Rapid development in cities create a large stock of empty buildings: 5 to 10% of commercial or public structures are vacant for at least 6 months.
Buildings and locations may change, but the amount of available space remains constant.
This temporary yet perpetuated slack stock is what we call Permawhile.

Today there is an evident crisis of the Civic. Architects don’t find new definitions to counteract privatisation, while the rise of the virtual sphere questions the need for physical structures of socialisation.

We propose the reactivation of the dormant network of empty buildings, to create temporary civic centres in the heart of communities with deficit of public facilities.
By re-colonising these strategic vacant structures, we redefine the civic paradigm as a networked space of human exchange, dynamic and adaptive yet with a strong vocation of permanence: can we make a contingent framework feel as grounded as a Greek agora?