Value proposition

Independent Innovation House for Transformation

Architecture Workroom Brussels is a cultural innovation house for the transformation of the social and physical living environment. The organisation's mission is to enable the transition to a solidarity-based, sustainable and circular urban landscape by means of design and architecture. It supports the development of new projects, coalitions and practices that provide solutions to tomorrow's important societal challenges, related to themes such as food, water, energy, mobility, housing and community.

The innovation house uses design and culture as levers to achieve its mission. Spatial and design research play a major role in exploring and imagining possible futures. But AWB goes further than simply placing the options on the agenda. The cultural innovation platform plays a connecting role with regard to new coalitions, projects and practices, resulting in effective transformation in the living environment.

To this end, AWB brings both innovators and the current dominant players together in a new practice environment. AWB provides the context and the tools for designers, local organisations, supralocal authorities and knowledge institutions to devise concrete, conceivable and achievable answers to the pertinent questions of our time.

The innovation platform focuses on the future of the European built and open space in general, and of the urbanised, central European Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta in particular. Brussels, small cosmopolitan city and European capital, serves as the ideal international context as well as an exemplary laboratory for the innovation house’s mission.