The Dkollage is a collective renovation process to which we invite you to participate, in order to reappropriate this space together and to make it evolve.
By valuing our industrial heritage and stimulating experimentation, let’s trigger a local dynamic of creative initiatives that can be anchored in the new urban neighbourhood Neischmelz.
What? How?
Exchange of ideas, conviviality, sharing of know-how, solidarity, DIY, inclusion, participation, revaluation, transmission of knowledge, learning, storytelling, cooking, openness, planting, experimental music, hospitality, heritage, daydreams, ecology, creativity, sustainability …
A (future) space of possible utopia(s)
Dudelange appears to be fertile ground for several reasons. The first is based on its dominant industrial past which, after its dismantling, has left a society that is as much in loss of its points of reference as nostalgic for its manufacturing prowess. The second is the attachment of this culture to its landscapes which are still perceived in the collective imagination.
Material archaeology – memory of things and present objects
The reconversion of part of the heritage on these sites makes it possible to define the identity of the places by fighting against modernisation and mass production which can tend to standardise lifestyles and urban environments. In a first step, a reconversion favours the anchoring in the city and allows the inhabitants to identify themselves in their environment. The building becomes the symbol of a past architecture and the new programme makes it accessible to the public who rediscovers and reappropriates the place.
The programmes will be sensitive and adapted to the place, taking advantage of the existing potential and enhancing its character, one can intelligently combine the old (industrial heritage) and the new (design, etc ).
An infinite or unfinished, indefinite place, always to be finished and never finished, overflowing the edges and limits, leads to synergies, to “doing together”, to learning and to the circulation of ideas. Although this idea seems utopian, it is rooted in the here and now of our society, which is in permanent mutation.
By keeping the wild, hybrid, authentic aspect, creating a new function open to all in order to carry out a truly participative reflexion process.
The building, which will be completely rebuilt in 2022, is deliberately under construction. The work will be accompanied by artistic actions and workshops that will help to rebuild the space. A place of experimentation and research, in constant mutation, in which the spectator, the citizen and the artist are actively involved in the evolution, will be created. This collaborative approach is essential in order to associate the project manager with the future users of the space.
The idea is to create spaces for experimentation that extend beyond the site itself, a public space factory of “doing”, hybrid forums augmented by the practice of “in situ” with an genuinely convivial character.
Project leaders : Ville de Dudelange, DKollektiv, Fonds du Logement, Œuvre Grande Duchesse
