Thank you yesterday!
For your stories, laughter, dedication and feedback at the opening of the Palette Expo Parcours. They reaffirmed the exhibition is more than displays: it's a launch pad for future collective initiatives on urban logistics tailored to the neighbourhood. (always up for a good challenge, you know us)
The exhibition remains open until 3 July and can be viewed freely in shop windows throughout the Marolles.
The brochure and exhibition map (FR–EN–NL) are available in 15 locations across the neighbourhood and online
Contact us for visits or any request.
PALETTE EXPO #Marolles Over the past year, Palette has been examining the small but continual tasks that fill our days: picking up food, finding clothes, fetching essentials. We noticed how much
time and personal effort goes into these routines, and how that effort is reflected in every price tag.
We talked to residents from the Marolles, to shopkeepers, barkeepers, traffic wardens, waste collectors, market vendors. Hundreds of them. We decided to share our insights, keep the conversation going, and consider possible ways to intervene and act on what we have learnt.
Palette Expo = a circuit with:
7 Dioramas*
The different mismatches in the logistic system, which could be a cause for concern, but could also be an opportunity to re-invent or alter the way we do logistics (moving things around), were translated into 7 Dioramas by Colin Delfosse. Using humour, they stimulate us to pause and reconsider how things move around.
3 Marble Machines
Martial Prévert was asked to make a model of the logistic system in the Marolles. This has turned into an entire analogue computer that generates your LOGISTIC IDENTITY CARD and helps you identify the choices you have within the logistics system. This Marble Machine visualises what tends to remain hidden.
A Repertoire
In search for alternative approaches to logistics, we have encountered and interviewed twenty-one initiatives. More details about each of them can be found in the online repertoire (repertoire.palette.re).
Talkshops
But it does not stop here. This is only the beginning. We will dive more deeply into some of our discoveries. We are inviting specialists in specific occurrences or topics we have observed into conversation with experts by experience. Together they will put potential improvements and alternatives to the test. These meetings are called Talkshops.
From the Talkshop we move on to the Workshop, as Palette’s ultimate aim is to actually build and test alternative ways to organise logistics.
But first things first:
Visit the Dioramas, take your Personality Test and discover the 22 alternatives.
Enjoy!
With Hugo Boutry (photos) Colin Delfosse (collages dioramas) Ekta (graphic design) Martial Prevent (scenography and machine realisation) Charles Savoie (research, general wellbeing and allround rescuer) Antoine Guilmin, Lucie Briand, Cloé Barbier, Arthib.be - (production, realisation) Marie-Charlotte Noel (support in early stages) Philippe Lebeau Mobilise VUB (academic and general support)
Rona Kennedy, Manu De Loeul and Frederik Serroen (proofreading)
Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie and Department of Culture, Youth and Media (financial support)
& expo hosts Bento - Architecture, Mazette Mazette, MAROLLES, Terrabio.be, Lidl, Bibliothèque Bruegel CPAS de la Ville de Bruxelles - OCMW van de Stad Brussel, Boulangerie O'Brioche
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