The Laboratory
Research & Development
Research with its feet on the ground. We study the questions our courts, our events and our communities raise, and turn the answers into solutions people can use.
Real problems. Rigorous answers. Room to dream.
Our research starts from real problems and real expectations: the ones people meet every day, on the court and around it.
We answer them with science, and without ever giving up what brought us here: making people dream.
CURRENT RESEARCH
05 projects
01
PLATFORM
Find a court. Share your sport gears
A platform that lets its users find sports grounds around them and pass on their sportswear, free of charge.
02
INFRASTRUCTURE
The outdoor court, rethought.
Designing the best open-air sports facilities: healthier, welcoming to every public, including people with disabilities, and attuned to the life of the city around them.
03
NEIGHBOURHOOD
Dansaert legacy
A project where sport meets art. Its aim: to help counter the gentrification of the Dansaert district while making it more beautiful.
04
ATHLETES
Life on and off the court.
How athletes and aspiring athletes manage their careers, and everything that surrounds them.
05
COMMUNITY
Many cultures. Many generations. One community.
The mechanisms that create, sustain and strengthen a multicultural, multigenerational community, in sport and in business alike.
What we find, we share
Part of our findings is free. Read it here, on this site.
ACCESS
FREE
Open access
Esther Bryce
Founder / Interior designer
Lianne Wilson
Broker
Jaden Smith
Architect
Jessica Kim
Photographer
Bball in the sky
Contact
contact@bballinthesky.com
+32.487.17.17.75
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