Reclaiming the Landscape as a Common Good in Urbanized Belgium: The Protest Happening Raveel op de Leie Situated in the Socio-Political Context of the Belgian 1960s and 1970s Vrije Universiteit Brussel
During the mid-1960s, a part of the Belgian population
grew weary of the government’s flawed and untransparent
policies for environmental safeguarding and urban
planning. They argued that the landscape was reduced
to a source of economic profit and advocated for a landscape-
sensitive approach to prevent further estrangement
from the environment. Roger Raveel’s art wants audiences
to experience ...
grew weary of the government’s flawed and untransparent
policies for environmental safeguarding and urban
planning. They argued that the landscape was reduced
to a source of economic profit and advocated for a landscape-
sensitive approach to prevent further estrangement
from the environment. Roger Raveel’s art wants audiences
to experience ...