors? That was the key question of Girls Play The City, a new chapter to the Brussels urban project Girls […]

Brussels

This is Us. This is Brussels.

This is Us. This is Brussels is an artistic/social design project that creates a human archive of 1000 people to make Brussels and the inhabitants of Brussels of the 2020s […]

Marseille

À Nous les Toits!

A Nous les Toits: is a collective to create more “us” and a “right to the sky for all” in Marseille. While the potential use of roofs are numerous, the […]

Wetopia

Speak Up Brussels!

One of the beautiful ambitions for Brussels2030, the candidacy for European Capital of Culture, is to create more “us”. Wetopian Joke Quintens is an enthusiastic partner to the B2030 team […]

Cape Town

Wetopia as leverage for connected museums.

How to make great art institutions such as museums accessible to all, especially to communities? How to become a thriving museum with thriving communities, how creating more “us” and how […]

Wetopia

Discover our Wetopia world!

Wetopia interventions aim to create ” us ” between people who do not always know each other but share the same place, neighbourhood or city. Starting from the love for […]

Brussels

Girls make the city!

In the late summer of 2022, ZIJkant and Wetopia united 25 young people with very different interests and backgrounds around a piece of Brussels they share: the skate park at […]

Genk

No Nature-Based Solutions without Wetopia.

End of April 2022, Joke Quintens introduced the participants of the Connecting Nature Summit to the idea of Wetopia. And how you can bring Wetopia into practice for climate and […]

Port Elisabeth

Wetopia in Gqeberha (former Port Elisabeth)

Check the amazing work of Wetopia partner Kevin Kimwelle in Gqeberha: 3 projects where new alliances and bottom-up approaches prove great tangible results. ‘Design and architecture should be agents of […]

Wetopia

Joke Quintens about Wetopia.

Columns about Wetopians in Dutch 🌿 Mundano (Sāo Paulo) 🌿 Tarik Ghezali & Nathalie Gatelier (Marseille) 🌿 Kevin Kimwelle (Gqeberha) 🌿 ManSee Kong (New York) 🌿 Selma & Sofiane Ouissi […]

Tunis

Wetopia in Tunis

1-6 November 2021, we did a workshop in Tunis for L’Art Rue in the frame of the “All Around Culture” project. L’Art Rue is a non-profit Tunisian organisation that carries a […]

Oostende

De Grote Invitatie

(The Great Invitation in Oostende) The 21st century brings great changes. Just think of climate, livable cities, decolonisation and super-diversity. In these changes lie challenges, but also opportunities. Opportunities to make […]

Wetopia

A School of Will.

Entrepreneurs as catalysts for an inclusive society. Can entrepreneurs accelerate the development of an inclusive society? Can they harness the potential of the most vulnerable and thus unleash all talent […]

Wetopia

Wetopia is Innovator for the Future!

Our project “Wetopia, Making Cities Together” has been elected as one of the 18 “Innovators for the Future” worldwide ! This is from an original 600 entries from 92 countries […]

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Wetopia

Making cities together in new alliances, creating more "us".

Author Archives

jokequintens

The right to the sky in the Medina.

Girls Play the City

This is Us. This is Brussels.

À Nous les Toits!

Wetopia’s 3 superpowers.

Speak Up Brussels!

Wetopia as leverage for connected museums.

Discover our Wetopia world!

Girls make the city!

No Nature-Based Solutions without Wetopia.

Wetopia in Gqeberha (former Port Elisabeth)

Joke Quintens about Wetopia.

Wetopia in Tunis

De Grote Invitatie

A School of Will.

Wetopia is Innovator for the Future!