RED LUXEMBOURG. The red colour of the soil in the south of Luxembourg. The red colour of the labour history in this post-industrial region. The red colour in the spatial planning instruments to guide urban development in Luxembourg. In an era when the urban has been turned into a (nearly) global condition and mixture in the city is synonymous with having a coffee bar, a supermarket and a car-sharing system at the centre of dense real-estate development, we believe it is time to grow wary and to strengthen suspicion. A series of probing essays and an project proposal explore what RED LUXEMBOURG should be about, and what it could look like, gradually evolving towards a closer co-existence between man and nature. Text: Tom Becker, Stijn Bollaert, Pascal De Decker,Matthew Gandy, Nathan Heindrichs, Markus Hesse, Sandra Jasper, Germain Meulemans, Jan Minne, David Peleman, Peter Swinnen, Erik Swyngedouw, Beatriz Van Houtte Alonso

Peter Swinnen, *1972 in Flanders, lives and works in Brussels.