Cobalt

The social experiment

How can we make community in the face of common challenges when interests diverge?

COBALT is an immersive and participatory social experience. It places participants at the heart of the social, economic and ecological issues of our time.

Through role-playing highlighting divergent interests, the experience seeks to open up dialogue, change perspective, awaken a sense of global citizenship and stimulate individual and collective power to act.

An innovative and powerful way to foster dialogue

A genuine tool for cultural mediation, the experiment is an innovative and powerful way to open up debate and reflection on sensitive subjects. It lasts about 2 hours and is followed by a discussion with the audience, allowing analysis of reactions and feelings, and exploration of the issues addressed. The experience can also lead to a series of workshops or consulting within your organization/company to identify measures to address various issues related to:

  • Human (and cultural) rights
  • Social cohesion and conflict prevention
  • International cooperation
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Arts and citizenship
  • Economic and energetic dependencies

  • Democracy and governance

  • Ressources exploitation

  • Ecology and environmental impacts

  • Global citizenshhip and interdependance

Over a thousand participants in Europe and Africa

 

Grand Hospice Bruxelles 2024

In collaboration with the NGO CEC and the support of FWB

ULB Bruxelles 2024

En collaboration avec ULB Cooperation et avec le soutien de la FWB.

Festival Rêve Général - Université de Liège - 2024

Avec le soutien de la FWB.

Université de Lubumbashi - Juin 2024

En collaboration avec Enabel, WBI et l’école de théâtre de l’UNILU.

Résidence consulaire de Belgique - Lubumbashi 2024

Avec le soutien du Consulat de Belgique, d’Enabel et de WBI.

The Shift - La tricoterie, Bruxelles 2024

En collaboration avec The Shift Belgique

OECD Forum for Responsible Mineral Supply Chains - Paris 2025

Avec le soutien d’EPRM

Ecole Supérieure des Arts de Saint-Luc - Brussels 2025

In collaboration with the NGO CEC

Ukamili and University of Lubumbashi - Lubumbashi 2025

With the support of WBI and ENABEL, and in collaboration with ULB Coopération, UNILU and UKAMILI.

For diverse contexts and sectors

With/for the partner and its audience

Each experiment is built on the basis of research and meetings with stakeholders and experts on the subject(s), to offer a “tailor-made” experience rooted in the reality on the ground. The customer/partner and/or their representatives are involved in the co-construction process, participating as spectators. The approach and scenario can be adapted to different themes, sectors, audiences and environments.

As part of an activity of:

  • Team Building
  • Conferences/forums
  • Training/workshops
  • Sensitisation campaign
  • Mediation workshops

  • Festivals

  • Academic and transdisciplinary programs

For all audiences (30 to 300+)

As part of an activity of:

  • Entreprises.
  • Public and private, local and international institutions.
  • Civil society organisation
  • Cooperation agencies
  • General public (accompanied children)

  • Diplomacy.

  • High schools and universities
  • Continuing education sector.

A few feedbacks

Bravo à toute l’équipe!! Super bien joué et certainement continuez a créer cet impact de cette façon creative 👏👏👏

Delphine - The Shift - Bruxelles

I already miss the energy and power of the group. But the week ends with a smile, thanks to you. Thank you 🙏🏾✨

Gloria - ULB - Bruxelles

It was an unforgettable experience for me! Thank you again, have a safe trip home, and I hope to see you again soon…

Sasha - Université de Lubumbashi

When fiction plays along with reality, it breaks with convention and leads the audience to no longer believe that the event unfolding before their eyes is theatre, but rather an event rooted in reality.

Trésor - Université de Lubumbashi

‘This session was not just an event, but the beginning of a deeper conversation about justice, inclusion and transformation in the mining sector.’

EPRM - Forum de l'OCDE - Paris

I would like to congratulate you once again on the work you have done and, above all, on the positive psychological and mental impact your presentation has had on the participants. It was just fantastic. I can’t wait to move on to the next stage… Well done, it’s great work.

Cheikh Ahmed - Ukamili - Lubumbashi

This project is incredible, you are incredible !

Thank you for allowing me to discover this social experience, first as a participant and now as a collaborator. Both are extremely interesting roles to experience and live out!

Je vous souhaite le meilleur pour la suite…

Nicole - The Shift - Bruxelles

Merci de nous avoir embarqués Charlie et moi. Ravis et touché en ce qui me concerne; je n’ai pas découvert le sujet, vécu et raconté par tellement de partenaires dans mon boulot, mais ressenti comme jamais. Vivement la sortie du film de Bernadette. Bise

Hervé - Festival Rêve Général - Liège