2 October 2026
Johan Leman
Anyone who has worked in the social sector for long enough knows that some projects have a good chance of succeeding or can count on being sustainable, while others do […]
25 September 2026
Johan Leman
In some working-class neighborhoods, street culture is particularly dominant among certain groups of young men. It is also this street culture that causes some areas to become, as it were, […]
14 September 2026
Johan Leman
As far as I am concerned, the clearest cause one can point to when explaining whether a country performs well or poorly in the PISA results is the functioning of […]
2 September 2026
Johan Leman
“L’essere odiati fa odiare.” (P.P. Pasolini, 16 June 1968) Put more generally: Being hated oneself, or feeling that one is the object of hatred (social, familial or otherwise), makes people […]
16 July 2026
Johan Leman
It is not my intention with this blog to already tell everything about what we have heard from new Italo-Brussels residents based on 77 interviews while preparing the exhibition Italo2000 […]
14 July 2026
Johan Leman
An interesting study on urban heat islands in Italy’s major cities has recently been published. The research project, MIRIFICUS (Monitoraggio degli Interventi di RIForestazione per l’Isola di Calore Urbana tramite […]
8 July 2026
Johan Leman
Summer brings to mind holidays, distant journeys, but also rest and the opportunity simply to be “at home” for a while. An oasis in the midst of a working year. […]
2 July 2026
Johan Leman
If you were to ask me, after half a century of living in Brussels’ canal zone, how I would describe the area in just two words, I would call it […]
29 June 2026
Johan Leman
In discussions about multiculturalism, it is striking how often people reject or glorify cultures as if they were homogeneous entities. Isn’t the truth rather that cultures consist of many different […]
24 June 2026
Johan Leman
Last Monday, at the MMM Museum, we had a conversation with Daniele Sanzone, a rock musician and author from Scampia, arguably the most notorious neighborhood in Naples, feared for its […]