Today we went to decoratelier to talk about the underbelly of the city, failure as the only option and how to be nice to people. Bie Vancraeynest is coördinator of Vzw Toestand, an organisation that reactivates forgotten or empty buildings to temporary and autonomous sociocultural centres. Before that she was coördinator of the participatory art festival ENTER Brussels (2018). She’s also writing for Mo magazine and has a past in youth work in the Chicago neighbourhood in Brussels. Jozef Wouters is an autonomous artist in residence with Meg Stewart’s multidisciplinary theatre company Damaged Goods. For the last 5 years he has based various projects here in Molenbeek at Decoratelier, a collaborative space in the heart of the city.