What we learned through our practice...

During the preparation of our intervention in Schaerbeeks' CItizen Lights Festival 2018 the main partner and ambassador towards the neighbourhood we were working with was a women living in rue Fiers. She told us her secret trick for making people engage. You should never do to much in their place, said she. You should always leave "blanc space" in order to let people contribute by themselves. For instance, when they organised movie screenings in the collective garden, she provided the projector but not the extension cables that were necessary to plug the projector. People had to get organised to gather the missing material...