LaMouseion - The Unthinkable Experiment

@lamouseion

Knowledge experiment by @koen.vanmechelen to give a voice to the new generation. Come explore the meaning of “Future Garden” and share your insights.
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Exciting news from one of our LaMouseion alumni participants! Congratulations to Margot Winters on winning the prestigious 2025 Heinz Stoewer Space Award @aetudelft , which recognizes outstanding achievements in space engineering and innovation. Margot designed the FLARE Suit, an advanced radiation vest for astronauts that improves comfort, fit, and adaptability for long-term missions. Thank you, Margot, for also sharing your ideas with us during The Unthinkable Experience at @labiomista . We look forward to seeing all the great things you will accomplish! #HeinzStoewerAward #LABIOMISTA #TheUnthinkableExperience #WomenInSTEM #SpaceEngineering #LaMouseionAlumni #TheFutureOfEducation #UHasselt #PXL
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11 months ago
Lamouseion — The Unthinkable Experiment is Nominated for Museum Curiosity of the Year And we Need Your Vote! Museumpass is on the hunt for the next “Museumcuriositeit van het Jaar” – and among timeless paintings, stunning art-nouveau architecture, and hidden gems across Belgian museums, one living masterpiece truly stands out: Lamouseion — The Unthinkable Experiment by artist Koen Vanmechelen. Imagine a place where there are no rules for ideas. Where you break free of fixed structures and where the unthinkable suddenly does become possible. LaMouseion is such a place, born from the vision of artist Koen Vanmechelen. Located in the 24-hectare artwork LABIOMISTA, on the border between the city and the jungle, between the inhabited world and wild nature. LaMouseion is no ordinary work of art. LaMouseion is a village of the future. Here young people, thinkers and dreamers come together to experiment and learn. They do so in a thinkbox, a space where the only rule is: think differently. Deadline: May 18 at 12:00 PM https://www.weekvandebelgischemusea.be/nl-NL/project/labiomista-lamouseion-het-ondenkbare-experiment?tab=over-dit-werk Ps; Koen’s Cosmopolitan Chicken Project is also nominated for a different category; ‘Museum Piece of the Year’ So please also vote in this category; https://www.weekvandebelgischemusea.be/nl-NL/project/labiomista-cosmopolitan-chicken-project?tab=over-dit-werk Cosmopolitan Chicken Project © Koen Vanmechelen Photo by Kris Vervaeke
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1 year ago
Throwback to this amazing gathering of minds in Vienna ✨ On December 10th, participants of The Unthinkable Experiment – Chapter Future Garden shared their experiences and insights with students of the Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. This symbolic day, marking International Human Rights Day, celebrated the power of connection, innovation, and hope. The evening culminated in an interactive panel discussion featuring Manfred Nowak (Co-Founder and Program Director of the Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights), Verena Benedict-Orlicek (Head of Cooperations, Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights), the Chapter Future Garden participants, and @goverachido – the pythia of this chapter and social entrepreneur and @koen.vanmechelen . Together, we reflected deeply on how the unthinkable can inspire and shape a better future. @dieangewandte @appliedhumanrights
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1 year ago
Throwback - part 2 ;) - to 5th December, when the ideas of The Unthinkable Experiment chapter Future Garden (summer 2024, Belgium) traveled with the students to Lisbon. In this final stage, during The Seeds Workshop, they shared their co-creations, their experience and knowledge with other students at @nova_fcsh - to discuss and discover them again. Artist @koen.vanmechelen and chapter Future Garden’s Pythia @goverachido joined the group and formed a sounding board for their ideas. Stay tuned to see how The Unthinkable Experiment travels to Vienna…
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Throwback to 5th December, when the ideas of The Unthinkable Experiment chapter Future Garden (summer 2024, Belgium) traveled with the students to Lisbon. In this final stage, during The Seeds Workshop, they shared their co-creations, their experience and knowledge with other students at @nova_fcsh - to discuss and discover them again. Artist @koen.vanmechelen and chapter Future Garden’s Pythia @goverachido joined the group and formed a sounding board for their ideas. Stay tuned to see how The Unthinkable Experiment travels to Vienna… @appliedhumanrights @dieangewandte What happened after The Unthinkable Experiment Chapter Future Garden, July 2024? The edition brought together young people from 10 countries in the EU, South America, Asia and Africa. They came from diverse directions, disciplines and social contexts. The project is built up out of different sessions; it started with an ideation phase in smaller groups, afterwards the participants came together for the inspiration, cross-fertilisation and co-creation session. They consolidated and translated their new insights and knowledge into various media and communication forms. The co-creation session ended with a vernissage in which participants presented and tested their (new) knowledge, ideas, creations and projects to the Unthinkable Experiment alumni, neighborhood partners and a network of friends and family. In this final stage, the ideas of the Vernissage travel with the students to different locations, where they will be discussed and discovered again. Two sessions will take place; one in Lisbon in collaboration with NOVA FCSH and one in Vienna, in collaboration with the Vienna Masters in Applied Human Rights - The University of Applied Arts Vienna and Angewandte Performance Laboratory - APL.
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On Saturday, September 21, we welcomed to @labiomista a group of young people from Winterslag (Genk, BE). In 4 different sessions they discover their entrepreneurial skills and build their future together. This project runs in collaboration with Mosque Hassan Ebno Tabit, @educathorgenk , @groepintrovzw . For a first session, they worked from @lamouseion . In a next session, they will engage with artist @koen.vanmechelen and social entrepreneur @goverachido , on creative thinking, entrepreneurship and social engagement. More soon!
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We wrapped up our latest edition of The Unthinkable Experiment 🪴 Chapter Future Garden Our participants connected on so many levels and found hope for the future together; alongside mesmerizing performances during their vernissage, they drafted a manifesto together; for a durable future, for harmonious coexistence and leaving the old to embrace the new; for a future garden rooted in love, compassion, and the unwavering belief in the inherent worth of every - human - being 💚 The Unthinkable Experiment ends for now at @LABIOMISTA but continues in Portugal and Austria. To connect people and to build together a library for the future 🙏 Thank you to all who made this possible ✨ The Unthinkable Experiment, Chapter Future Garden, 2024 #theunthinkableexperiment #chapterfuturegarden @koen.vanmechelen @labiomista @VUBrussel @ulbruxelles @dieangewandte @appliedhumanrights @mba1 @nova_fcsh @innoviris.brussels @european_youth_eu @jintvzw @wekonekt.brussels
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We wrapped up our latest edition of The Unthinkable Experiment 🪴 Chapter Future Garden Our participants connected on so many levels and found hope for the future together; alongside mesmerizing performances during their vernissage, they drafted a manifesto together; for a durable future, for harmonious coexistence and leaving the old to embrace the new; for a future garden rooted in love, compassion, and the unwavering belief in the inherent worth of every - human - being 💚 The Unthinkable Experiment ends for now at @LABIOMISTA but continues in Portugal and Austria. To connect people and to build together a library for the future 🙏 Thank you to all who made this possible ✨ The Unthinkable Experiment, Chapter Future Garden, 2024 #theunthinkableexperiment #chapterfuturegarden @koen.vanmechelen @labiomista @VUBrussel @ulbruxelles @dieangewandte @appliedhumanrights @mba1 @nova_fcsh @innoviris.brussels @european_youth_eu @jintvzw @wekonekt.brussels
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We wrapped up our latest edition of The Unthinkable Experiment 🪴 Chapter Future Garden Our participants connected on so many levels and found hope for the future together; alongside mesmerizing performances during their vernissage, they drafted a manifesto together; for a durable future, for harmonious coexistence and leaving the old to embrace the new; for a future garden rooted in love, compassion, and the unwavering belief in the inherent worth of every - human - being 💚 The Unthinkable Experiment ends for now at @LABIOMISTA but continues in Portugal and Austria. To connect people and to build together a library for the future 🙏 Thank you to all who made this possible ✨ The Unthinkable Experiment, Chapter Future Garden, 2024 #theunthinkableexperiment #chapterfuturegarden @koen.vanmechelen @labiomista @VUBrussel @ulbruxelles @dieangewandte @appliedhumanrights @mba1 @nova_fcsh @innoviris.brussels @european_youth_eu @jintvzw @wekonekt.brussels
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1 year ago
We wrapped up our latest edition of The Unthinkable Experiment 🪴 Chapter Future Garden Our participants connected on so many levels and found hope for the future together; alongside mesmerizing performances during their vernissage, they drafted a manifesto together; for a durable future, for harmonious coexistence and leaving the old to embrace the new; for a future garden rooted in love, compassion, and the unwavering belief in the inherent worth of every - human - being 💚 The Unthinkable Experiment ends for now at @LABIOMISTA but continues in Portugal and Austria. To connect people and to build together a library for the future 🙏 Thank you to all who made this possible ✨ The Unthinkable Experiment, Chapter Future Garden, 2024 #theunthinkableexperiment #chapterfuturegarden @koen.vanmechelen @labiomista @VUBrussel @ulbruxelles @dieangewandte @appliedhumanrights @mba1 @nova_fcsh @innoviris.brussels @european_youth_eu @jintvzw @wekonekt.brussels
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1 year ago
We wrapped up our latest edition of The Unthinkable Experiment 🪴 Chapter Future Garden Our participants connected on so many levels and found hope for the future together; alongside mesmerizing performances during their vernissage, they drafted a manifesto together; for a durable future, for harmonious coexistence and leaving the old to embrace the new; for a future garden rooted in love, compassion, and the unwavering belief in the inherent worth of every - human - being 💚 The Unthinkable Experiment ends for now at @LABIOMISTA but continues in Portugal and Austria. To connect people and to build together a library for the future 🙏 Thank you to all who made this possible ✨ The Unthinkable Experiment, Chapter Future Garden, 2024 #theunthinkableexperiment #chapterfuturegarden @koen.vanmechelen @labiomista @VUBrussel @ulbruxelles @dieangewandte @appliedhumanrights @mba1 @nova_fcsh @innoviris.brussels @european_youth_eu @jintvzw @wekonekt.brussels
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1 year ago
We wrapped up our latest edition of The Unthinkable Experiment 🪴 Chapter Future Garden Our participants connected on so many levels and found hope for the future together; alongside mesmerizing performances during their vernissage, they drafted a manifesto together; for a durable future, for harmonious coexistence and leaving the old to embrace the new; for a future garden rooted in love, compassion, and the unwavering belief in the inherent worth of every - human - being 💚 The Unthinkable Experiment ends for now at @LABIOMISTA but continues in Portugal and Austria. To connect people and to build together a library for the future 🙏 Thank you to all who made this possible ✨ The Unthinkable Experiment, Chapter Future Garden, 2024 #theunthinkableexperiment #chapterfuturegarden @koen.vanmechelen @labiomista @VUBrussel @ulbruxelles @dieangewandte @appliedhumanrights @mba1 @nova_fcsh @innoviris.brussels @european_youth_eu @jintvzw @wekonekt.brussels
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1 year ago