Built around connectors, aluminium tubes, bicycle trailers and lightweight attachments, it can be assembled into temporary structures for play, gathering, workshop use, small events or simple occupation of a site. The point is not to impose one finished form, but to keep a place open to change through a system that can move, land and be reconfigured as needed.

Mobil has been developed with Cultureghem and a lot of different partners through repeated tests in Brussels. Assembly, transport, stability, storage and repair are all part of the design work. The project is shaped as much by what happens in use as by drawings or prototypes.

## What the system includes

The basic system is only one part of the project. Over time, Mobil has expanded into a wider kit:

- trailers that also work as tables, podiums or transport devices
- a structural system of tubes and injection moulded connectors
- textile coverings and spatial add-ons
- inflatable elements for seating, play or temporary enclosure
- sound, power and storage elements that extend what the setup can do on site

## How it develops

Mobil is not a finished product. It is a working framework for prototyping in public: building, testing, adjusting and trying again. Some parts stay because they are clear and robust. Others are simplified, rebuilt or dropped.

This open process is central to the project. It keeps the system practical, adaptable and grounded in real use rather than fixed too early into one scenario.

## Shared use

Mobil is also meant to be transferable. Documentation, graphic marking, training and simple assembly logic are part of the trajectory, because the aim is not only to build structures, but to make the system easier for others to use, maintain and develop further over time.
We are currently developping a wiki base to share true access to the entire project: https://mobil.brussels/wiki.


Mobil is an evolving kit of trailers, connectors, structures and add-ons for temporary use in shared space. Developed with Cultureghem and tested in Brussels, it supports building, play, gathering and public activation without fixing a site into one permanent layout.

Mobil is a modular public-space system by Fors for collective building, testing and activation.

A modular construction system for testing and activating shared space together.

Mobil


REUS(in) started as a search for how a giant figure for Koekelberg could take shape from local stories, voices and experiences rather than from a fixed character designed in advance. Through workshops and encounters in the neighbourhood, a first inflatable form emerged, followed by a first public presentation.

In a second phase, the project shifted from form to voice. Together with Alex De Force, REUS(in) developed into an interactive audio story for young people, using sound, fiction and choice to make questions around the city and living together tangible.

At its core, REUS(in) is about claiming space for those who are too often overlooked or unheard. The giant becomes a way to take up room, to appear at full scale, and to give presence to stories that are not usually centred in public space.

REUS(in) moves between inflatable structure, public installation and narrative tool.


REUS(in) began with workshops and encounters in the neighbourhood, from which a first inflatable form emerged, followed by a first public presentation. In a second phase, the project shifted from form to voice. Together with Alex De Force, it developed into an interactive audio story for young people, using sound, fiction and choice to make questions around the city and living together tangible.

REUS(in) is a Koekelberg project by Fors that moved from a first inflatable giant to an interactive audio story for young people.

REUS(in) started as a search for how a giant figure for Koekelberg could take shape from local stories, voices and experiences rather than from a fixed character designed in advance.

REUS(in)


Mobile Kitchens is a long-term line of transportable cooking setups developed through different partners, places and uses since 2014. Each version responds to a specific context while remaining part of the same evolving project family and testing the project’s core questions around mobility, setup and use.


Mobile Kitchens is a long-term project exploring how cooking infrastructure can move between places, contexts and forms of use. Since 2014, it has developed through a series of versions rather than one fixed object. Each version responds to a specific partner, site or mode of working, while continuing the same broader line of research into transport, setup, workflow and collective use.

Mobile Kitchens is a long-term Fors project that develops transportable cooking setups across multiple versions.

A long-term project exploring how cooking infrastructure can move, adapt and support public use.

Mobile Kitchens


PLAYBOX is a compact project about play as spatial activation.

Built as a mobile intervention tool, it creates simple entry points for use, encounter and collective action in shared space. It works through direct interaction rather than instructions.

Across versions and contexts, PLAYBOX stayed focused on one thing: making a site usable in another way, fast.


PLAYBOX is a lightweight intervention tool designed to trigger play, encounter and temporary use in public space. It focuses on direct use, clear interaction and adaptable deployment in different contexts.

PLAYBOX is a mobile public-space intervention by Fors focused on play and collective use.

A playful mobile setup for activating shared space through simple collective actions.

PLAYBOX


BioImagens was developed within ECOlabs together with Emmanuel Dos Santos, in partnership with Casa da Imagem and the Fine Arts School of Porto University. The project explored how photographic development could become more ecological, more mobile and more public.

Instead of staying inside a university lab, BioImagens took image-making into public space through a transportable photo development setup. Using origami and kirigami principles, the lab was designed as a foldable structure that could be moved, opened and adapted in use.

The development process was split into separate stages and worked with non-toxic, water-based solutions. What mattered was not only the object itself, but the possibility it opened up: a lighter, more accessible and more sustainable way of working with analogue photography.

BioImagens brought together prototyping, ecological thinking and public access in one mobile system. It was both a tool and a proposition for how image development could be done otherwise.


BioImagens was developed within ECOlabs with Emmanuel Dos Santos, in partnership with Casa da Imagem and the Fine Arts School of Porto University. The project explored how photographic development could become more ecological, more mobile and more public through a foldable transportable lab and non-toxic water-based processes.

BioImagens is a 2022 prototyping project by Fors developed in the ECOlabs context.

A mobile, ecological photo development setup that brought analogue image-making into public space.

BioImagens


The Tokyo residency was a period of observation, mapping and early testing around the use of shared space in the city. The initial intention was to develop a small physical intervention for public space: a device that could invite encounter or alter how a place is used.

Very quickly it became clear that this approach collided with the local context. Public space in Tokyo operates through a dense system of implicit rules, permissions and sensitivities. Taking space physically, even in small ways, often meets resistance.

The residency therefore shifted direction. Instead of inserting a physical object, the research turned toward the invisible layers that already structure behaviour in the city, particularly surveillance infrastructures and the ways people respond to them.

Experiments began around the use of video surveillance footage and the possibility of adding a virtual, game-like layer that could redirect attention and create moments of encounter without occupying space materially.

The residency did not lead to a single finished work. Its value lies in the shift it produced: from physical intervention to working with the existing informational and behavioural systems that shape urban space.


A research residency in Tokyo that shifted from a planned physical intervention toward surveillance, behaviour and the invisible systems shaping shared space.

A Tokyo research residency focused on shared space, surveillance and the shift away from physical intervention.

Observation, mapping and early testing in Tokyo shifted the research from physical intervention toward surveillance and behavioural systems.

Tokyo Residency


KETMET Muzique is a 2017 project centered on music in public space.

The project focuses on direct activation: making a situation where people can gather, listen, use and shape the moment together.

It sits in the line of Fors projects where a simple setup can quickly shift the use of a site.


KETMET Muzique is a 2017 intervention in public space. It explores how music-based setups can trigger shared use, temporary gathering and local exchange without relying on heavy infrastructure.

KETMET Muzique is a 2017 public-space intervention by Fors.

A public-space music intervention built around presence, use and neighbourhood dynamics.

KETMET Muzique


DOTS Phone is a phone-based prototype developed within the broader DOT tool. It uses the familiar logic of the telephone to support accessible conversations in care contexts and to gather everyday signals, wishes and needs.

Rather than adding another digital layer, the project works with a device people already understand. The aim is to make interaction easier to approach and easier to use in practice.

Early tests showed that even short conversations can produce relevant input around routines, preferences, autonomy and the feeling of being at home. DOTS Phone is still a rough prototype, but it already suggests a clearer way of listening within care settings.


DOTS Phone is a phone-based prototype within the broader DOT tool. It uses the familiar logic of the telephone to support accessible conversations in care settings and to gather residents' wishes, needs and everyday signals.

DOTS Phone is a phone-based prototype within the DOT tool that helps gather resident input in care contexts.

A phone-based prototype for accessible conversation in care contexts.

DOTS Phone


Dance Connect is a mobile dance studio developed for Leon, whose participatory dance practice works with diverse groups across Brussels. The project provides a transportable setup for rehearsal, workshops and collective activity in changing environments.

Instead of asking participants to come to a fixed studio, the infrastructure can travel to them. This allows Leon to bring dance activity directly into care settings, neighbourhood contexts and public space.

Built as a modular system, Dance Connect combines floor, sound, shelter, power and basic hospitality in one mobile setup. It allows dance to travel, land and temporarily reshape a site.


Dance Connect is a mobile dance studio developed for Leon, whose participatory dance practice works with diverse groups across Brussels. The project provides a transportable setup for rehearsal, workshops and collective activity in changing environments.

Dance Connect is a mobile dance studio by Fors for Leon, developed as transportable infrastructure for dance across Brussels.

A mobile dance studio developed for Leon as a transportable setup for rehearsal, workshops and collective activity.

Dance Connect


Rue de la Braie was developed for a residential street in central Brussels that kept being used like a parking strip. Although the street had been redesigned as a woonerf, illegal parking continued to override its intended use.

The project responded with a series of fifteen benches designed to make parking impossible and return the street to everyday public life. Their irregular forms gave the intervention a strong spatial presence, but the logic was practical: change the layout, change the behaviour.

Assembled at Recyclart Fabrik from a design by Yannick Roels, the benches created room for sitting, waiting and informal occupation in a street used daily by schoolchildren and local residents. The project treated furniture not as an accessory, but as an active tool in shaping how shared space works.


Rue de la Braie was developed for a residential street in central Brussels where illegal parking kept overriding the intended use of a woonerf. Through fifteen irregular benches, the project made parking impossible and returned the street to sitting, waiting and informal occupation.

Rue de la Braie is a public-space bench intervention by Fors in Brussels.

A bench-based street intervention that blocked illegal parking and reopened Rue de la Braie for everyday public use.

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