Weaving Futures
Weaving Futures is a series of open ateliers to co-create knowledge, share skills, and make place and space through culture. Creative inhabitants of Sanem are invited to join making tools and tunes for a pluriversal future.
At the invitation of the municipality of Sanem a group of artists temporarily based in the Foyer, and from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, organised a series of cultural ateliers that unpacked shared futures through collaborative forms of making. Developed by designer Annelys de Vet and the Douri association, inhabitants were invited for six engaging workshops; from video-diaries to upcycled fashion, from food traditions to rock songs, from French hip hop to Congolese Sape and do-it-yourself zines.
Hosted in the A Gadder Museum in Belvaux we created a hybrid place, where multiple interests coexisted. The participating artists developed specific workshops based on their skills and interests. Through collaborative forms of making we encouraged new sociabilities and spaces of expression, of crossing, open and convivial, which inspire people and make them want to come back. It became a platform for research, sustainable development, knowledge sharing and co-creation.
Weaving Futures, is a project by Annelys de Vet & Yusra Amounah (Douri a.s.b.l.), in the framework of the programme loop - down the hills, across the land curated by Anna Loporcaro, produced by the municipality of Sanem and coordinated by Services for Creatives for Esch2022 - European Capital of Culture.
Concept: Yusra Amounah & Annelys de Vet
Organisation: Douri asbl.
Illustrations: Siwar Kraitem
Partner: Disarming Design department Sandberg Instituut
Photography: Nael Nassan
Location: Kultur- a Geschichtshaus A Gadder (Belvaux)
Artists and workshop facilitators: Hazem Alqaddi, Elettra Bisogno, Nael Nassan, Julina Bezold, Fadi Jaafar, Samira Mousa, Samira Vogel, Ola Allaf, Sadiqeh Eftekhhari Danesh, Fiyori Estinfanos Dawit, Anna Garcia Gomez, Bascam Hatice, Siwar Kraitem, Nazmul Haque Tonmoy, Priscila da Costa, Parisse De Dorian Boumpoutou Loukalou, Jonathan Braga, Omaima Mussa, Sarah Saleh, Jara van Teeffelen
