Hello dears 
The Reef is like an experimental embodiement of transversality between hard issues such as housing and environment and soft issues such as governance and community building.
To put it in a nutshell : these are also ingredients of my daily life recipe in Brussels and beyond.
In Brussels specifically, I do a lot with social changemakers that have chosen to give back life to obsolete and unused areas with circular purposes and techniques. When I say a lot, I mean
- Sharing prospective and technical advices ;
- Participating at the current gathering of actors that pushed forward the creation of Saint-Vide Leegbeek. The 20st town of Brussels Capitale, based on its 6.5 millions sqmetres to develop socially and culturally oriented project ;
- Opening up my network that is full of both local and EU level representatives to advocate for the recognition of temporary occupation as a lever for economic social and cultural rights.
A partnership with edgeryders could be based on a thorough participation on both topics:
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I’d like to work on building and secure qualitative partnership. I spent this all year mapping actors and their interest. We can talk about it deeper but I guess some actors of social innovation would really love the project. CLTB and Coopcity are one of them and I’m pretty sure they’d be glad to think about new economic models, access to land and buildings, creating communities of inhabitants and workers with the Reef experiment :).
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I’d be glad to offer you some support on the matter of community building and co design @Noemi. I’m working on consensus decision making processes these days mostly with Toestand
; know a bit on knowledge sharing and non formal education to help participants going out of their confort zone during those types of co design moments.The very last moment I practiced those skills was in Albania with youth communities from Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania :). We were putting community will at the center as a major requirement before requalifying collectively a space that will be community led. I guess this has a lot of intersection with the Reef project. We can talk about it deeper whenever you want and I’d be very happy to know more about what you do in Marocco HadeerGhareeb
To let you know : my professional agenda is about figure out where are the links between temporary occupations (as a mean) and social innovation actors (as the change we want to implement and multiply). One workshop is already organized on that matter with European Lab forum in early October.
I can keep you uptodate because I guess links are already existant
voilààààààà !!!
wish u the best, already looking forward to share a first aperomaker at the Reef 
Baobaburbain - Iza