Bringing Back the Social into the Cities

Aleksandra Zarek

A holistic approach to urban transformations as a basis for the socially-informed evolution and reconfiguration of cities.

#Social

Madrid Urban Stewardship

Sodeste

The city of the future will be mainly made (again) ​by its inhabitants, and not only by companies, experts or governments

#Social

Bioplarch

Esen Gökçe Özdamar, Ahmet Bal, Şermin Şentürk

From agricultural waste to architectural biomorphology

#Construction

Skopje. Beyond The Obvious

Vera Seriakov, Nela Kadic

We believe that structural interventions in the city fabric can help overcome inequalities and form a base for social sustainability - especially in diverse societies.

#Social

New Models of City Life

Urban as I

Cities are a mirror of our aspirations. Is the neo-liberal city based on knowledge for the sake of economy the only way?

#Economy

Architecture of Commons

Land+Civilization Compositions

Future architecture should look for ways of living (al)together, as all power structures and capitalist formations push us more and more away from each other.

#Technology

From Infrastructure to urban Interiors

Manon Mollard

Turning water infrastructure into floodable and inhabitable spaces to reveal the city’s underlying narratives

#Construction

Architecture After the Future

Ana Jeinić

The real question is how architecture as a discipline can adapt to the global crisis of the future.

#Other

The Future of Architecture

Something Fantastic

It will tell stories, it will be dense, not everything will be aligned, will be painted, will be as it always was.

#Technology

Guerilla Architects

Guerilla Architects

We as architects do not think that one must build big to create large value.

#Construction

Self-Constructed Paradigms

Sara Neves + Filipe Estrela

Close-up, melt with the inhabitants and co-create a local self-paradigm of architecture. Co-build it and give them the tools to re-shape it for a continuous updating in the face of successive needs.

#Construction

Diktyotopia

Aman Iwan

Promoting committed, trans-disciplinary creation through local-scale and participatory actions.

#Construction

ZIP City: Houseless Not Homeless

Lavinia Scaletti

An urban programme exploring a new way of living in cities without a house and redefining the concepts of ownership, sharing and home.

#Social

Architecture for Refugees

dotlinearchitects

Open source online platform to collect and share knowledge on “refugee architecture”.

#Other

Reconsidering Hope

Clement Blanchet

How to engage architecture, infrastructure and nature into a new form of collectivism?

#Construction

The Urban Yoga

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Senses are the new brick.

#Social

Amateur Cities

Amateur Cities

We need to learn cities anew, not as masters but as amateurs.

#Technology

Ruincarnations

Miloš Kosec

Creating possibilities of post-functional architecture through mainstream reuse of ruins and decaying structures.

#Social

Common Places

Plan Común

De-mercantilized, political and strategic projects for the public and society at large.

#Construction

Landscapes for the Anthropocene

CNTXT Studio

We, humans, have become a geologic force of change, but we struggle to grasp the consequences of that. These projects investigate potential dialogues mediating networks of humans and non-humans.

#Environment

No Future

urbz

Architectural practice must leave the future behind and instead seize the present.

#Construction

Biosynthetic Possessions

Linnea Våglund

The project is an investigation of the possibility of synthetic biology, in a speculative design scenario estimated to be possible within 20 years. A Reality where we can program and modify organisms into objects, where your possessions grow at home instead of being manufactured in a factory.

#Construction

Weaponized Architecture

Léopold Lambert

Future architecture should understand its inherent violence and and appropriate it in resistive political formations.

#Social

The Ingot

Jack Self

Using financial conditions of debt as a design tool we can create high-quality and inexpensive homes.

#Construction

Curating Heritage in Future

Sonja Jankov

This installation reproduces objects, enabling visitors to experience them.

#Other