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Pacôme Béru, Nina Willems, Pierre Marchand and Julie Vanderhaeghen are the current managers of the Atelier Cartographique SC cooperative.

Pacôme Béru has a cross-disciplinary role at AC, including interface design and coordination. Trained as a visual artist, he has honed his skills in scientific drawing, coordinating artistic research residencies, and actively participating in the self-management of the community life of temporary housing projects. From 2020 to 2024 he also taught subjective cartography at the Design Academy Eindhoven.

Robin Keunen is a computer engineer. He is excited by the effect of programming languages on the process of problem-solving process. On leaving university, he diverged to devote his time to the social economy. He believes in worker cooperatives as a means of empowering people. emancipation. Robin is also active in Coop IT Easy.

Pierre Marchand writes software and is a researcher at UGent (S:PAM). He was co-developer of the open-source packages Scribus, Fontmatrix, Waend and Cartostation. A former visual artist and forestry technician, he is a programmer-architect for collective projects linked to digital data and its representation. His research focuses on a form of speculative programming that activates the dynamics of questioning, both in relation to the tools and to their historical and cultural dimensions, by exploring the processes involved in the formation of a digital sensibility.

Julie Vanderhaeghen is a geographer and illustrator, and a researcher at UGent (S:PAM). She has a cross-disciplinary role at AC, alternating coordination with visual and technical questions and interventions.

Nina Willems is a software developer. A teacher and mathematician by training, she is developing her software writing skills at AC and is actively involved in making the workshop a place for interdisciplinary learning and emancipation. She is active in a diverse network of Brussels collectives.

As part of its cross-disciplinary activities, the cooperative forges local links and collaborations with experts from a variety of disciplines. In particular, we have unique links with :

brat , a Brussels-based consultancy, for its cross-disciplinary approach to urban issues;

Champs-Libres , a cooperative producing free and geographic software. We are collaborating on the development of cartostation software and various cartographic projects;

Marine Declève, art historian and urban planner, EPFL doctorate in urban sciences and former AC cooperative member, for research, writing and cartography projects, particularly around the IGN's cartographic archives;

Spec uloos , with Pierre Huyghebaert and Sophie Boiron, graphic designers, typographers and cartographers, and both former AC cooperative member;

Tactic , a non-profit organisation that supports the collective appropriation of technologies, for system administration and hosting.

The cooperative operates on a horizontal model, with its members taking joint responsibility for its management.

The cooperative was founded in 2021 by Pacôme Béru, Sophie Boiron, Pierre Huyghebaert, Pierre Marchand, Julie Vanderhaeghen and Nina Willems, who were soon joined by Marine Declève.