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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 . […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Chicoco Human Cities Project
Chicoco / Human City Project is a community-driven media, architecture, planning and human rights initiative in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Michael Uwemedino, director of the project, is exploring design processes through which […]
ODA Wetopia Academy
Open Design Afrika Wetopia Academy. “Making Cities Together” in Cape Town. Open Design Afrika (ODA) is very proud to launch the first Wetopia Academy in October 2019. The ODA Wetopia Academy […]
