The second Yearbook of the Master’s programme in Urban Design and Spatial Planning brings together the work developed by students throughout the 2025–2026 academic year. Under the shared theme “We Re-imagine”, the publication explores how imagination can become a tool to question existing conditions and envision alternative futures in response to today’s socio-ecological challenges. Across three design studios, students worked at different scales and in different contexts: from the transformation of modernist social housing at the Watersportbaan in Ghent, to rethinking the relationship between water, landscape and urbanisation in the Eurometropolis, and imagining new futures for the former Audi site in Brussels. Together with the Workshop Week and Study Trip, these projects reflect a process of learning by doing, combining critical investigation, spatial design and experimentation. Together, the three studios show that “business as usual” is no longer enough. Students translated this urgency into a wide range of future scenarios, from bold, provocative and utopian proposals for change to more concrete, policy-oriented and applicable design visions and projects.
The publication is available here as pdf.
