Hometown map
EN – Let’s say, we’re 1970. I’m thirteen years old and after school I prefer to walk with my friends to the railway station. For me, to get back home […]
A Test
EN – It was different, back in 1914. Antwerpen was under siege and surrounded by as yet undefeated Germans. Inside its perimeter: the retiring Belgian army, the British Expeditionary Force, […]
Economy
EN – Since tourism organisations have been taking the lead in the commemoration of ‘The Great War Centenary’ in Flanders, tourism as a whole has been suffering severe criticism and […]
Menin Gate at Midnight
EN – Some images make you stop in your tracks to take a better look. I could not just walk past this painting, of which I discovered a reproduction in […]
Souls of Zonnebeke
EN – I suspect that, if it could choose for itself, Zonnebeke would rather stick to agriculture, cheese making and the odd cycling tourist. Unfortunately history decided otherwise. In […]
A (-) Hyphen
EN – A forest of arms as strong as tree trunks. Groping, searching fingers as their foliage. A baobab forest of human limbs in red brown clay – not by […]
Urgency
EN – This summer months our representatives abroad will be drafting their action plans for the year 2014. The more information and inspiration they are can acquire, the […]
To War
EN – Three men in the power of their lives were commissioned by our public network to walk along the Western Front, from Nieuwpoort at the BelgianCoast to Gallipoli in […]
Procedure
EN – Finally. We’ve put Ogilvy Brussels to work. They were the best of the handful of companies that postulated to set up our international communication campaign. Fi-nal-ly. It’s hallucinating […]
Give Give Give
EN – Would you give for refugees from a country at war? When recently ‘1212’ started, the national action to collect funds for the Syrian refugees, my fellow citizens did […]
my great war / mijn groote oorlog 