Our mission
We shape the sustainable living environments of tomorrow, through resilient landscapes and vibrant urban environments, from sketch design to implementation and with a positive social impact.
We design resilient landscapes as a powerful response to the social challenges of tomorrow, such as climate change, declining biodiversity, decreasing water security, congested open space, and threatened heritage.
We create vibrant urban environments to tackle challenges such as increasing urbanisation, growing social inequality, and increasing mobility.
We opt for an integrated approach in which sustainability and the creation of social added value are a priority. To achieve this, we create and work in an innovative environment, a resilient environment and a cooperative environment.
OMGEVING is an innovation hub
New ideas and concepts that are born within our innovation hub contribute to achieving our mission: shaping the sustainable living environments of tomorrow. We develop these ideas and concepts into successful, new or improved products, working methods or spatial solutions and integrate them into our operations and services.
We stimulate a working culture where everyone can deploy their talents from their own curiosity, creativity, interest or knowledge and develop them into ideas that lead to innovation in our projects and our operation. For us, training, knowledge sharing, and applied research are an absolute requirement for accelerating innovation to reach new insights.
We firmly believe that the most innovative ideas emerge from a multidisciplinary view and an understanding of societal trends. We find this expertise in an innovative (inter)national network. We attach great importance to exchanging knowledge and experience with the professional world, producers, (inter)national partners, and experts.
Test garden
Since 2024, OMGEVING has been cultivating its own test garden, a living laboratory where innovation quite literally takes root. Here, we roll up our sleeves to explore innovative planting concepts and experiment with differentiated management strategies. By observing, comparing, and testing directly on site, we actively deepen our expertise. We study the impact of various planting and sowing techniques, soil preparations, and substrates, gaining handson insights that directly feed into our design practice.
As a landscape and urban design office, working closely with plants is essential to us. Our test garden allows us to refine our understanding of plant behaviour, resilience, and longterm performance. This enables us to create designs that are not only visually compelling, but also sustainable, biodiverse, and meticulously detailed.
The test garden is our place to test, learn, and grow, so that every project can flourish.
For more information, please email testtuin@omgeving.be
Apple harvest
October 2025
Mowing flower-rich grasslands
July 2025
Mass flowering of annuals
June 2025
Planting trees
April 2025
Creating seedbeds
October 2024
Soil preparation
September 2024
Site visit
April 2024
Partner day
September 2025
Drone images
June 2025
Spring party
May 2025
Planting shrubs
February 2025
Sowing flower-rich grasslands
October 2024
Clearing the orchard
June 2024
OMGEVING is socially committed
We limit our impact on the living environment. OMGEVING conveys its social commitment as a climate-adaptive design office in projects as well as in the internal organisation. The infrastructure we use is smart and well thought out: the buildings and office equipment are responsible and do not have a negative impact on the climate. The choice of transport modes and the consideration given to travel are conscious. At the same time, we expects our employees to have a climate-adaptive design attitude.
We are a design office that makes a positive contribution to the living environment through our projects. Therefore, we create design solutions that improve the living environment in terms of climate, sustainability and social cohesion. Design solutions are contextual, insightful and future-proof. This commitment is embedded into every stage of the process, from research to design to implementation, and is also reflected in OMGEVING’s self-critical attitude towards the projects we take on and develop as a design office. We deliberately focus on projects that generate added value for society.
OMGEVING cultivates cooperation
We embed our cooperative mindset in the organisation of the office through a transparent and low-threshold shareholder structure. In our horizontal organisational structure, dialogue and cross-pollination are key. As a cooperative organisation, we are a pioneer. Today, about half of the employees are partners. This ensures a high level of commitment: together we work towards our common mission and values.
In and between project teams we strive for optimal cooperation. Not one brain is responsible for the sophisticated result of a project, but rather the collaboration between many individuals. We embrace diversity and focus on developing talents in a secure OMGEVING. Everyone gets the opportunity to contribute to internal working groups to improve our work as well as our way of working.
From our cooperative, participative and inclusive mindset, we strategically choose our external partners who strengthen our collaborative operation.
Are you curious to see how our projects reflect these core values?
