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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 […]

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Interviews with Joke Quintens

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 […]

Nairobi

Wetopia in Mathare, Nairobi.

In collaboration with Living Lab Nairobi we developed a first Wetopia workshop to co-create energy solutions between the residents of the informal settlement Mathare in Nairobi (Kenya), experts and policy […]

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Wetopia Global Inspiration

At Global Inspiration Day of the Virtual Festival “Rise Afrika Rise” Open design Afrika 2020, we presented a Wetopia session! In WETOPIA we all acknowledge that we can only make […]

Cape Town

Waste Pickers as superheroes!

Waste pickers are the superheroes with the least superpowers – Mundano On 8 June 2020, on World Oceans Day, we launched the call to all, to collectively see the waste […]

Marseille

Le Tour de Tous les Possibles.

“A day to never forget! I went to the prison Les Baumettes. With a group of Kedge Business School students. And they co-created their dreams for their city, […]

Marseille

Democratic experiment in my city Marseille.

Will spring begin in Marseille on 22 March 2020? Local elections will be held in France on 15 and 22 March. I’m looking forward to this ballot in my city […]

Paris

Les Grands Voisins.

In less than three years Les Grands Voisins in Paris became the reference and an emblematic figure of possibilities for urban vitality, generosity and creativity. What we can see from […]

Port Elisabeth

Co-created crèche in Joe Slovo township.

The Joe Slovo West Community Project is a haven for small children on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. The small school’s design was managed by Kevin Kimwelle . […]

Nairobi

Living Lab Nairobi

Living Lab Nairobi is a great example how scientists are an important partner in Wetopia. Co-DEC is one of the projects “CO-DESIGNING ENERGY COMMUNITIES WITH ENERGY POOR WOMEN IN URBAN […]

Cape Town

“From gangsters to gardeners”

With its strong motto “to make gardening cool” the idea of founder Xolisa Bangani from Khatelitsha is to get young people involved in environmental activities using gardening as a basic […]

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