35 Meridians of Radical Rituals

Forty-Five Degrees

Ongoing research on the inventiveness of everyday life, new hybrid vernaculars and communal space-making in Europe.

The Distributed Cooperative

TEN Studio & Alexis Kalagas

Our project reimagines how a mixed-use cooperative housing development could be conceived at a neighborhood scale.

Critical Practice

Critical Practice

A series of conversations with European practitioners who challenge the way we design today

Institute for linear Research

Institute for Linear Research

An open platform researching contemporary landscapes by walking on a straight line around the globe

A Smart Common

ECKIC, DML, CST

A prototype smart contract for democratising investment in urban commons.

UNFOLDING PAVILION

Daniel Tudor Munteanu, Davide Tommaso Ferrando, Sara Favargiotti. With Ana Victoria Munteanu, Eliza Rabiniuc Mocanu, Magda Vieriu, Octavian Hrebenciuc

Guerrilla curating as a way to question the relationship between architecture, society and the city.

The Wanderer

Monique Besten

an entity travels the world of ideas and takes shape, changes appearance according to the places “it” spends time in

Manifesto for unexpected architectures

Diego Sologuren + Brad Downey

Micro architecture projects which explore alternative time-space relationships

Mies. TV: Architecture Backstage

Mies. TV

Sharing stories from the world of architecture, reaching people within and beyond the common discourse.

An Anticipatory Theory of Ruin Ecology

Jason Rhys Parry

In an age where ruined buildings are becoming unlikely refuges for endangered species, architects should begin designing buildings with an eye towards their future existence as hotspots for biodiversity.

ACAN

Architects Climate Action Network

ACAN is a network of individuals within architecture who are taking action to address climate and ecological breakdown.

Future Histories

Will Jennings

A series of occasionally intersecting future histories, looking back at where it all went right / all went wrong / all could have been different, using the work of six emergent creatives to explore our current near-future through the lens of environment, social cohesivity and urgency of response.

POETICS FOR THE UNCERTAIN

Constantinos Marcou

From Aristotle’s Poetics to Nicolas Bourriaud’s “relational aesthetics”, the Architectural image and the act of drawing as a process can create a threshold between the “real” and the “imaginary” in which knowledge, interaction and problematics of a specific context, play an important role.

Drowned in Neretva River

Un-war space lab

Exploring spatial, ecological, political and material formations of post-war landscape system of the Neretva river

Biblioteca Abierta (Free library)

Proyecto Colectivo

This project aims to create libraries without buildings, just through the performative action of build.

Fables and Constructions

Martina Freitagová & Lucie Kohoutová

Mosaic of fictional reports covering experiences and stories by imaginary users of the selected architectural projects

Spaces like Actions

Spaces like Actions

Spaces like Actions is a collective research project over the cultural components of space.

Unsent Postcard

Giorgia Scognamiglio & Lorenzo Zandri

Alternative narratives of spaces and architectures to reimagine the future of tourism

Art(i)leria

Elian Stefa

The demilitarisation of an abandoned bunker island becomes fertile ground for creative settlements.

Deplorable Framework

Matthew Gregorowski

Reconsider the perception, governance, and inhabitation of the British countryside after Brexit.

Under Construction

Norell/Rodhe

Under Construction imagines a city that is constantly being rebuilt using the same stock of materials.

Neue Bauakademie Berlin

Hendrik Brinkmann

A contribution to the ongoing debate on reconstruction by a nascent architect

Hope on Water

SO?

Istanbul has privatized its public spaces which were supposed to be used after earthquake, can water be the solution?

Queer Nature

Céline Baumann

This ongoing investigation explores the little known, disregarded, and rare intimate behaviour of nature. It questions the place of queerness in the society in general and in the architectural world in particular.

S’lowtecture

Tomasz Broma

A self-organizing structure based on an algorithm that generates personalized housing units.

Children know

Architectural thinking school for children

33 pupils 7-13 y.o. made their theories about the future of Minsk and it's architecture

Hymenoplastic Futures

feminist architecture collaborative

Multiscalar bodily architectures exceed the limits of gender and power towards their own futures.

Air Revert

Skrei

The idea is to prove a simple lo-tech system that detoxicates and depolutes indoor environments by means of a special material combined with few climatizing devices.

Idles

Bora Baboci

Concurrently leftovers and newborns, idles await to be transformed

Coastland

Miruna Dunu

The short film Coastland envisions an ambitious and optimistic yet somewhat defective architecture.

If These Walls Could Talk

RESOLVE

What if walls did not separate us, but brought us together?

The Political Church

Martin Pohl with: Konrad Angermüller (graphic design), Mathias Schmitt & Michael Ott (SCHMOTT, photography) and Michael Kraus

THE POLITICAL CHURCH calls for the necessity of a productive space of conflict and contemporary architectural tools

Foreign Architecture as Domestic Policy

CIVIL ARCHITECTURE

FADP represents an exercise in branding a nation and securing a market for a country’s exports.

Scenographies of Power

Maite Borjabad

A critical view on how architecture materializes legal frameworks and political apparatuses.

Black Islands

Taller de Casquería

“Black Islands” delves into the influence of new ways of describing reality in the generation of new landscapes, borders and appropriation processes.

Institute for Autonomous Urbanism

Institute for Autonomous Urbanism

The disruptive developments of dispersed infrastructure frames a moment in time where we can fundamentally reconceive of how we make, fund, and even conceptualize the world that surrounds us and how we engage with the possibilities of a new Autonomous Urbanism

Architecture vs Politics

TAB collective

Architecture should take a role in criticising political habits that influence the built environment and social life.

Symbiocene

Trajna Collective

Can we employ the symbolic and material qualities of invasive plants to create thriving landscapes of multispecies coexistence?

In Articulo Mortis

Proyector

After death, architecture is no longer a building, but a story to be told.

DOMA

Maksym Rokmaniko, Francesco Sebregondi, Enrico Zago, Melissa Frost

DOMA is a blockchain-based, affordable housing platform that turns its users into home owners

DeGrowth Institute

METASITU

DeGrowth Institute sources collective knowledge about the future of shrinking cities.

Transcribe

Space Transcribers

Transcribing the Extraordinary of the Ordinary within the Roma community of Braga´s Social Housing Neighbourhoods

Phi

Phi

Phi is a platform that connects people in remote off-grid communities to clean, low-cost energy improving their living conditions.

Funding the Cooperative City

Eutropian

Architecture should be more about access, rights, and resources than forms, images and algorithms

Culture Territories

Culture Territories Association

Use of new ideas and technologies to support local societies and revitalise overlooked abondoned buildings.

Roots in Exile

Marta Fernández Cortés

The current refugee crisis has made visible the need to improve the design strategies of Refugee Camps to make them more livable, sustainable on the midterm and culturally adapted to their inhabitants, making refugees the designers of their own living spaces.

The European Dream

Guerilla Architects

{THE EUROPEAN DREAM} is an architectural compilation of essays and interpretations about identities as economic, political and cultural boosters and borders as sociological processes.

Modulor´s Bastard Children

GRUPO DE ARQUITECTURA SUBALTERNA

A critical project about Modernism to recognize the value of suburban aesthetic

Bodily cartographies

blanca pujals

Abstraction as an epistemological framework in which the act of seeing the world reinvents itself on a scientific basis

Air Profit and Dwell

Estrela Neves

A housing typology that combines home profitability with dwellers’ protection.

Humid Europe

Giuditta Vendrame

Future architecture should be humid, a wet place where borders melt and disappear.

The Architecture (an Archaeology) of a Post—Nation

Office And Synonyms

What is the architecture that materialises the post-national political contract?

Fair Building

Institute of Design Kielce

Is “fair building” possible in architecture? And whose responsibility is it?

Archipelago Lab

Pedro Pitarch

a model for the contemporary metropolis

Space in Time

BNGRT

In the Middle Ages it was the market square, before the millennium it was the shopping street in the city, today we have online shopping – but the future of shopping lies in the phygital store, an urban hub of a large logistic network representing the convergence between online and offline world.

The Circular Ruins

Gili Merin

What Went Wrong with Post Modernist Residential Experiments - Documentary and Research Proposal

Supermix in the City

We Made That

Space in our cities is precious, we have to make it work harder by being more ambitious with combinations of different uses: supermix!

Narratives

fala atelier

architecture can only be produced through fictional narratives.

Permanent Temporality of Refugee Camps: The Syrian Chapter

Nikita Gyawali

The project intends to reinvent refugee camps as urban catalysts, humanitarian and political agencies. The new urban prototype addresses the possibility of long term stay and integration of Syrians, focusing on issues of self-reliance, through employment and education.

Proxima Utopia

Selim Projects

A world atlas of utopias – to be considered in the era of post-everything.

I would prefer not to

Miloš Kosec

A research into the new figure of a reluctant architect that chooses passiveness over action

No-Man's-Land

José Tomás Pérez Valle

Using the triangular coordinates of a longstanding territorial dispute between Chile and Perú, "No-man’s-Land" explores the subtraction of territory as a subversion of the current politicize rhetoric towards the possibility of re-think border condition.