Since 2024, dallas, Gilbard and Anna Luz Pueyo have been working together on the slab at 43B Rue de Liverpool to imagine new uses for it. In July 2025, the demineralisation project finally followed the planning and soil analysis stages, during a week open to the public under the Molenbeek sun. My role was to assist both collectives with the operation, with a special focus on planting and recreating a living ground that would host a new biodiversity.
In planters dug into the ground, a combination of dye plants produces colours and links with the garden, without the risk of ingesting pollutants. The round planters each have their own colour: yellow with reseda, blue with woad and red with madder. A vegetable garden on top of the slab irrigated by the gutter of the neighbouring building offers free access to vegetables and herbs for local residents who participate in planting and maintenance.
The object of study is both the excavated material and the hole, the positive and the negative. The soil, freed from concrete and asphalt, regains its ecological functions, allowing ecosystems to re-establish themselves and flourish. A bench has been carved out of the mineral slab, inviting people to enjoy it and gather around the harvest.
Project carried out by the Dallas collective (Simon Lemutricy and Salomon Tyler), Gilbard (Aliocha Tazi and Colin Roustan) and myself, with the help of Zoé Brochard, Maud, Mahaut Guerin Ladouce and the children of the Cureghem/Heyvaert neighbourhood, between Molenbeek-Saint-Jean and Anderlecht, on the route of the future Senette park.
With the support of the King Baudouin Foundation and the municipality of Anderlecht.
