What’s a door?

How to build a door with and for our community?

With The House for Collective Imagination, Globe Aroma is building a permanent place where organisations, artists and people on the move meet, collaborate and create. Through a collective design process, we shape this shared infrastructure together, so that it is accessible and usable. During the collective imagination session ‘What’s a door?’, the community explored which doors invite and which exclude, in order to collectively design (and build!) a new front door for Globe Aroma. On 2 May, we’re gently opening the (new!) gate. Come and see what is already there, and imagine what is still to come.

How does a door look like that is welcoming for people that usually experience closed doors in the city, while protecting them from hostile environments caused by police raids or violent visitors? A door that doesn’t replicate references to carceral architectures that are all too often part of the migration system like fences and surveillance cameras? And lastly, how can that door translate the artistic identity of the many artists and creatives using the space, as opposed to an institutional building with anonymous facades?

With co-designers: Selin Buyuktasci, Habib Saher, Fareed Aziz, Shilemeza Prins, Tatiana Zubieta Cordoba, Chloé de Salins (Studio Campus architects). With co-builders: Ibrahima Sory Sylla, Tatiana Zubieta Cordoba, Shilemeza Prins, Selin Buyuktasci, Pepijn Kennis, Benjamin Fernandez, Christophe Wullus, Anton Cauvain (Zinneke), Heleen Verheyden. With Globe Aroma’s team: An Vandermeulen, Pepijn Kennis, Heleen Verheyden, Amina Sâadi.