What are LABdays?

LABdays is an engaged curatorial project initiated by Maak & Transmettre asbl and L’architecture qui dégenre asbl, focusing on inclusive design, its history, and its future potential, with Centrale for contemporary art as its spatial core.

Through 10 moments of exchange over the course of one week, LABdays invites participants to imagine a more equal, inclusive, and socially representative cultural sector. Visitors are encouraged to become active contributors to their own cultural experience through workshops/labs, talks, and guided tours.

The three Brussels-based organisations – Maak & Transmettre asbl, L’architecture qui dégenre asbl, and Centrale for contemporary art – bring together art and equality to rethink culture, spaces, and the city as accessible to everyone.

Programme:

WORKSHOPS :

• May 26: Seating for everyone with OpenStructures and Fat Friendly (FR–EN).

• May 27: Writing a deconstructed museum #2 with Bye Bye Binary.

TALKS:

• May 27: The museum for everyone: accessibility challenges and symbolic barriers with Noura Amer (Maison des Femmes – MOVE asbl), Loredana Marchi (MigratieMuseumMigration – asbl Foyer).
  Moderated by Annabelle Hoffait (L’architecture qui dégenre).
  Venue: Ground floor of MigratieMuseumMigration.

• May 28: Institutional testimonies: feedback from inclusion focal points with Estiel Vandeweeghe (Centrale for contemporary art), Benoît Henken (Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles), Nicky Lapierre (Les Halles de Schaerbeek).
  Moderated by Apolline Vranken (L’architecture qui dégenre).
  Venue: Ground floor of Le Lombard (ULB), Rue du Lombard 34/42, 1000 Brussels.

GUIDED TOURS:

• May 31: Brussels beyond gender boundaries by L’architecture qui dégenre (Apolline Vranken).

• May 31: From the museum to public space: what physical barriers? by L’architecture qui dégenre (Annabelle Hoffait).

• June 1: From the museum to public space: what symbolic barriers? by L’architecture qui dégenre (Annabelle Hoffait).

SHOWCASE:

The toolbox is available here:
👉 https://readymag.website/u2665503274/LABdays/