Communa

Are you looking to join an ambitious adventure, a close-knit team and an innovative project to help reinvent the city? Communa transforms empty buildings into socio-cultural spaces and housing, managed with their communities and open to their neighbourhoods. Since 2013, they have distinguished themselves in temporary occupation for social purposes and transitional urbanism by giving new life to a dozen places, housing 350 people and supporting more than 200 associative or social and circular economy projects. Imagine temporarily occupied places that become laboratories where we experiment with ways of living, ways of thinking and organizing life in the city... 🌿🏢

Within the non-profit organisation, they operate in shared governance and collective intelligence. This means that each employee influences the "how-we-work-together" and contributes to co-constructing the vision and strategy of the non-profit organisation. They have defined roles and decision-making powers, but no hierarchy. And it works very well! This internal organization is based on co-responsibility, trust, transparency and benevolence. This governance is the strength of Communa. They believe that this type of organization based on trust helps to change the world!

Communa is also an international network. In 2018, they discovered a similar organization in Riga, Latvia. This meeting inspired the creation of the STUN ( Social Transformative Use Network) in 2019, allowing enriching exchanges across Europe and even further afield. Discovering new horizons, training (while not forgetting to have fun), that's their joyful mantra! 🌍

With the federation of dozens of inspiring, cultural and solidarity local initiatives and a reach that grows every day, Communa does its best to support sustainable and solidarity initiatives in different districts of Brussels. Their approach is simple: see potential where others only see walls.

Their favourite phrase: turning constraints into opportunities!