Winter swimming in Brussels, every Sunday until April 2024 at FLOW.
La baignade hivernale à Bruxelles, tous les dimanches jusqu'en avril 2024 à FLOW.
Winterzwemmen in Brussel, elke zondag tot april 2024 bij FLOW.
SAVE THE DATE: Join us on 2 June for OUT&ABOUT to learn how FLOW came about and to get to know its creators! Even if FLOW has not made it to the final round of the EUmies Awards 2024, as a shortlisted project, it has been acknowledged as an exemplary public urban space that deserves international attention.
Past events
événements passés
AFGELOPEN EVENEMENTEN
For the occasion of the “World’s Biggest Spaghetti Meal” of Brussel Helpt 2023 to support the vzw Straatverplegers / Infirmiers de Rue asbl, our indispensable foam noodles will become real noodles!
Join our gathering on Monday 19 June to interpret the data that has been collected during our ‘Be Smart, know your Water’ workshops in Brussels!
Tell your friends and family to join for the next Be Smart, know your Water workshop at Rouge-Cloître on Sunday, 2 April! Kids (and dogs :) are welcome!
Presentations of the currently planned projects for outdoor swimming in Brussels and their context, followed by an open public debate.
Tell your friends and family to join for the next Be Smart, know your Water workshop at Rouge-Cloître on Sunday, 5 March! Kids (and dogs :) are welcome!
We are back with round 2: Join us for the second Be Smart, know your Water workshop at the ponds of Rouge-Cloître!
Finally, we can invite you once again to a SmartWater activity!
For the occasion of the “Big Brussel Helpt Spaghettislag” 2022 to support the vzw Kinumai, our indispensable foam noodles will become real noodles!
Let’s celebrate our successful crowdfunding campaign and the last day of the FLOW season 2022 on the car free Sunday!
Information session by Brussels environment about the development of the future Neerpede Park , including a natural swimming pond.
Get to know more about us and our crowdfunding campaign JE VEUX NAGER, how FLOW works and about our ambitions for the future.
We will share results of our survey about FLOW 2021 and present ideas 2022, followed by an open discussion to hear your feedback and ideas.
Have you been desperately waiting for the chance to splash around in the water on a hot summer day in Brussels? It is possible, this summer there is FLOW!
More than 1000 square metres where children can play safely, neighbours meet in the summer bar and a very local rain shower provides refreshment.
Invite one of the WATER MONSTERS to your street event to provide refreshment and water fun for young and old children.
The first exhibition that focuses on urban swimming in Switzerland, now in Berlin. POOL IS COOL is one of the featured international projects.
Expo: 20.06.2020 - 02.08.2020 at the DAZ - Deutsches Architekturzentrum.
❌ POSTPONED REPORTÉ UITGESTELD ❌
Our summer project last year showed that swimming in the natural ponds is great fun, but also not evident with regard to the fluctuating water quality. Can bathing ponds with a controlled natural water filtration be a solution?
We show you what a bathing pond could look like at Neerpede, Anderlecht!
Come join Pool is Cool in 2020! See you at Tuesday Team Time on the last Tuesday of every month for information and sign-up by our volunteer coordinator, Naomi, and the team.
The first exhibition that focuses on urban swimming in Switzerland, now in Hamburg. POOL IS COOL is invited to speak at the opening conference.
Expo: 31.01.2020 - 13.03.2020 at AIT-ArchitekturSalon in Hamburg
Come join Pool is Cool in 2020! See you at Tuesday Team Time on the last Tuesday of every month for information and sign-up by our volunteer coordinator, Naomi, and the team.
See you at “WHAT'S NEXT ?!" to learn, discuss and reflect about outdoor swimming in Brussels.
We are invited to Rotterdam to discuss water and recreation as drivers for urban development for the M4H district, a part of the harbor currently in full transformation.
POOL IS COOL hopes to see you at an Assembl'Eau! This one is especially interesting for everyone who considers joining or supporting POOL IS COOL in the future!
EXPEDITION SWIM, a bathing exploration of the ponds of Brussels! 3 swimming events at 3 ponds this summer!
Inscriptions start in July!
Summer is coming, and so is our summer project! It's still top secret, but we will tell you more next week at this special ASSEMBL'EAU!
The first exhibition that focuses on urban swimming in Switzerland, is framed by international projects that draw inspiration from the fantastic conditions in Zürich, Geneva, Bern and Basel. POOL IS COOL is one of the 6 international projects.
Expo: 24/05/2019 - 29/09/2019 at the S AM, Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel
>> Exceptionally on a Wednesday ! << POOL IS COOL hopes to see you at an Assembl'Eau, the monthly evening to meet in person and exchange ideas, remarks and dreams.
‘Den Dok’, the oldest open air swimming pool of Flanders situated in Geraardsbergen, will be closed after 130 years of existence. To support the activists of Geraardsbergen in their fight against the closure, we will present alternative international pool concepts that might be worth to be considered to open up the discussion.