WAK

Client: WAK
Location: Mechelen
Realization: 2006
Design team: David Driesen, Tom Verschueren
Photography: dmvA


The week of the Amateur Arts is an annual happening in Flanders with the aim of promoting the Amateur Arts. The last two years, an artists’ platform is organized by the Arts Center of Mechelen in the Hanswijk street, which is then made car-free. Performances and socio-cultural activities take place on various stages and various booths.

Through this event in 2006, Arts Center Mechelen wanted to draw attention to an old vacant school building in the Hanswijk street, that could be used for cultural activities while waiting for a new function.

Based on the WAK year theme ‘Carnation’ (symbol of the revolution), the street façade of the old school was covered with blue vegetable trays. The new temporary front façade formed a ‘gateway’ to the courtyard and the indoor school building as a temporary arts center. Various objects, like benches, stages and stands, are constructed with the same blue vegetable trays and animate the street during WAK.

Based on the WAK year theme ‘Carnation’ (symbol of the revolution), the street façade of the old school was covered with blue vegetable trays. The new temporary front façade formed a ‘gateway’ to the courtyard and the indoor school building as a temporary arts center. Various objects, like benches, stages and stands, are constructed with the same blue vegetable trays and animate the street during WAK.