What would a post-capitalist world look like, one focused on degrowth, short supply chains and the local economy? A world without oil, where energy is generated with respect for nature? A world without agribusiness, where a new territorial policy could be introduced thanks to spectacular advances in crop yields and jobs in new crops and intensive horticultural techniques? A world where agricultural land, once ravaged by monoculture and soil depletion, is transformed and makes way for new rural activities? And above all, what architecture do we design for this new world?

This is the question that Gilles Debrun and Dimitri Fache of UCL Loci in Tournai posed to themselves, together with the master’s students at UCL Loci in Tournai. They based their work on the principles of the Bioregion, an interdisciplinary international ecological movement.