Urban [Re]Activism Toolkit

Idea by

Carlos Alarcón Allen

ALAS, Alarcon Linde Architects

http://www.alas.berlin

Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 14, 10179 Berlin, Germany

Carlos Alarcon and Axel Linde founded ALAS in 2014 after having worked for seven years at Sauerbruch Hutton in Berlin, where they significantly contributed to successful competitions such as the M9 Museum in Mestre, or the Agency for City Planning and Environment in Hamburg. They also worked as project leaders in the realisation of complex and ambitious schemes such as the Low2No Ecological Quarter in Helsinki, currently under construction.

Call for ideas 2016

A methodological set for the creation, documentation and networking of autonomous architectures.

# Construction

Architects and designers many times take a proactive role in the pursuit of an improved environment by generating and presenting their own projects in the public realm. This act of URBAN [RE]ACTIVISM is gaining greater relevance and expanding our profession in an increasingly connected society. We can learn from such projects by registering them and exploring the processes and mind-sets that lay behind them.

We propose to start from the Future Architecture Platform and use the momentum created by it to embed and launch a parallel process of research, documentation and networking. After collecting a project-pool from different urban activists, we will create an open glossary of terms and categories that describe this expanded work-frame and retrofit back to the projects and practices. The final aim is to generate a prototype of the TOOLKIT: an interactive and open methodological set for the creation, documentation and networking of autonomous architectures.