‘Asfalt Billboard Coiffeur’ - Notes on Bizet Bizar

This book tells the story of Bizet Bizar, an activation of a former car park in Brussels, Belgium, between 2022 and 2024. As part of the Bizet Sustainable Neighbourhood Contract, Dear Pigs, Werkplaats Walter, and MUS-E were appointed to breathe new life into the site pending a new urban development.

In this book, we outline the development of Bizet Bizar through an alphabet of words and images. Each word opens a window onto the rich archive of the place. The abécédaire inspired six authors – Sonia Dermience, Gideon Boie, Pascal Gielen, Eleonora Campenella, Edith Wouters and Jolien Naeyaert – to reflect on the project. The ‘alphabet primer’ and essays interlock and engage in dialogue with each other. They can be read in any order: an exercise in open-endedness that invites us to reflect on and fantasize about how we can shape our social environment.