Whose business is it to shape cities and urban areas and who has the power and resources to reimagine cities? Jim Segersand Sofie van Bruystegem from the Brussels-based NGO CityMine(d) challenge the status quo of who has the right and power to shape urban areas since 1997.

In highly co-creative processes, their aim is to engage residents, particularly in disadvantaged neighbourhoods who are too often excluded from city-making. City Mine(d) is an organisation at the crossroads between architecture, and urbanism activism, but also in the middle between residents, commuters, artists, investors, researchers and policymakers and therefore a medium through which all of these actors can communicate.

Jim and Sofie are true boundary spanners, linking disadvantaged and underserved communities in Brussels with state-of-the-art interventions for transforming urban areas and I am very happy to have them on the Cities Reimagined Podcast.

Photo @Sophie Feyder.

This episode was published on September 2023.