Social and political engagement is inherent to architecture, the act of design is not neutral. It is our collective responsibility to think and act to fight for democratic territories. Working with the 99% is the idea that all have the right to architecture and to co-design the territories, against social and territorial segregation.
The project started with Prodac North and South, together with the neighborhood Associations in order to get the building permits of their houses, self-built by the dwellers in the 1970's and never legalized. Later, continuing our research on housing and pressuring needs it represents, as a result from our work in a deprived neighborhood in Costa da Caparica, a Community Kitchen was build as a start to discuss re-housing in co-creation with the inhabitants.. Quinta do Ferro as a proposal of a new urban plan for this area in Lisbon’s historical centre or Marvila with the proposal for the re-opening of a palace as both cultural and refugees centre.