FORM FOLLOWS... EXHIBITION Graz - AUSTRIA wh-at, -o, -y FORM TOPIC: AFFORDABLE HOUSING Lavinia Scaletti is working in London Having a clear position on societal FUTURE and proposes a radical change in the and environmental questions gives Housing is one of the core challenges perception of home and the way we them guidance in a world where any ARCHITECTURE of architecture. Today and especially inhabit urban space. kind of universal truth has become in times of increasing focus on Sara Neves & Filipe Estrela are an insignificant and is replaced by an PLATFORM economics and the victory of market architectural practice from Portugal, anything-goes attitude following the value over use value for most parts they see the urban challenge rooted in logics of capitalist economy. 291 ideas were submitted to the open of our lives, the question of affordable rural contexts where they are active in call from the Future Architecture housing has become more and more slow-speed hands-on projects. Facing this sometimes overwhelming Platform that was asking young crucial. reality with its incredible contradictory professionals in the field of conditions and being able to act and to architecture to share their visions 3 OPTIMISTIC PRACTICES WORKING FORM FOLLOWS... propose possible solutions and ways on the future of architecture. From ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING: to tackle important questions is a key feature of all 9 optimistic practices. FOLLOWS this swarm of ideas 9 practices were FORM MATTERS! ... chosen for the “Form follows...” They are searching for affordable exhibition taking into consideration housing solutions in different cities, We all live in forms and deal with them Optimism is an attitude that allows their engagement within societal and trying to reclaim territory from in our everyday lives, but form is not us to stay capable of giving form to OPTIMISM YOU environmental questions as well as project developers, cost controllers, neutral, it comes from somewhere and architectural ideas in a globalised their ability to transform a critical etc. They extend their work over someone is responsible for shaping world, where crisis has become a position into design proposals. the classical starting point of the it. This process of giving form is an permanent socio-economic condition architectural project by setting up essential competence of the architect and describing the same a major ALLTAG FINANCE projects themselves, or initiating them and always driven by the values, academic occupation. without waiting for a commission. interests and convictions. 9 PRACTICES Besides the fact that they produce meaningful spaces, this new field of The “Form follows...” exhibition allows 3 TOPICS action becomes an integral part of visitors to discover the intellectual MONEY CRISIS contemporary architecture production. and practical universes of 9 optimistic, TOPIC: COMMON SPACE IMPRESSUM young architectural practices that Jack Self is a young architect and develop possible answers to relevant EDITORS: Common space is one of the highest writer in London, dealing with societal questions in order to get an HDA Graz goods of society and at the same time ERROR FUNCTION financing issues of housing, insight about what drives them in their Markus Bogensberger, one of its most fragile spaces. Being Super Future Group are an designs. Vilja Cortolezis, Karin Oberhuber responsible for the production of space architectural office working in Graz ISSSresearch&architecture means being responsible for more on architectural visions to bring back They were all asked to answer the Ingrid Sabatier & Stephan Schwarz then the interests of a particular client, nature into cities. following questions: Future Architecture Platform CONDITION FAILURE but serving society in a broader sense, urbz is an interdisciplinary practice - What inspires and drives you in your especially in times, when the public intensively engaged on various scales design? CONTRIBUTORS: is being more and more pushed out, in Dharavi, Mumbai. - What about your optimism? Guerilla Architects reduced and privatised. A strong lobby - Your Form follows ... what? Jack Self NATURE CONTEXT for public space is needed. TOPIC: CHANGING LIFESTYLES - Explain your processs of work! Jerome Becker, Florian Sammer & ... and to bring a physical installation to Lukas Vejnik 3 OPTIMISTIC PRACTICES ACTING IN Urbanisation and urban issues have the exhibition to create an opportunity Lavinia Scaletti COMMON SPACE: become increasingly important in the for visitors to interact with their works Plan Común NECESSITY SOCIETY field of architecture and urbanism over and the issues addressed in them. Sara Neves & Filipe Estrela They work on the production and the last years and nobody can escape Schwemmland activation of public spaces, using them today. Linked to that urban Together they open up a space to Super Future Group different means and ways of action growth we can observe a change in experience ideas, questions and urbz and by that expand the classical the way how people live, work and possible answers within the expanded COMMON ECONOMY field of action of the architectural interact. These radical transformations field of architecture and urbanism. CURATORS, EXHIBITION- AND profession. have a profound impact on what GRAPHIC DESIGN: spaces are needed today. Ingrid Sabatier & Stephan Schwarz - Guerilla Architects are a young ISSSresearch&architecture BEHAVIOR ECOLOGY collective spread over Europe, active in 3 OPTIMISTIC PRACTICES DEALING OPTIMISM appropriating space in unconventional WITH CHANGING LIFESTYLES: Exhibition opening: 9th of June 2016, 7pm ways. All 9 young architectural practices, featured in the exhibition, are filled Duration of the exhibition until 14th of Plan Común is an architectural They use personal experiences in with fresh optimism and the will to August 2016, Tue–Sun, 10am – 6pm practice from Santiago de Chile which space as method to address questions HABITS NEEDS give form to their visions, by that they HDA | Mariahilferstraße 2 | 8020 Graz develops speculative proposals to of changing lifestyles in times of reclaim spaces in various urban invite us to dream of possible futures. globalised urbanisation. Print: DCM Druckcenter, printed in D constellations as public spaces and They take position towards a possible Proof Reading: Jana Warnatzsch trying to find ways to realise these Jerome Becker, Florian Sammer & ASPIRATIONS COLLABORATION future and are part of the ones who visions. Lukas Vejnik work in a project based participate in actively designing it. In The copyrights of all texts and images Schwemmland is an association, collaboration in Vienna and question order to be able to do so they need to a remain with the authors. active in the industrial harbour area in our habits of sleep and share a series – Sun, 10am 6pm 2016 | Tue until 14th of August 2016, 7pm | duration | opening 9th of June 2 | 8020 Graz | Mariahilferstraße Graz follows ... exhibition at HDA Form – www.isssresearch.com | ISSSresearch&architecture – www.futurearchitectureplatform.org Platform Architecture Future | – www.hda-graz.at Thinnfeld im Palais HDA Linz in order to reclaim space for the clear idea of what they believe in. of visions how we could change them. © ISSSresearch&architecture, 2016 citizens in forgotten urban niches. EXPERIMENT ......

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Jack Self invites you to get a deep Super Future Group Sara Neves & Lavinia Scaletti invites insight to the financial logics of the London invites you to not only see and understand you to follow her on the derives of her self- housing market that strongly drive urban the concept of their project Urban Super Filipe Estrela invite you to experiments, that she uses as research tool development. The project “The Ingot” is based Forest but also experience it. This idea of discover their aproach to tackle the global to create knowledge for her design proposals on this research and uses the profound a radical transformation of the cities upper urban question at its origins and engage with such as the ZIP City. This project is radically understanding of these financial parameters level, applied to Vienna, but also possible in communities in rural environments all over re-thinking the ways of how we could inhabit with a shift of perspective in order to develop various other contexts, not only proposes the world, By doing so, they cultivate a slow- our cities and proposes not only a new and propose a role model for social housing a fresh perspective on what would be speed attitude in order to create meaningful lifestyle, but also a new physical environment that is based and not opposed to the idea of possible, but also questions the way we live spaces for and with people. Their installations that fits them. finance. Opposite to classical buildings, the together and what we aspire from our built invites you to step in a new role and change material value of “The Ingot” is not decreasing environment. All these aspects are met in the perspective on the building process by but starts growing after its construction design proposal for the project with the clear experiencing the hands-on approach. completion. ambition to bring back nature to the city. Jerome Becker,

urbz invites you to discover the various Florian Sammer & projects that they have developed in their long term engagement in Dharavi, one of Lukas Vejnik invites you to Mumbai’s largest self-built neighbourhoods. personally experience the multiple questions Besides opening up an insight in the around sleep and its spatial consequences fascinating world of Dharavi and the multiple they are dealing with in their project ways of how people use its spaces, you can “Bedroom Exodus”. They open up a field of possible imaginations of how small changes follow the process of the construction and CHANGING transformation of a house that urbz has The Ingot LIFESTYLES in our daily life routines could transform not initiated, planned, built and transformed in only our ways of living but also the ways Dharavi. Urban of how we use, appropriate and co-inhabit Self- spaces in completely new ways. no Super Bedroom AFFORDABLE constructed future HOUSING Forest paradigms ZIP City: Exodus Houseless not Homeless StadtProzessor: Graz follows… Common Plan Común invites you to find you! out more about their “speculative strategies” Places Acting out FORM HDA for new Common Places and to share ENTRY your ideas where these visions could be of the niche COMMON implemented in Graz. Further they developed SPACE a new “speculative strategy” for Andreas Hofer Platz in Graz and thereby contribute to FOLLOWS... the public debate on the future development of that place and provoke the idea of possible appropriations of the plaza for and by the inhabitants of Graz.

Other voices on Schwemmland invites you Guerilla Architects Ingrid Sabatier & to explore the diversified variety of different invite you to participate in their „computer optimism intervention strategies that deals since supported collective action“ through their Stephan Schwarz invite several years with rurban niches in the living installation „StadtProzessor: Graz you to discover the intellectual and practical “We can minimize the amount of money industrial harbour area of Linz in order to follows… you!“ that is connected to the universes of 9 optimistic practices in the spent, by maximizing optimism and open often forgotten places to the public and practice’s mobile office „Bastian, der present “Form follows...” exhibition through a inventiveness and by making use of what search for possibilities to reclaim them for StadtSymbiont“. This installation allows you to series of physical installation by the practices, already exists” - Jean-Philippe Vassal and with the people who are potential users of instruct the architectural collective to realize allowing you a personal experience with the (The Future of Architecture, 2012) these incredible places. your utopia of Graz, get an insight to their topics Common Space, Affordable Housing ...virtual project cloud and exchange with them and Changing Lifestyles, which these young “... architecture goes hand in hand with through regular Skype meetings. architects are dealing with in their work. The optimism and the expectancy of an “Form follows...” newspaper collects and advance of human dignity as a matter of documents the various inspirations what principle.” - Hermann Hertzberger (The their forms follow, the practices‘s statements Future of Architecture, 2012) on optimism and their ways of working, and – Sun, 10am 6pm 2016 | Tue until 14th of August 2016, 7pm | duration | opening 9th of June 2 | 8020 Graz | Mariahilferstraße Graz follows ... exhibition at HDA Form – www.isssresearch.com | ISSSresearch&architecture – www.futurearchitectureplatform.org Platform Architecture Future | – www.hda-graz.at Thinnfeld im Palais HDA opens up a broad field of ideas and visions.

Ingrid Sabatier & Stephan Schwarz 9 optimistic # Guerilla Architects # Jerome Becker, Florian Sammer & # Lavinia Scaletti # Sara Neves & Filipe Estrela # Super Future Group research&architecture IMPRESSUM ISSSresearch&architecture - www.isssresearch.com practices: # Jack Self Lukas Vejnik # Plan Común # Schwemmland # urbz n°1/10

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BERLIN 2012 The Diver LONDON 940 km 2012 donation dinner 2012 Hidden Borough 2014 Gottesacker BURG LUTTER 262 km 2014 Berlin Unlimited@ZKU 2015 GA summercamp 2015 Berlin im Fluss 2015 Bastian Stadt:Symbiont SOLINGEN GÖTTINGEN 2015 bergisch.project2014 culture lab 2016 MehrWert 2015 The Diver

KARLSRUHE 2015 The European Dream STUTTGART 2012 workshop@Kunstverein Stuttgart

GRAZ 2016 @form follows...exhibition 1316 km

LJUBLJANA 2016 @FAP matchmaking conference

SOFIA 2016 @180 degrees festival 2014 Water architectures ROM 2016@MAXXI lecture series ARCHITECTS ATHEN 2016 @AUTONOMA conference

The established principle of “form The manifestation of architecture Architects have the responsibility The design of our living environment that we can shape, is possible. follows function”, coined in the time of should – more than ever – follow its of designing not only space, but the should not be a decision of a BIO OFFICE PROFILE OPTIMISM We follow our motivation. Our the dawn of modernism, represents context, not in the sense of copying impact of design on the emotional minority – it is in everyone’s hands to optimism is connected to the inner the determination of architects around the past, but to respect the existing connections of the future occupants participate in the future of architecture. We are an international collective of Free resources, network, knowledge, It is not wrong to describe us as drive to be active and work towards 1896 to reinvent architecture – to structures and to develop its own with space. It is not only a condition architects and focus our work on the motivation and “Bastian”, the optimists, when all future prospects our beliefs: the only way we can think define and establish new principles of identity.We Weare an don’t international have a collective choice, of but architects to andof practicalfocus our work functionalism, on the forgotten how and unused resourcesIf it of is our deemed cities. necessary to pursue forgotten and unused resources of our StadtSymbiont. include some kind of catastrophic that far – to actually make a change in Sharing a common squatting experience in London in 2012, the name „Guerilla Architects“ evolved through the need to defend ourselves before cities. scenario for humanity. shaping space. work court.with ourThe intensebuilt environment experiences in occupying and thewe spaces experience in-between our - in environment, a political, legal or architecturalthe way significance - as well as questioningand impact the of socio one- the system – is only as idealists. Or we therefore:economical structures of the cities, connects ourbut group a conditionuntil today. Our of thename distinctive also reflects the discussionof of the our mostprofession historical and its societal phrases boundari of - Sharing a common squatting Human resources from Berlin (Anja To study architecture and become can at least try it. Later on, during the 20th century, the es and constraints. At the same time we focus onatmosphere, unconventional the and «geniussubversive loci» transformations and the of publicarchitecture, spaces. we prefer to reject experience in London in 2012, the Fritz, Henriette Lütcke, Lucie Waschke, an architect in a world where urban We are a loose collective of thinkers, makers, theorists, planners, pedants and muddlers, who range in between the fields of urban planning, built name „Guerilla Architects“ evolved Nike Kraft, Silvia Gioberti,), Göttingen planning and building construction architectural form followed many formand temporary follows architectures, art production, culturaleconomic-political history, theater and setting. art. We come Therefore from different partsthe absoluteof Germany, determinism Italy and Bulgaria of andeach are different paths – it was futuristic; it based in Berlin, Göttingen, Sofia, as well as soonarchitecture in London. The shouldwork of every inspire, single tellmember stories of the groupstatement enriches the for evolving a word network pair andwith signifi an - through the need to defend ourselves (Tobias Hattendorff), London (Benedikt is often not a debate, but a matter of was totalitarian and monumental; cantly defines its working and communication methods.and engage the imagination to achieve overrated ideological program. before court. The intense experiences Stoll) and Sofia (Denica Indzhova, Emil power and money, it is also optimistic. it was organic; it was brutalist and context. more than just the superficial : in occupying the spaces in-between Angelov) postmodern; then deconstructive, Therefore, architecture should not be - in a political, legal or architectural As well as being concerned about and sometimes still tends towards form follows determined by an abstract concept; way - as well as questioning the society, who doesn’t even care about the neoclassical. Today, we have all of instead it should be determined by socio-economical structures of the itself and its future. these different layers of architecture precisely the thing that it is designed cities, connects our group until today. Since Louis Sullivan first coined and relate to their stories and content. for: Our name also reflects the discussion It is also optimistic to work for a social the phrase “form follows function”, presence – they are all valuable to us. of our profession and its societal change, although change works only the world population has increased boundaries and constraints. At the on the big scale, and the masses enormously and the majority of form follows us. Back then architects struggled to same time we focus on unconventional are often concerned only about their built architecture is not designed by emancipate themselves from the and subversive transformations of consumerism. architects. Society develops faster than The city is the built reality of its society. past and determined a form that was public spaces. architecture and determines the forms The particular spatial situation shapes We are a loose collective of thinkers, We prefer to be active, instead of only opposed to the form of the precedent. It’s not a given architectural parameter or the formlessness of architecture in and is shaped by its citizens. Their makers, theorists, planners, pedants criticizing. Nowadays architects are relieved to be of style anymore, but a consequence the urban fabric. In that sense: needs, wishes and visions determine and muddlers, who range in between We think in our role of architects it compelled by this ideological struggle. of our actions. That doesn’t mean that the physical form. the fields of urban planning, built is not enough to build houses in this architecture is only defined by “us as Architecture should not be a weapon and temporary architectures, art cluster of power and money, but to form follows architects”, but most of all by you as for controlling the masses, but a tool production, cultural history, theatre challenge the topics that shape the participating citizens: of shaping a better living environment: and art. We come from different cities. Not only in its urban context, necessity. parts of Germany, Italy and Bulgaria but also more in its social and – Sun, 10am 6pm 2016 | Tue until 14th of August 2016, 7pm | duration | opening 9th of June 2 | 8020 Graz | Mariahilferstraße Graz follows ... exhibition at HDA Form – www.isssresearch.com | ISSSresearch&architecture – www.futurearchitectureplatform.org Platform Architecture Future | – www.hda-graz.at Thinnfeld im Palais HDA form follows form follows you! and are based in Berlin, Göttingen, interpersonal connections. Sofia and London. The work of The utopia that we experienced every single member of the group together in London, disconnecting society. enriches the evolving network and ourselves from the logic of money, significantly defines its working and standardisation and regulations, FORMcommunication methods. proved us that a different world, one n°2/10 FOLLOWS

squatting an old victorian warehouse living an utopia of free and available resources changing identities from squatter to artists to defending ourselves before court public space section 6 walking through London in Google street view new definition of space in the 55 Great Suffolk street Hidden Borough through performances “we have the right to stay here” the river Thames City-making Guerilla architects building a float out of air mattresses on vacancies in all boroughts dumpster diving a network of free resources temporary architectural projects research “the door was open” notification of court trial founding Guerilla Architets back to Berlin research on vacancies, markets, regulations, resources Hidden Borough performance Berlin workshop Stuttgart with Pablo Wendel preparation for London prints blue suits tool kits arriving in London performances Hidden Borough preparation court hearing invading the Thames

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finding a venue environment for interaction transdisciplinary festival live crowdfunding tote bags, post cards, good mood media exhibition design flexibility spaces delimited by the open structures learning and sharing knowledge workshops defining problems exhibition furniture changing four times in two days according to the events exhibition space diversity of content open call - arts theory research architecture urbanism building a guerilla wagon Berlin Unlimited еxhibition, symposium, debates, film screenings, celebrations exploring the city contact to Urban Transcripts, Collage Lab research sponsors, lecturers developing exhibition design open call for artist, theorist, architects, creatives live crowdfunding promotion building flexible festival furniture Vernissage Exhibition, Party Finissage exhibition dismounting finding a venue building a wagon workshop preparation organising opening Symposium workshop presentations

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low-cost office new models part of the urban fabric designing a project studying technical specifications buying a caravan furniture removal developing lightweight modular furniture StadtSymbiont developing research on Berlin’s free resources parking laws developing a series of maps a manual on hacking the city relocation vehicle permit solar panels TÜV gas installation brake system electricity connecting to StadtProzessor research on free resources research technical specifications on the road to Graz Presentation FORMdeveloping an idea of low-cost urban office office design, material research cost listing buying a caravan, vehicle registration, TÜV building works developing StadtProzessor connected to StadtSymbiont preparation Exhibition “Form follows...”Vernissage StadtSymbiont in Berlin FOLLOWS

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Editors Sponsors Curators, exhibition- and graphic design Contributors The copyrights of all texts and images remain with the authors. FORM FOLLOWS... OPTIMISTIC PRACTICE Santiago - CHILE attitude PLAN Form follows a critical position towards what is happening around us.

Form follows a rebel attitude towards status quo promoted by some mindsets, briefs and clients. COMÚN strategies to maximise and strengthen and Universidad Nacional de Asunción Burch (CH). BIO the character of public or collective (PY, 2016). He has been teaching at Associated professionals Form follows a concept understood as the space -understood as a key aspect PUC Architecture School (CL) since Marcelo Cox (ex partner), Claudio Plan Común is an architecture office of architecture, regardless of its 2014. Baladrón, Diego García, Jadue synthesis of a vision engaged with common founded in 2012 by Felipe de Ferrari scale or program-. Until now, we Livingstone, Osvaldo Larraín, Cristián and Diego Grass, after 6 years of have done around 35 projects. Our Kim Courrèges (1984) Maze, Francisco Quintana, Kuehn demands. disciplinary debate, professional projects include the UC Teaching and French Architect – Graduated from Malvezzi Architects, Mobil Arquitectos, collaboration and editorial production Research Facilities (2nd Place, Public Ecole d’Architecture de la Ville et des Magdalena Besomi, Alfredo with 0300TV and the audiovisual Competition), Hungarian Museums Territoires Marne-la-Vallée (FR) in Thiermann, Umwelt, Amunategui archive OnArchitecture. of Architecture & Photography (4th 2010, and holds a M.Sc in Mathematics Valdés, Christian Courrèges (artist), Since 2007, OnArchitecture has Place, Public Competition), Markets’ and Computer Science from Université Javier Toro (artist). Form follows a clear strategy in maximising allowed us to be directly confronted Esplanade (3rd Place, Public Paris 7 – Denis Diderot (FR, 2005). with several works and architects Competition). At same time, we are She worked at Eric Lapierre Audiovisual Archive of Architecture public or collective space, regardless scale around the world. Both our interviews leading two researches: 1) ‘Common Experience (FR, 2010-2011); Estudio Since 2007, founders of Plan Común and building portraits have been part of Places’, a collaborative research on America (BR, 2011); Pezo von have been working on an audiovisual or program. our learning process, regarding what new alternatives of public space and Ellrichshausen (CL, 2012-2013); archive of architecture called we want to do as architects and how to 2) a research focused on Santiago’s Roberto Gutiérrez Arquitectos (2013- OnArchitecture (www.onarchitecture. define the goals of our own practice. General Cemetery as a metropolitan 2014), and as communication manager com) This original content include public space. at Elemental (CL, 2014–2015). She conversations with more than 150 For instance, we have appropriated started collaborating with Plan Común interviews -with architects, artists and Form follows a economy of means, a radical Lacaton & Vassal‘s concept of extra- Felipe De Ferrari (1983) in 2013 and has been partner since editors- and more than 200 buildings space; we are quite interested in the Chilean Architect –Graduated from 2015. portraits in different cities all over understanding of resources such as energy legacy by Lina Bo Bardi and the rich Universidad Católica de Chile (Hons) the world. This is just the tip of the mix of modernism, surrealism and in 2010. Co-founder of 0300TV, Thomas Batzenschlager (1987) iceberg of a research on modern and and time. popular culture within her work; we OnArchitecture & Plan Común. Co- French Architect – Graduated from contemporary architecture that have are also very much interested in the editor of books such as “ARQ Docs Ecole d’Architecture de Nancy (FR, been very relevant in the position, work by Pier Vittorio Aureli & Martino Pier Vittorio Aureli” (2014), “ARQ Docs 2010) & M.Res. in Philosophy at strategies and work systems pushing Tattara (DOGMA) which has also Atelier Bow-Wow” (2015) and “Lugares Université Nancy 2 (FR, 2011). forward by Plan Común. brought us close to autonomist theory Comunes: Recoleta e Independencia” He worked at Spatial Practice (RPC, Form follows behaviour of both people and -there‘s an emergent political party (2015). 2011), Open Architecture (RPC, 2012), Plan Común office (Biarritz 1963, with this ideology in Chile which we He was guest lecturer at Barcelona Umwelt (CL, 2013) & Emilio Marín (CL, Providencia) things, including buildings. support -. Same thing with Mendes Institute of Architecture (ES, 2014). Author of “L’habitant temporaire’ Since March 2016, our office is da Rocha‘s militant attitude; the 2009-2011), Centro de Cultura and co-editor “Lugares Comunes: based in an 18 sqm garage that we way in which Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Contemporánea de Barcelona (ES, Recoleta e Independencia” (2015). He transformed into our working space. understands Henry Lefebvre; 2011), X Bienal de Sao Paulo (BR, 2012), has been working at Plan Común and The main objective of the intervention Architecture Research Unit‘s concept Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio teaching at PUC Architecture School was to maximise the potential use of Form follows publicness as the celebration of of public space; the sharp attitude of (CH, 2013), Harvard GSD (US, 2016) (CL) since 2014. an extremely small and dark room. Arno Brandlhuber or the double-sided and Centro de Estudios Públicos (CL, Having this in mind, we performed two the public realm. simplicity of Office KGDVS. In short, 2016). He has been teaching at PUC Lucas Mateluna (1990) main strategies: 1) to integrate a new many ways to understand architecture, Architecture School (CL) since 2014. Chilean Architect – Graduated from poly-carbonate envelope in both facade some of them even contradicting the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2015. and ceiling –increasing natural light– others, as a network of references that Diego Grass (1983) He taught as assistant at PUC and 2) to replace the roof structure by That is why it is so urgent to radically correct the have already pointed out, we believe that the role coexists within our practice. Chilean Architect –Graduated from Architecture School (CL, 2014-2015). a wood deck, creating a new space OPTIMISM state of things. In order to counteract this oppressive of designers is crucial in framing this struggle; the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2010. for breaks and informal debate, right context, we believe it is necessary to strengthen designer as a public intellectual, not only by shaping Plan Común is a consequence of this Associate architect at Izquierdo above our office space and below a Although we are aware of neo-liberalism‘s strong the public realm and to reinforce the collective something, but also by exposing a political position selective knowledge. We feel close Lehmann Arquitectos (CL, 2009 – OFFICE PROFILE very big and old oak tree –that also capacity of transformation, re-articulation and consciousness against the many inconsistencies through projects and work ethics. to a certain genealogy of architects 2011). enables us to have a new horizon appropriation of everything –including the production of global capital accumulation. On this regard, only and we don’t have any problem to Co-founder of 0300TV, OnArchitecture Human Resources towards the surroundings–. and/or attitude sustained by counter-hegemonic a critical position can overcome the established We are convinced that another world is possible, recognise their influence: we believe & Plan Común. Co-editor of books Felipe De Ferrari (CL), Diego Grass This small project is an example of the – Sun, 10am 6pm 2016 | Tue until 14th of August 2016, 7pm | duration | opening 9th of June 2 | 8020 Graz | Mariahilferstraße Graz follows ... exhibition at HDA Form – www.isssresearch.com | ISSSresearch&architecture – www.futurearchitectureplatform.org Platform Architecture Future | – www.hda-graz.at Thinnfeld im Palais HDA positions-, we have the feeling that something will limits defined by the few individuals controlling our even though the current system of values constantly that architecture is a common field such as “ARQ Docs Atelier Bow- (CL), Kim Courrèges (FR), Thomas attitude we have to respond to different happen within our society. In the last decades we environment and lifestyle. tries to underestimate this alternative. In that sense, of knowledge that exceeds individual Wow” (2015) and “Lugares Comunes: Batzenschlager (FR) briefs –regardless its scale, program got used to a constant state of crisis –either political, we are optimistic about the possibility of a different agendas. At the same time, we are Recoleta e Independencia” (2015). Collaborators in the past or conditions–: to offer an extra space economical, social or climate-related-, a sign that the What is at stake is culture and the way we live future, one that should be less dependent on the a team in which each member has He was guest lecturer at Arsitek Muda Jose Lemaitre (CL), Lucas Mateluna –most of the times unsolicited or system does not seem to be sustainable anymore. -including the backgrounds and values that define market, more open in cultural terms and enjoyable different backgrounds that inform each Indonesia (2014), Yokohama Graduate (CL), Kotaro Shimada (JP), Costanza unexpected, for a limited budget– that Every day, we see how the crisis gets even more the model of any given society-. As many people by a majority. project in specific ways. School of Architecture (JP, 2014-2015) Zeni (IT), Jules Salmon (FR), Oliver promotes collective encounters. FORMextreme by the very operation of the system itself. Plan Común proposes formal n°3/10 FOLLOWS COMMON PLACES / RESEARCH

As architects, designers, authorities and citizens, we must choose the right to the city in favor of public realm. The city -the war cry of modern architecture, is now controlled by the ups and downs of market economy. We believe our discipline could counteract this process by creating useless value through collective public spaces – sometimes in detriment of private or individual interests-, making use of the strategic approach of architecture, producing new ways to inhabit the world.

We aim at producing alternatives which re-validate the public value of architecture as the way of thinking and building our cities. There are all kinds of themes or subjects of interest, from big scale to intimate spaces. The potential of architecture in this reproduction is based on disciplinary tools such as text and neutral drawings dealing with canonical architectural elements.

Common Places is a collaborative research promoted by Plan Común since 2012. This starts from a concern on questioning the validity of current operative models -whether they are ideological, economical, cultural or normative- in order to produce new and fertile public spaces with our own design skills and architectural tools. FORMFor more information please visit www.plancomun.com FOLLOWS

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and the edge effect endure? How do an independent harbour journal. Since PROJECTS OF SCHWEMMLAND gardens in the East of Linz. These WORLD IN demand the «right to the city 1» in a BIO May 2013, he has been coordinator of Connecting the InnerCity with the community gardens, “Hafengarten“ settlement place and time where many see no “urban gardening” for the Soil Alliance Outskirts and “Wachstumsphase“ at the TRANSITION city? commercial area Schwemmland is part of a longer term Upperaustria. Tobacco Factory, were co-founded by and process-based examination of urban area As a cultural producer Schwemmland Schwemmland. The world is changing. But how «For me there is no other place like the eastern part of Linz. The nature „Here you were born, here is the brain operates locally over a longer time woodland to change with the world? Can we this, which so intensely moves me, of this heterogeneous urban space of the monster, here you must fight.“ frame - Founding community gardens, Schwemmland used the “mobile change the world totally alone? But it challenges me again and lets me waters is currently part of international Rurban Upcycling „Yellow House“, beds“ to connect the Inner City with its discussions about Zwischenstadt Che Guevara to Ziegler, Geneva 1964, first World is possible to set the goal of making a discover, impresses me, torments hills use of vacant properties, spatial outskirts. Up to 1950, farmers of the positive change in your own immediate me, fascinates me and it lets all the (In-Between Cities), and Metrozones. Sugar Conference of the UNO. interventions. In other ways, the eastern outskirts supplied the Inner surroundings. answers out. It is my home, which green area The area is characterised by constant organisation points out the qualities City with fresh vegetables. By using In the classical field of architecture, flows through my body and is all over riparian zone change and transitory events. However, Wiesmayr grew up in the Linz harbour of the city outskirt through different their own strength or that of livestock, many do not find happiness, me.» it is now clear that structural limits and industrial area, on the farm of the activities: e.g. various exhibitions, they transported the products to project area Schwemmland incorporate their own interests or have been reached. There are hardly last professional Danube fishing family. interdisciplinary discourses, with farmers markets, such as Linz their creativity. The daily routine work, C. Wiesmayr industry any empty spaces. This is why He continues to fight there like a post- guided herbal- and site-walks, bicycle Südbahnhofmarkt. the running in a hamster wheel of Schwemmland (former: bottomland) modern Don Quixote against powerful tours or the magazine Treib.Gut. requirements and official rules often Getting involved draws attention to the phenomenon monsters in an area apparently ABOUT THE METHOD: leaves one with no time or energy of sensitive space frameworks, the abandoned by God. His struggle is for a Treib.Gut- The harbour magazine Schwemmland‘s long-term strategy with which to change the world. with AREA, the rurban niches. social and more liveable environment. Treib.Gut serves as a medium for applies “1000 small pinpricks“ Often one feels hopeless in executing As a Rurbanist Wiesmayr teaches urban research and acts primarily as to its patient: the segregated change. It raises the question of how The Rurban Niche includes rural and and researches with his association a subversive urban development tool. urban landscape. They search for what happens next: for the machine SITE. urban influences. These are often Schwemmland between the rural and Treib.Gut is a mouthpiece from the opportunities to observe these to wither or to glow for a better residual spaces, gaps, space pods, urban phenomena of this neo-liberal edges towards the city and beyond. slumbering Rurban Niches and then Stay in the familiar environment where environment? wormholes, fallows which for certain dominated landscape . Treib.Gut documents micropotentials* „to pierce“ them, unlocking their one lives, works, lives, love and get reasons, in the short or long term in Rurban Niches. Treib.Gut forces hidden qualities and energies and involved, engage! have escaped mundane industrial communication with politics and astonishing the beholder. Particular «We’re already Be an active citizen 2 and live the uses and thus fallen through the gaps commercial interests. The magazine attention is paid to work from the CHANGE! Actively work on it and think OFFICE PROFILE of the active capitalist system. Six out tackles the territory, which is not inside rather than from the top Christa Müller about it in new ways. Bicycle to work, starting» of seventeen analysed rurban niches picked up by daily media; especially down. A chain reaction is started even if there are no bike paths leading SCHWEMMLAND CLOUD were selected from Bernhard Gilli deeper analysis and longer-term with often unimagined output across to the industrial area. Apply New Work, transparadiso, urban-permaculture, and Christoph Wiesmayr‘s master observations. Treib.Gut documents the inner and outer urban fabric. New Culture «NWNK 3» as a motivating slowfood, derivè-vienna, right to the CHANGE YOUR thesis, and presented publicly. These developments in the area and works Occasionally the patient begins to working model and pursue what you city, gängeviertel hamburg, habitat- six special places were examined on the modern history of the site. wriggle like Frankenstein‘s monster. really really want! Self connecting linz, new work new culture - frithjof and interpreted in cooperation with Often, however, it results in a failed OWN LIFE! with allies 4 , sharing the office with bergmann, allmende kontor - berlin, local stakeholders and international The Green Convoy mobile garden beds „burp“ in the slow cogs of the city peers and get involved the collective klappakademie-peter arlt, urban What can you accomplish here as guests in various ways (e.g. At LinzFest 2013 under the topic administration. But some reactions are affordable vacancy. Look for local issues-vienna, afo, otelo, urban an architect by acting positively in tours, discussions, texts, artistic „Courage!“ Schwemmland organised a always to be expected. conversations, even with those who gardening, hands-on, performance your own environment? What tools interventions, actions, participative bicycle ride bringing “mobile do not speak the same (professional) laboratorim, urban-farm leonding, do we have to hand? What are your events). vegetable-beds“ to new community language and try to see things radio fro, kunstuniversität linz, kf- OPTIMISM own abilities and what are their universität, prof. johanna rholshoven

differently. Make the space stronger Christoph Wiesmayr (1977: Linz, – Sun, 10am 6pm 2016 | Tue until 14th of August 2016, 7pm | duration | opening 9th of June 2 | 8020 Graz | Mariahilferstraße Graz follows ... exhibition at HDA Form – www.isssresearch.com | ISSSresearch&architecture – www.futurearchitectureplatform.org Platform Architecture Future | – www.hda-graz.at Thinnfeld im Palais HDA boundaries? How do you explore new graz, justin winkler, esc-labor graz, where there is no one, and discover Austria), Rurbanist. Studied fields and find other spaces, those die fabrikanten linz, tabakfabrik linz, and grab hold of what is interesting. urban architecture in Graz. In that are left as the Other. How do you isss-berlin, anstiftung erotmis -christa 2012 he founded the association change from the dark side to one Linz map müller, zwischenstadt thomas sieverts 1 Henri Lefebvre Schwemmland with Bernhard Gilli in which meets your core values? How 2 smart citicen; a „manifesto“ for smart citicens, & susanne hauser, something & son- the Linz Harbour district. In 2013 he do you keep something available for based on Dan Hill´s essay, WAAG Society london, donautics-linz, soilalliance, the next generation, letting diversity 3 New Work new Culture; by Frithjof Bergmann founded and has published Treib.Gut, FORM4 Engagez-vous!; Stephane Hessel klimabündnis, keplersalon linz, n°4/10 FOLLOWS »STAGING: KIOSQUE«, 10 Sept. 2011 Christoph Weidinger, Clemens Bauder, Gregor Graf Film documentation: Jakob Kaiser + Magnus Hofmüller

»SOUL-PARKING«, 2014 During the week parking in the industrial area is so much sought after that rent for parking spaces is required. There is thus little or no public attractive zones where workers or service employees may stay undisturbed in breaks without having to consume something. Between 2011-2014 Schwemmland rented its own parking space in the former „Quelle Versand“ Building. This tarmac was most of the time unused, in preference for cycle transport. Suddenly Schwemmland got the idea to make the car park available to the public and without further do set up a raised bed with PERFORMANCE BY MICHELLE BROWN (IRL), PHOTO: WIESMAYR seating. This gift to the environment brought unfortunately only incomprehension and irritation by the landlord and TENNIS COURT AT THE WINTER HARBOUR was removed weeks later due to a car park renovation. Any The tennis court at the winter harbour, which has construction requests to the landlord would have fallen on been occupied by pioneer plants for years, offers deaf ears. a special atmosphere. Schwemmland opened it FAB ROOFTOP OPENING, PHOTO: STADLBAUER SOUL-PARKING, 2014; PHOTO: WIESMAYR »THE MOBILE COUCH«, 2012-2014 temporarily and made it accessible to the public for The mobile couch is provided depending on the user to different situational discussions and performances. ON INDUSTRIAL ROOFS SADNESS AND BEAUTY IN locations on the empty parking lot and used by neighbours In urban areas even a few hectares of PARKING-LOTS »PRETTY:MESSY«, 2 May 2011 open space on industrial roofs hold After 6pm and on weekends parking in »PICNIC AND HAPPENINGS«, 2012-2014 On weekends and summer evenings the empty parking In cooperation with the Kepler Salon; Guest: Manfred Omahna, untapped potential. An interdisciplinary the industrial area gradually deflates. “othering” method. The art of learning to see and understand fortress was converted. the “other”... Anchor: Sabine Keller/Kepler Salon expert audience discussed possible Swept empty asphalt surfaces become future scenarios on sight. barren and spooky. A few transform to flea HOLLABERERFARM – HARBOUR LINZ; PHOTO: URMANN, 2009 »SURROUNDED BY FIELDS, AT THE WATERFRONT«, 2011 market bazaars or test tracks for model »A LOT GOING ON UP THERE«, 8 August 2011 Performance Laboratorium, Performance Festival; car enthusiasts. Schwemmland tried to 10 Sept. 2011 Performance with international artists In cooperation with „Kepler Salon“; AT THE HOLLABERERFARM Organised by: Sibylle Ettengruber, Amel Andessner, make these spaces available to the public Elisa Andessner through small interventions, and to address In the heart of the industrial zone a relic of the former low-lands survived. the right to public space in various ways. First mentioned in 1491, in summer the farm of the last professional fishing family of Linz offers traditional smoked fish out of the Danube. Christoph

Wiesmayr, chairman of Schwemmland supports his family with various inter- SMOKED DANUBE-FISH, PHOTO: CHMARA connecting INNERCITY : OUTSKIRTS Treib.Gut – The harbour- magazine „Treib.Gut“ serves as a medium for Urban Research and acts primarily as a ventions on site. subversive urban development tool. Treib.Gut documents Micropotentials * in Rurban Niches. Treib.Gut forces PICNIC, PHOTO: PIXELKINDER »IS THIS THE LAST CHANCE?« 10 Sept. 2011 communication with politics and commercial interests. Tour, keynote speeches and discussion on the “rurban niches” phenomenon with international guests MUNICIPALITY & POLITICS in the Eastern part of Linz. An event of the Schwemmland initiative and the „afo“ Architecture Forum Upper Austria. - TOUR through the area. Situational tour through the Eastern part of Linz with numerous guests; Barbara Holub (transparadiso-Vienna), Thomas Schneider (NWNK-Vienna), Christoph Laimer (derivè- Vienna), Friedrich Schwarz (botanicalgarden-Linz) and many on-site protagonists. URBAN UPCYCLING “THE YELLOW HOUSE“ ECONOMY & INDUSTRY - KEYNOTE SPEECHES: Prof. Susanne Hauser (GER) + Prof. Thomas Sieverts (GER) “The Paradoxes and the Fall of Man”

»RESILIENCE & AQUAPONICS« since 2011 Together with his brother Franz (cook and last professional fisherman in Linz) Christoph Wiesmayr HUMAN experimented on aquaponic systems with local perch and crayfish. There followed various aquaponic installations at various cultural events.

»RURBAN UPCYCLING - THE YELLOW HOUSE« since 2013 Schwemmland upcycled the attic of „Bellevue“. The former EU-Cultural-Capital project of Fattinger- IN BEYOND, PHOTO: WIESMAYR NATURE Rieper-Orso Architects provided Franz Wiesmayr with a new opportunity. Using components from the lo- cal surroundings Bellevue became The Yellow House, used both as a tavern and for agricultural use. Since 2013 it has been continually adapted.

The Green Convoy Mobile garden beds – At LinzFest 2013 under »COMMUNITYGARDEN: HAFENGARTEN« 2012–2015 PLACE & SPACE the topic „Courage!“ Schwemmland organized a bike ride bringing The first Community Garden in Linz was founded here on a 2000m2 field. On 1 May 2012 the „Hafen- „mobile vegetable-beds“ to new community gardens in the East of garten“ started with about 30 participants and was organized by the association Schwemmland. Linz. These community gardens“Hafengarten“ and “Wachstumsphase“ DEAD MAN, DEAD WOMAN, 2011; „KLAPPAKADEMIE“ PETER ARLT DEAD MAN, DEAD WOMAN, 2012 This community-garden was a role model for other young community garden initiatives in Linz and at the Tobacco Factory were cofounded by Schwemmland. Upper Austria. Schwemmland is looking out for a new area in the harbour. HARBOUR LINZ HAFENGARTEN – HARVEST, PHOTO: WIESMAYR INNER CITY OUTSKIRTS … already part of a global phenomenon »HARBOUR - HIKES«, since 2010 »WILD-HERBS and NEIGHBOURHOOD TOURS« since 2012 of gentrification? Guided by Christoph Wiesmayr for the Creative Region Schwemmland organized many WILD-TOURS through the eastern part of Linz with different professionals. Upper Austria in autumn 2013. City researcher Charles Amongst the international trend driving Landry (GB) considers the harbour to still be an ex- »BEE-KEEPING & HONEY-TASTING« since 2014 attractive waterfront housing, in recent citing zone; „For me the area is interesting because The club „LinzerBiene“ operates city beekeeping hives on special sites such as the Town Hall, the years six hectares of water of the Linz it is unfinished,“ says Landry. This statement could be Cathedral, ... or here at the Hollabererfarm. By “Honey Tasting“ your own taste gets sharpened as you harbour were filled in. The current misinterpreted. For Landry sees this „Unfinished“ very discover the city in a new way. well as a quality that has been untraceable in many „HafenCity“ Master Plan of the Linz AG European cities, or „adjusted“. The question arises HONEY TASTING, PHOTO: MESIC was developed with no involvement of amongst many, how will this rawness be maintained local interests. According to former in the future? LinzAG-Planner employees „The area is to be gradually adjusted“. “Smart City” concepts are on the march and the area will continue to be gentrified by an en- croaching event and property market.

“THE RURBAN PAPERGANO“ 2015, PERFORMANCE BY WIESMAYR, VIDEOSTILL: PUSCH “RED RAG“ 2015, PERFORMANCE BY TANJA BRANDMAYR, PHOTO: WINKLER It is only a matter of time until the au- thentic small structures on the outskirts, SCHWEMMLAND is a globally oriented and regionally ON THE GLIDER AIRFIELD are taken over by Starbucks and Co. active association. Its goal is to protect undeveloped The glider airfield on the eastern outskirts of Linz »ÜBERFLIEGER« 2015-2016 rurban land, remaining areas, “rurban niches“ in the east There are individuals or groups invited to produce offers on an area with 30ha a unique setting. The »HARBOUR MANIFESTO«, public city letter, 2011 EXPEDITION 2013, PHOTO: SCHWEMMLAND of Linz from a global sellout in order to resist commercial interstitial confrontation, random events, alternative Together with different local activists criticized diverse brown-field site, the succession species object orientation and its own performative pressure on these areas. In turn, by preserving them on the periphery and the industrial silhouette in the „filling up“ of the docks. »URBAN DESIGN LAB«, June 6th-8th., 2013 representation. Target are local actions (Glider field The harbour manifesto was published in the Expedition and co-supervision of workshops with they are opened to the urban population as a field of the background offer an open space for special area) that explore knowledge, conditions and city magazine „Die Versorgerin“2011. „Ecosistema Urbano“ (Esp) for an alternative urban possibilities and living space that creates identity. planning-oriented artistic potentials. „ÜberFlieger“ encounters. City and nature are daily in dispute. development at the port. Organized by Creative SETTLEMENT is promoted by Linz Culture. „ÜberFlieger“ is part of COMMERCIAL AREA »DEAD MAN, DEAD WOMAN«, 2012–‚ ... Region Upper Austria, directed by: Roland Krebs URBAN AREA www.schwemmland.net WOODLAND »45 MINUTES INDUSTRIAL ZONE«, GLIDER AIRFIELD, 2011 the „Non-Festival„ collaboration with and by: Tanja The silting up of the docks of Linz sparked a critical (Urban Issues, Vienna). The goal was the broadest Brandmayr, ESC Lab Graz, Melanie Pointner, Simone WATERS 7 texts approaching space and staging. debate among various activists. possible participation of different groups with a mul- HILLS Schwaiger, Christoph Wiesmayr, and the airgliding- GREEN AREA Text fragments in “facets” and „Treib.Gut“, published in 2012. In cooperation with „Klappakademie“ Peter Arlt; tifaceted output. The developed projects were docu- RIPARIAN ZONE clubs of Linz. PROJECT AREA Written and read by: Tanja Brandmayr 6 August 2011 Film documentation: Georg Ritter, dorf.tv mented in the first issue of the „Treib.Gut“ magazine. LINZ MAP SCHWEMMLAND FORMINDUSTRY FOLLOWS

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Editors Sponsors Curators, exhibition- and graphic design Contributors The copyrights of all texts and images remain with the authors. FORM FOLLOWS... OPTIMISTIC PRACTICE London - GREAT BRITAIN finance JACK Form follows finance: the vocabulary often used to control complex or architecture are designed to enforce gold is itself a source of profit over 50 of contemporary design has contingent forms, which might be as hegemonic social power relations. years. Gold also happens to be one become a linguistic minefield: sophisticated as the engineering logic Neoliberalism, currently. of the most sustainable materials computational, digital, algorithmic and underpinning a stadium roof, or as available, as it is a noble metal: it parametric design are all used fairly banal as the regulatory dimensions The Ingot, which formed the project at doesn’t corrode. interchangeably, even though they of fire stairs. Parametric design is the core of Real Estates: Life Without have extremely specific distinctions. about accelerating and simplifying the Debt (Bedford Press, 2014) presents an What this demonstrates is that the Computational design, for example, is design process. extension to the field of architecture. It design of financial parameters is a now a redundant description. I learnt took large volumes of data concerning fundamentally political project, and to draw using the Rotring Isograph, a By contrast, algorithms are functional the space, time and cost of housing one therefore that should be integral to finicky pen requiring perfect verticality, expressions (in the mathematical and rearranged them into an algebra architecture. This is not the architect- the steady hand of a neurosurgeon sense) and describe interrelations of functional values. It’s main ambition as-developer, which by and large is and the patience of a particularly that have an abstract form. The was to explore how changing the just a figure enforcing the status quo, SELF tolerant and good humoured saint. most common error of those period of time we use to finance but rather the architect-as-financier, I don’t know anyone under 40 who using algorithms in architectural architecture can change its conditions which frames the architect as the habitually draws this way — and why design is to think, à la Frei Otto, of occupancy and material form. It designer of economic ideologies and would you? I’m not nostalgic, the that their most useful applications showed that a property bond lasting forms of life. computer is progress. are stylistic, structural or aesthetic. 50 years could provide a high rate of In fact, as developers well know, interest to investors, an extremely BIO OFFICE PROFILE OPTIMISM It is, however, important to be precise the true value of the algorithm high quality build (over a half century when talking about design that is concerns financial efficiency. And it any maintenance costs come out Jack Self (1987) is an architect and I founded the Real Estate Architecture Albert Camus, in the opening algorithmic or parametric (not to is important to remember that fiscal of your profit, so environmental writer based in London. He is director Laboratory (REAL) in 2015 as an chapter of The Rebel muses on the be confused with parametricism, interrelationships — of debt, capital, sustainability is extremely important) of the REAL foundation and curator of architectural foundation with a double essence of the human condition. which only refers to Schumacher’s returns and appreciation — are always and a very low rent level: just 46% of the 2016 British Pavilion at the Venice mission of critical inquiry and cultural He says what makes humanity movement). The difference is political assertions. Everyone with the London City rate. The tower was Biennale. production. We conduct original different from every other animal research to promote innovation spatial versus non-spatial design: a mortgage (literally, a “death grip”) gold-plated because the fluctuating His writing has appeared in is that it rejects its own nature. No computational parameters are most knows that the terms of how we fund (but historically increasing) price of Architectural Design, The Guardian, in the built environment, and the fox wakes up in the morning and New Philosopher, 032c and Dezeen, methodology uses analysis and as well as elsewhere. Jack‘s first critique to present bold propositions asks what it means to be a fox, or book was Real Estates: Life Without and credible alternatives to whether it is possible to be a better Debt (Bedford Press 2014), now in its conventional practice. I would like to fox – it simply gets on with its foxy second printing. use my work with REAL to influence behaviour. This is true of all other He is contributing editor for the how and where we live, and the animals: they don’t reflect or auto- Architectural Review, where he has conditions of that life. critique. By contrast, humans reject worked in a number of capacities what it means to be human: we are since 2009. As an editor for Strelka Real estate describes our political and all rebels. Press (2011-13), he developed the economic bond to property. This is a relationship determined by categories first print-on-demand books on As the twentieth century’s world architecture. of ownership, different forms of labour, order slowly tears itself apart, Jack founded Fulcrum, a free weekly and the complex power structures “pursuing architecture and the third that make up society. The focus of my we are entering into a new millennium.“ Fulcrum remains the work, and REAL, is the pragmatics of paradigm defined by zero-growth, world‘s most read student publication higher quality, more affordable and fundamentalisms of every kind, about architecture and has been better-managed cities. My dedication widespread civil wars (often cold widely exhibited - most notably at the to spatial equality encompasses war proxies), environmental 2012 Venice Biennale. the financing and construction of degradation, global warming, mass Jack holds a Bachelors of Architecture architecture, its terms of ownership migration and staggering wealth from the University of New South and its contribution to standards of inequality. It can be easy to get Wales (Sydney 2007), a Diploma of living. My work bridges diverse fields, depressed, or feel the weight of from architecture, development, Architecture from the Architectural humanity’s desperation. Association (2014) and a Master‘s urbanism and industry, to art, design, in Philosophy from the University of economics and politics. London (2012). His MA dissertation I am optimistic because there examined the morality of neoliberal REAL’s public programme includes is no alternative: to reject the economic theory. cultural events, exhibitions and the condition we find ourselves As a designer, he has worked for publishing of original and historical subjected to and believe that the several international firms, amongst texts about architecture and real world could be better is integral them Ateliers Jean Nouvel in Paris estate. Our flagship magazine “The to my understanding of my own and London (2007-09). His clients and Real Review” presents independent humanity. What becomes important partners include developers, housing architectural editorial to a general then is how I propose to change trusts and public institutions (most readership. REAL is a collaborative the world, and how I imagine the organisation, with light bureaucracy recently the British Council and the efficacy of my own agency.

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Cities were and remain the centre claimed vegetation as a necessary the existing city to an invisible city, production and it turned out that of innovation, exchange, interests, condition in living environments and combining urban and nature and very few newly built housing estates culture and art. Increasing believed in the right to enjoy a portion giving back green land. take into consideration our changing urbanisation is taking place all over of natural space, not just a balcony but society. For younger generations the world. In highly urbanised areas a real terrace where trees could grow. the idea of profit is becoming more the understanding of landscape The idea is to important than living in properties and changes. Landscape is not an As a contemporary position, Sou sharing is only seen as a pragmatic

untouched natural area on the Fujimoto envisions in his Energy way to reduce expenses. We designed © Simon Wendler outskirts of cities anymore, it is more Forest project a proposal for the 21st change the a new housing typology of sharing an important part of the city, which Century Energy Station. A large scale communities, which condensed contributes to a high quality of life and structure as place where light, wind, “Google Earth” qualities of single family houses with FUTURE a better urban climate. But above all and rich vegetation mixes with the urban lifestyle in an open structure. people change the relationship and activity of people, vehicles, insects and view of Vienna This approach provides a flexible way awareness to their cities. Even if we animals. He transforms the energy to customise a mobile lifestyle. are aware of the positive effects which station of the 20th Century, formed nature is able to provide in cities, we as a place of efficiency and transit, radically by The presence of nature in an artificial pay almost no attention to the complex into a place of complexity combining organism filled with program and subtle ways in which architecture qualities of road and square. Located adding a layer evolves a next evolutionary step and nature can relate to each other. in the centre of cities like Tokyo and of urbanism. Understanding the History showed us extraordinary Rome Fujimoto’s imaginary Energy based on a new city as a field of possibilities and examples of visionary projects which Forest opens a door to new programs opportunities, saturated with program explore new models of coexistence and typologies of activity and housing typology, and nature, opens a wide area for between buildings and nature. Lots of communication for highly urbanised new typologies. Any urban program those concepts seem to be forgotten. areas. while keeping the existing “charm” interacting with nature in a symbiotic GROUPMSC ARCH. ANNA JURKIEWICZ of urban life on the streets of Vienna. way, creates unknown hybrid forms BIO Born in Poland. Graduated at the OFFICE PROFILE OPTIMISM The mixed use building complex As initial project of our practice, we Combining the idea of a big scale and reacts to basic human needs. Architecture and Urban Planning “Cité des Étoiles” in Ivry sur Seine, developed an “Urban Super Forest” transformation of the roof-level into an Exploring, inventing and thinking this Super Future Group is an architectural Faculty at the Silesian University 2 co-founders What about our optimism? Paris 1970-1975 manifests Jean contributing to such understanding urban forest in accordance to human superposition of URBI and NATURE office based on the international of Technology in Poland. As a free- 1 basecamp (A) In times of crises it’s fundamental to Renaudie’s antithesis to functionalism. of city. The fact that growth of cities scale and how inhabitants would live opens unexpected ways of creating experience of the co-founders Ania lancer she was working with several 1 escape-shelter (PL) understand the power of optimism. He converted the understanding of a all over the world is connected with in this new environment. We analysed future cites as place for people to live, Jurkiewicz and Robert Lamprecht. foundations and architects, she 1 webpage Crises refine life and make people city into a living organism of diversity, extending into “green land”, we the status quo of the current housing work, socialise and exist. Focused on improving living was also involved in organization 1049 facebook friends discover what they are. Recognising whose parts are closely related. He decided to flip this reality by converting conditions and thinking about future exhibitions and architectural 25 pinterest followers a changing world as an opportunity to developments of cities, their mission workshops aimed at improving of the 1 EASA - European Architecture create a livable future is fundamental is to explore new ways of responding public space and promoting Polish Student Assembly - network for our collaboration. Driven by to a changing world. Open to new architecture. She participated in 1 table (100 x 326cm) positive response of an optimistic unexpected ideas, entirely dedicated many competitions and workshops 6 chairs approach, motivation is generated to architecture and urbanism, Super at the local and international level. 1 arm chair automatically. All effort and energy Future Group is entering unknown Finalist and winner of the International 1 sideboard is focused on finding solutions, terrain in architectural production. People’s Choice Award in the 5th 1 container answering questions, and creating Their initial project “Urban Super Advanced Architecture Contest, IaaC. 1 couch statements in an inspiring way. With Forest” is a statement for a future of Member of the EASA- European 35 lfm shelf system - prototype (design optimism you get control about your sustainable and ecological change Architecture Students Assembly by superfuture group) destiny. Choosing an optimistic point to transform our cities into green in 2011-2014. She gained valuable 215 books (109-DE / 77-PO / 59-EN) of view, we are able to change our life oasis of urban life. Urban Super practical experience in Poland, Turkey 417 magazines and world in the way we want it to be. Forest is recently shown in several and Austria. 2,5 plants Being aware of having choices, we are exhibitions like Architecture of 1 picture - archigram instant city highly motivated to work creatively Necessity Exhibition 2016 at Virserum ARCH. DI ROBERT LAMPRECHT 4 pictures – nude drawings on what we want in life. Challenging Art Museum / Sweden, Treehousing Born in Austria. Graduated at the Graz 2 stamps (civil engineer / office) a complex world, our optimism is not Competition Exhibition at the FAO University of Technology. His master- 1 house sculpture blind. We are realistic in what we are United Nations Headquarter in Rome thesis “Theatre on Tötenhengst” 1 table lamp doing and unrealistic in what we are and Form Follows... Exhibition at was winner of GAD-Awards 07/08. 2 coffee machines dreaming. Thinking and collaborating House of Architecture Graz. He was working on several winning 1 workstation iMac on a future we believe in, is keeping competitions for GS-architects and 1 workstation Toshiba us on track in our daily work. The Atelier Thomas Pucher as Sinfonia 1 laptop answer for difficulties is facing them Varsovia, LWL Rehabilitation Clinic 1 iPad Pro & iPencil and finding a positive perspective. SUPER FUTURE GROUP … Dortmund, MP09 Headquarters 1 Synology NAS 6TB - Datenspeicher The secret key of change is to act. … BRINGS NATURE BACK TO THE CITY Pachleitner Graz. As leading architect 5 USB sticks Thinking and talking is not enough. … CONNECTS URBAN AND NATURE of execution department and 1 inkjet printer A4/A3 Our optimism is believing in positive … INVENTS NEW TYPOLOGIES project manager at Atelier Thomas 1 inkjet printer A2 change. We believe in our visions. We … LISTENS TO PEOPLE 1 styrocutter believe in a better future. We believe in … INCREASES LIVING QUALITIES Pucher for LWL Rehabilitation Clinic 1 drilling machine a SUPER FUTURE. – Sun, 10am 6pm 2016 | Tue until 14th of August 2016, 7pm | duration | opening 9th of June 2 | 8020 Graz | Mariahilferstraße Graz follows ... exhibition at HDA Form – www.isssresearch.com | ISSSresearch&architecture – www.futurearchitectureplatform.org Platform Architecture Future | – www.hda-graz.at Thinnfeld im Palais HDA … CREATES SPACES TO SOCIALISE Dortmund and Residential Towers 1 tool box … IS ANTI DOGMATIC Viertel Zwei Plus Rondo Vienna he … RESPONSES TO A CHANGING WORLD gained fundamental experience 2 smartphones A / 1 smartphone PL … EXPLORES LOCAL NEEDS in construction processes. State- 1 office credit-card … CREATES SPACES FOR PEOPLE approved civil engineer and member 1 office bank-card … BELIEVES IN A SUPER FUTURE of the architects chamber for Styria 3 bicycles (city / mountain / mountain) and Carinthia since February 2016. 1 car (A) / 1 backup car (PL) FORM FOLLOWSn°6/10 FORM FOLLOWS

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We work in neighbourhoods that Our practice builds on the capacity of urbanists call ‘informal’. However, people to develop their own habitats, we never quite understood what the to create their own contexts. We term was supposed to mean, when recognise the role that people in it is affixed to settlements that are homegrown settlements play in incredibly complex and diverse. improving their own condition. This is the first step towards supporting Etymologically speaking, formal them in their efforts to give form to the entities follow the rules of logic. places they inhabit. When prefixed with ‘in’, the meaning is inverted, and by extension what is Instead of inventing the ‘city of the informal defies logic. It implies that future’ (smart or otherwise) from something is irrational, unpredictable, the white slate of university labs or and thus potentially dangerous. At architects’ studios, we must learn how the extreme, the informal denotes to take the existing city as a starting the uncivilised. Phantasmagorical point. Our task as urbanists and informal settlements are the anti-city inhabitants is to keep on improving the – a contemporary avatar of the wild city we inherited by making it our own. forests of the middle ages.

The myths and fantasies surrounding We reject the utopia the notion of the informal and the moral justification for intervention are reminiscent of the colonial enterprise of the ‘future’ with its that justified itself as a civilisational mission. inane idealism and

naïve detachment from Our approach has As practitioners, we must be reality. Instead we BIO OFFICE PROFILE OPTIMISM pragmatic, daring and optimistic. been to recognise and We must learn to deal with forms embrace the present We started urbz about 8 years ago, urbz is an experimental platform Statement about our pessimism of emergence that are outside the validate previously after a workshop we organised for the production and sharing and our optimism for the future of scope of architectural practice and – regardless of its together in Dharavi, Mumbai. At the of knowledge on cities and architecture actually draw inspiration from them. unidentified urban time, Rahul had just moved to Goa neighbourhoods. This necessarily implies another how screwed up it is and Matias was still in Tokyo. After Perhaps it is not so much that relationship to one’s own creativity. our first encounter in Mumbai, we It operates from Mumbai and Goa architecture doesn’t have a future, forms as well as created the blog airoots.org and in India and has branches in Brazil, but the notion of the future itself that It is not about imposing one order onto - and engage with it started developing our own approach, Colombia and Switzerland. has become anachronistic. According another, or bringing more rationality the spontaneous which we call ‘urbanology’. It combines to Bruno Latour, we lost the future into an existing context or process, but wholeheartedly. anthropology, urban planning and It organises collaborative workshops somewhere in the twentieth century. about connecting one’s own expertise organisational our passion for places and the people around the world, bringing together We are only left with an “avenir”. with the knowledge of actors who are who inhabit them. We always wanted residents, artists, urbanists and rooted in their daily lives. principles that drive urbz to be an open, experimental and activists. L’avenir is what comes to us, as experiential platform, a vehicle for opposed to the future, which we If knowledge is a function of knowing learning and engagement. We now In Mumbai, urbz works with local were foolishly projecting –and which and experience, then actors rooted development of have collaborators in India, Brazil, actors to design and build within is now speaking back to us. What in their realities are the best starting Columbia, Greece, Switzerland and the communities, collaboratively and seemed to be externalities that could point. habitats. US. We can’t imagine ourselves doing incrementally. be ignored or dealt with later, are anything else! now overwhelming us, and we must The process of recognition involves Rather than offering wholesale cope with the messy world we have a reorientation of our gaze, and the solutions to “rehabilitate” slum somehow created. way we interpret and deal with the dwellers, urbz works to marginally world around us. It is about framing improve the context in which people The notion that we could expand our the reality in way that allows us and live. present and project ourselves towards everyone else to become legitimate a future of our own making has given actors. It is about the acceptance urbz believes that residents are way to something else –which is not experts of their neighbourhoods. Their of our world as an unfinished and inexorably tragic. Anticipating what is – Sun, 10am 6pm 2016 | Tue until 14th of August 2016, 7pm | duration | opening 9th of June 2 | 8020 Graz | Mariahilferstraße Graz follows ... exhibition at HDA Form – www.isssresearch.com | ISSSresearch&architecture – www.futurearchitectureplatform.org Platform Architecture Future | – www.hda-graz.at Thinnfeld im Palais HDA imperfect, collective work in process. everyday experience of the places, coming next, requires no less creativity And taking part in that process. where they live and work, constitute an and foresight than drawing the future essential knowledge for planning and on a blank page. urban development. FORM FOLLOWSn°7/10 most exuberant days of the twentieth future and only an avenir, it must Future of century in New York, Chicago or be completely reinvented. We must Hong Kong, seems to function better accept that no matter how grand and Architecture without architects at all. Speculative wonderful, architectural practice as development doesn’t demand design we’ve learned it ultimately belongs skill as much as accounting and legal to art history and into big white box expertise. Given the lack of importance museums. given to architecture and design Parametric urban design will not at the high-end of the construction save us – whatever some generation spectrum, one would expect that x prophets may be preaching. architects would be rushing where Supersising the architectural objects, they are most needed: in slums, where and adding infinite internal complexity people struggle with such fundamental thanks to supercomputing capacities, needs as ventilation, light and space will not be enough to respond to a optimisation. But in fact, no architects challenge that really comes from operate in slums. They are not outside the practice and outside the Seen from Mumbai, an urban equipped for it. When architects come project. Gated communities, university agglomeration of about 20 million to a slum, it is usually to plan what will campuses, Special Economic people, which generates 20% of the come post eviction. With good reason, Zones, and smart cities are neurotic Indian GDP, architecture seems like a local residents see them with much responses to the prevailing feeling nice idea, which along with countless suspicion. among architects and planners that other social ambitions, has found no The way we once conceived they are losing control. resonance in the contemporary world. architecture, the tools we used, its very Perhaps it is not so much that language – seem totally ill-fitted to architecture doesn’t have a future, address the issues that most people but the notion of the future itself that are confronted with in this day and age. has become anachronistic. According to Bruno Latour, we lost the future somewhere in the twentieth century. We are only left with an “avenir”. L’avenir is what comes to us, as opposed to the future, which we were foolishly projecting –and which is now speaking back to us. What seemed to be externalities that could As architects and urbanists who be ignored or dealt with later, are now belong to a generation bred in overwhelming us, and we must now twentieth century institutions and cope with the messy world we have whatever is left of them in the early somehow generated. Academic institutions in charge of twenty-first century, we must make a The notion that we could expand our producing architects seem to exist a conscious effort to radically transform present and project ourselves towards space-time warp, where the future our practice. We have no choice, but to a future of our own making, has given could still be conceived as a total be even more imaginative in the way way to something else –which is not project – architectural, social, political. we use whatever resources we are left inexorably tragic. Anyhow, anticipating Architectural education is adrift and the with and whatever technology we can what is coming next requires no less same is true of architectural museums scavenge. creativity and foresight than drawing and the galleries. These white boxes The best way to deal with what’s the future on a blank page. only seem to be there to reassure us coming is to accept that we can’t build Along with architecture, the idea of that there are still stories worth being our way into the future, and that we the city, as an engine for growth, as an told; architectural fairy tales which we must engage with the world as it is – equaliser, as the locus of modernity, would love to believe. They show good messed up, toxic and unpredictable. seems irremediably bankrupt. work for a good world, simple and We should drop all claims to Overstretched infrastructures and clearly delimited. superiority and learn to work with the corrupt institutions are weighing on us Nothing illustrates the disconnection context as a living material. Context all. The city is not designed by anyone, between contemporary architectural shapes us and we shape it back. We but rather abandoned to the tyrannical practice and the context of Mumbai’s must invent an imperfect practice for rule of a brand of ultra-liberalism slums better than the use of the an imperfect world. Let’s not reinvent never seen before. ‘plan’ – a device indispensable to yesterday’s beautiful but unexciting 60% of Mumbai residents are said to the transformation of architectural utopias. be living in slums. That means that projects into architectural objects. In As practitioners, we must be they are in effect left to cope on their a context of infinite complexity where pragmatic, daring and optimistic. own, with quasi-inexistent support responsiveness is everything, the We must learn to deal with forms from the state, and quasi-ubiquitous plan serves almost no purpose. This of emergence that are outside the oppression from institutional agents. is precisely because it is based on the scope of architectural practice and At the other end of the spectrum, high- naïve and dangerous belief that you actually draw inspiration from them. rises are mushrooming like there is no can erase a little bit of the present This necessarily implies another tomorrow, following only the socially world and replace it with another relationship to one’s own creative and economically irrational logic of piece, which will fit right in. But it won’t agency. It is not about imposing real estate speculation, and defying the fit because the architect comes from a one order onto another, or bringing capacity of people to actually buy the different background. more rationality into an existing local housing stock being produced. Half a An architect walking in a Mumbai practice of construction, but about million flats are left vacant in Mumbai, slum is like a ‘Prawn’ in District 9. A connecting one’s own expertise with which is one of the most densely lost alien, whose power is reduced to the knowledge of other actors who are populated cities in the world. zero, because nothing in this world fits rooted in their imminent reality. Even this world of new tall buildings, what he purposed to do. If architecture FORM FOLLOWSwhich emulates and exceeds the is to survive at all in a world with no

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Editors Sponsors Curators, exhibition- and graphic design Contributors The copyrights of all texts and images remain with the authors. FORM FOLLOWS... OPTIMISTIC PRACTICE Vienna - AUSTRIA daily life J. BECKER, Everyday events An omnipresent are observable provision of and measurable service results in duration in a plural and frequency. society with Together they differing everyday F. SAMMER compose a structures. perceivable An unusual daily routine was practiced by the architect Richard Buckminster Fuller. In 1932, TIME magazine rhythmic form. reported on his Dymaxion (dynamic – maximum - tension) system of In the context of Bedroom Exodus, sleeping: for two years he split his we’re not really interested in physical daily amount of sleep into four smaller objects as res extensa but in events periods spread equally over 24 hours. or actions that are distinguishable by Fuller described this time as the their temporal structure. The scale most “vigorous and alert condition” of our observations is set for the he ever enjoyed. Applying his design L. VEJNIK everyday. principle directly to his own body, the adjustment of the daily schedule If you know its patterns of recurrence, can be seen as the most substantial you’re able to affect daily habits and implementation of the Dymaxion their rhythms consciously. On one concept. hand we’re tied up in such forms every day because we accept them as This made us curious and we tried to determined structure of time itself, adopt a reasonable sleeping pattern to The first considerations of Bedroom on the other we pursue our own our very own habits. BIO exodus started with a design project at OFFICE PROFILE OPTIMISM individual habits. In that way we all the Institute of Architecture and Design shape the pattern of our societies daily Bedroom Exodus is a project-specific at the TU Vienna in 2013. Subsequently s l o w s p a c e s Since in different areas of every day rituals. Determined by diverse facts, By acquiring a research collective - founded by the project was continued as an to pause where others rush through. life, social turnovers happen right now, circumstances, things which are all Jerome Becker, Florian Sammer independent field of research. With the we’d like to experience and examine related to a moment of time, the form polyphasic rhythm and Lukas Vejnik - with a focus on successful participation at „Superscape b l o w n u p t i m e these changes in our fields of study of everyday life follows a complex sleep and its localization. Since the 2014“ the project „ZzZ – Schlafkuturelle to question daily rituals. and its close topics. Besides traditional network of zeitgebers. we experienced beginning of the investigations in 2013 Revolution“ was awarded with an research, a direct confrontation and the exchange with researchers from honourable mention and was exhibited e x t e n d a b l e i d e a s interaction with and in public spaces is Time data which structure our daily other disciplines - such as sociology, at the Vienna Designweek 2014. Since to develop thoughts that do not end in a still the essential source of inspiration lives experienced a fundamental an extreme anthropology, sleep research and 2015, the Schütte-Lihotzky research cul-de-sac. for our work. Furthermore, we profit change in the last century. The contemporary history - was an integral fellowship by BMUKK permits from interdisciplinary discussions and dictate of synchronicity caused by deformation of part of the work process. for us an in-depth research. With value the content and its connections industrial revolution is coming to interventions and events we try to raise to current social issues. This is the an end and disappears rapidly. In a our conventional The focus is currently set on awareness for the topic. way we can perceive architecture global market economy hours of work architecture and the spatial differently, which creates a new and and entertainment are becoming confrontation with the „occupation The main thoughts on the topic where optimistic approach for our practice. increasingly disconnected from a fixed patterns of of rest“, the relationship between published in an essay in PLAT journal schedule. behaviour. sleeping and habitation as well as the 4.5 by Rice School of Architecture. Although our ideas are not comparable investigation of atypical situations, The designs for the ideas of a to the utopian phantasies of the The fulfilment Similar to Fullers tensegrity where sleep is consumed outside public sleeping infrastructure were 1960ies, we basically consider structures, sleep is no longer the walls of the apartment. The exhibited at the Ars Electronica Linz architecture as a tool to facilitate daily of our needs is the foundation for continuous starting point is the consideration of in September 2015. In May 2016, we life. Instead of global designs, we wakefulness. It is minimized by current sleep practices. In order to organized the symposium „Bedroom believe in a small utopia, happening almost completely perfectly distributing the load of draw a picture of the current state, Exodus“ at Mobiles Stadtlabor in in the everyday – observable for wakefulness on several bracing we analyse historical trends, socio- Vienna. In addition to a lecture of Dr. everybody – influenced by every periods of rest. This has also spatial cultural backgrounds and diverse Hannah Ahlheim - expert on sleeping possible agent.

detached from consequences on the circumstances in cultures of sleep. We diagnose a history - and an interview with Marie – Sun, 10am 6pm 2016 | Tue until 14th of August 2016, 7pm | duration | opening 9th of June 2 | 8020 Graz | Mariahilferstraße Graz follows ... exhibition at HDA Form – www.isssresearch.com | ISSSresearch&architecture – www.futurearchitectureplatform.org Platform Architecture Future | – www.hda-graz.at Thinnfeld im Palais HDA which sleep is consumed. Questioning strong correlation between current Staver / PureDoxyk - figurehead of specific opening conventional daily rhythms brings up changes in a global work environment the Polyphasic Community in the USA a change of perspective on the relation and changes in sleeping habits. This - we presented our investigations on hours and between sleep and habitation. interaction causes a particularly critical sleeping places in specific conditions examination of polyphasic sleep in private and public spaces. concepts in meritocracy. FORM FOLLOWSlocations. n°8/10 n o ti c e fl re

e INPUT x se p e r e u u r q i ti co m ri is c e d n t curios SLEEPING IN PUBLIC: was finding out about social acceptance for bodies at rest in exposed situations. h A FORM OF c i This led to a deeper understanding of ar ty e ACTIVE PASSIVISM. the city and its „sleepability“. res By practicing a form of active passivism, Beside research and interdisciplinary we confronted ourselves with spatial, OUTPUT exchange with scientists from different socio-cultural and legal issues of public a space. This change of perspective leads c fields like anthropology, sociology, t to different forms of output, that are i o history and medicine, the self-attempt n is a key component in our work. never considered as a final result. In a Searching for fieldlines of rest – that process of constant iteration, we try to SELF- was the preliminary intention, when it unravel complexity within the ordinary. ATTEMPT came to our first sleeping-experiments in Vienna back in 2014. By doing this we e questioned the organisation of daily life valua se tio in its spatial and temporal aspects. One lf-a n wa ren aim of changing our sleeping-habits ess ch ang e o f p ers pec FORM FOLLOWStive

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Who are they? How can they benefit Form Follows Form Follows Form Follows from a new urban scheme? What forms of participatory architecture Crisis. Experiment. Collaboration. can be implemented for each specific case? For the projects I have been It is of great relevance to consider Form should not follow a predefined At the core of any successful scheme part of, this regularly took the form crisis as a main initiator of change. theory and rules but derive from lies the question of collaboration. The of meetings and events with local Although we might feel trapped into a experimentation. Experiment as a making and evolution of architecture residents to establish a strong vicious circle, disadvantaged conditions first approach to a project. This, by and urban environments can only dialogue and get ideas from them as become a prime requirement and no means, suggests turning our happen if people with different well a lively presence on site for long fertile ground for developing new back to the past nor precluding initial backgrounds come together to periods of time. Form comes from SCALETTI optimistic approaches. We should perceptions related to a project, but it face a particular challenge. The the bottom rather than the top, from re-question the validity of past models rather suggests the validity of testing architect might have the theoretical engaged citizens rather than detached and promote a radical shift in the new ideas through research processes and technical knowledge on how to decision makers. way architecture is created today. and direct action. Throughout my work, design buildings and cities, but others Throughout my projects there is this ethnographic experience has proved might be more familiar with an area The architect is in a position to mediate imminent pressure of responding to successful in understanding the or residents of it, be professionals between the users, the residents and complex situations, and in particular to needs and constraints of each specific from other disciplines or just have anyone involved in the design process. the current London housing problem, context and immersing myself in real a different kind of knowledge and I choose this way of working as I think with its related repercussions. If life conditions. The main reason for interest in relation to a situation. I you learn and come up with more building more houses or changing choosing such a methodology, while believe the first collaboration to be interesting and successful ideas if you current policies and then fail to solve developing my projects, is that I get established should be with future merge different forms of knowledge the issue of providing adequate living to experience a particular situation users. and opinions. conditions for all, we must then come first hand and play the role of the user photography, the organisation of events up with ingenious ideas on the way while simultaneously spending enough BIO and interviews to collect valuable OFFICE PROFILE OPTIMISM we inhabit urban settings. Zip City: time to understand the dynamics of a feedback, and even performances My first resource is my body; it allows We live in a period dominated by Houseless Not Homeless moves away place and getting to know the people in I am an architectural and urban where specific topics were discussed me uncertainty and pessimism coming from the traditional model of housing the area. designer who has been living in front of diverse audiences. to read, from a growing awareness of the limits and promotes a collective lifestyle in different European and South draw, of our current economic system and its without dwellings, where the concepts In this sense, I also think this way of American countries before setting I tend to use London as the ground move, consequent crisis. of ownership, sharing and home are working gives the possibility to be up my practice in London. Between for my research as it is one of the think, reformulated. confronted to the unexpected, which the hours spent working full time in most interesting examples of cities communicate, Although I might often be influenced by always makes us see something under urban design, I undertake independent undergoing major regeneration and perceive, this currents of negativity, I explore the a new and different light, opening up projects and research, largely as an is struggling to successfully offer or sense things. benefits and opportunities presented new perspectives. extension of my previous university adequate living conditions to all its work at the Royal College of Art, residents. I believe this scenario is an I have external ones that regularly help by these situations. Coming out of me develop a project; possibly one of the worst financial In Zip City, equipped with only a investigating issues of housing and exciting opportunity for architects who a pen and a pencil, crisis, we are in a position from which medium size backpack, I embarked citymaking in cities. are forced to think of new approaches a camera, we should see crisis as an opportunity upon an expedition to explore the for inclusion in our cities and to a sketchbook, rather than an obstacle, as a chanceto main quest posed by the project: How The experience at this art institution redefine the role of the profession. a video camera, set up new values and start building can we re-imagine an urban system has offered me the opportunity to test a shelf full of books, upon them. This could only be a of living without houses that favours new methods of research that could or a cafe. challenging but exciting position as we inclusion and still responds to our be applied to architecture and in urban I have external ones that I use not so are forced to think laterally to move desire for the comforts of a home? settings. One of the most relevant to often; forward. Here are some of the many This experiment of living without a my work is ethnography. Although hostels, questions we should address. What house and moving around the city we might sometimes associate hotels, are the mistakes to learn from? What has allowed me to get an insight and ethnographic research to the fields of shelters, new forms of living and building cities gain awareness of many challenges sociology and anthropology, I believe or other people’s places. can arise from this? Who should be that would have not being possible it is becoming increasingly important And I have unexpected resources; involved in the citymaking process and through a different methodology. For to adopt such a method of working in a growing collection of unplanned the architecture resulting from this? instance, questions such as “what architecture to better understand the encounters, makes me feel at home?” or “what is peculiarities of specific contexts. valuable experiences, Taking the London housing crisis as my body relationship with unfamiliar and more to come. a starting point for the project, Zip places?” came up to my mind once I This approach of immersing oneself City takes an optimistic approach for was playing the role of the user and into real life situations is recurrent dealing with this scenario. It questions started noticing interesting aspects for throughout my work, where depending whether the possible solution for the project. All this body of research on the type of project, I develop and the housing problem lies in building then led to a spatial proposal. The form test particular methodologies that I more houses or if instead, a complete of the project was almost completely believe might be the most appropriate redefinition and consideration of the informed by the experiment. ones. While developing the project Zip City, rather than coming up with a concept of home presents a more set of predefined rules and theories, adequate response. It promotes a – Sun, 10am 6pm 2016 | Tue until 14th of August 2016, 7pm | duration | opening 9th of June 2 | 8020 Graz | Mariahilferstraße Graz follows ... exhibition at HDA Form – www.isssresearch.com | ISSSresearch&architecture – www.futurearchitectureplatform.org Platform Architecture Future | – www.hda-graz.at Thinnfeld im Palais HDA an important time was dedicated to completely new life without dwellings research, using first hand experience with spaces accommodated for to explore the notion of home and our current and changing needs, understand it through the user’s taking advantage of technological experience. Other ethnographic improvements as well as people’s methodologies have involved writing, increasing ability to adapt to places. FORM FOLLOWSn°9/10 FORM FOLLOWS

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ruralForm is being strangled and is S. NEVES desperately following some air. We follow the

Today we are led to believe that it is RURAL, we impossible to design in isolation from the larger systems of production, and CLOSE-UP, and we that to intervene meaningfully with design, we must take account of a multitude of layers, scales, phenomena SLOW DOWN. and ideas, to think globally, to produce We melt with the inhabitants, put the to “everyone”. hands-on and co-create a local self- paradigm. No abstract principles, no We came to believe that form is stuck generic processes, we take time, and in a pyramid system. Steering are the co-create them too. F. ESTRELA top profit-driven economies, seeking for global profit opportunities, ordering Co-creating based on interdisciplinary their technocracy laboratories to crate and not specialization, understanding profit… it means: to create the needs. that housing is not just about a Global generic needs, profitable needs. house, and, if we want to intervene Led to product productivity and put any meaningfully it’s necessary to move particular long-winded need under an beyond the traditional overlap of invisibility cloak. specialties domains. And immersing on the community, co-creating and co-building, improving the population’s But then we found tools to re-shape it for a continuous updating in the face of successive rural! needs. Places where Two types of co-creation at the end melted in just one: the pursuit of co- BIO Filipe Estrela OFFICE PROFILE OPTIMISM operation in-between technocracy and form can find I’m a Portuguese architect, master local informal 1:1 synergies. Putting We‘ve been thinking together since Internet, a lot of internet, to know about We admit we are powerless over the hands on the dough, merging degree by the Faculdade de 2008, but we have worked separately Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto. the world, the context, the moment, to urbanisation, and that our lives are some clean air roles, dropping the ‘-lonialism’ and in other projects until 2015. Actually stay away and be aware becoming unmanageable. taking the ‘Co-‘. Being aware that only During my last year, I was selected to we have been thinking, working, living, represent the faculty in the Campus Books, technical books for a deep We made a fearless moral inventory and transcend if inhabitants are at the forefront of all travelling and having fun together knowledge about materials, processes, about urbanisation, and we admit that decisions, the paradigm will thrive. Development Forum – Ecole Hõtelière since 2008, and that’s why architecture de Lausanne with my thesis project. logics, forms, sustainability and all the exact nature of it will increasingly to a new form for us is not just a job nor has set time I worked 3 years in the Portuguese their small technical details make matters worse. An engagement with the singular or place. Paper, cardboard, clay, drawings, Switch on: We don’t want to be stuck in requirements of a place.A local self- studio Serôdio Furtado Arquitectos, in Porto, and in 2015 I went to India to models to imagine the urban tautology. of autonomy paradigm that follows human nature Last year, driven by the same interest Computer to carry out and its immutable need for customized collaborate on an affordable housing for fieldwork and for architecture, project to rural India, booted by Words and concepts to discuss, to We admit that the value we are trying regarding design, 1:1 forms. A paradigm of forms that made from, for and, mainly, with the think, to learn, to teach and create to add to the urban world we can find take time to contemplate, to breathe Drishtee – an Indian social enterprise ordinary things of each particular focused on rural sustainability. passion naturally in rural areas. production and and dive. A form of process in which place, we decided to create our Hands and hand tools, raw builder We are entirely ready to quit the urban interaction, discussion and reflection own studio. Since then, we’ve been Sara Neves tools to draw, to shape, to build, to problems’ addiction, humbly remove are actions we fall for too. A long-flow developing an model housing project experiment learning, to reflect on the shortcomings to ruralise the urban, governance. trial, back and forth tested, that needs in rural India, a school libraries project I’m a Portuguese architect, master doing and to give passion and see the light of the pure rural. time to mature, to listen, talk and get to in São Tomé and housing recovery Home to be attached to, to feel the We acknowledge that by being closer Places that follow know its purpose more literally. degree by the Faculdade de projects in Portugal. Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto. duties, the responsibility, to be a to the natural resources, we can be, I was co-editor-in-chief of Dedalo citizen, to build like a citizen, to be more easily, independent of the global rural nature. Our projects are being developed in Magazine, where motivated by realistic and centralised management systems. So we follow partnership with local institutions Travel to meet our role models, to find We believe that taking rural as a valid Rural, where forms still grow in. the refusal of abstraction and of social development, valuing the generalisation of principles in the best practice cases, to be inspired, to alternative, we let the cities breath and Where processes can be sowed, come analysis of the quotidian and their boom, to think beyond, to be optimistic we contribute to the emancipation of up and dead. Where processes can places where time architectural process, we organised requirements, just as much as the talks, workshops and projects But mainly, urban transformation. takes its natural speed. Where we technical construction requisites Human resources to collaborate, co- We’ll enshrine our century’s progress can observe closer, create closer, live lasts, and we don’t promoting a direct cooperation to fulfill the demands. We see between inhabitants and professional create, co-operate, to immerse in all of mobility and communication, and closer. Where there’s still a human- construction as a potential booster of the previous steps, to understand our record that modernity reaches the to-human scale and face-to-face of different areas. fear time. inclusive systems and communities’ In 2014 I collaborated in the newspaper role it and make it happen. rural. exchange, with no intermediaries, A call to descend into the rural autonomy, so the projects’ authorship Homeland – the Official Representation We come to believe that the rural autonomous from the global plans of fieldwork, release the form and let into and implementation are also shared of Portugal on 14th International environment could restore us to sanity. supply-demand. Rural, where all we its natural popular melody. with the inhabitants. Architecture Exhibition La Biennale We made a decision to turn our will can follow the growth of forms and – Sun, 10am 6pm 2016 | Tue until 14th of August 2016, 7pm | duration | opening 9th of June 2 | 8020 Graz | Mariahilferstraße Graz follows ... exhibition at HDA Form – www.isssresearch.com | ISSSresearch&architecture – www.futurearchitectureplatform.org Platform Architecture Future | – www.hda-graz.at Thinnfeld im Palais HDA We like to believe that deep technical di Venezia – focused on Portuguese and our lives to rural environment, as learn from it, understand it. And then comes the strongest power of knowledge is the most important, that housing research and typological we understand it. architecture, to put all these forces into interdisciplinarity is the best, collective survey. Rural is the future of cities and our form. Embodying the lifelong triangle consciousness is a duty, and that local After, through Ashoka, I travelled to future as architects. Rural is the utilitas, firmitas, venustas synthesize So we REFRAMED framework is the philosopher’s stone. India, where I collaborated during one autonomy’s future and the answer to rural nature and produce 1:1 form… And to embody all this, rurality is the year with Drishtee, on an affordable sustainable futures. Rural is the future because matter matters. way! of our optimism. FORM FOLLOWSIT! housing project to rural India. n°10/10 LEGENDA DE SIGLAS SIGLAS DE LEGENDA

ALC ALÇAPÃO PM PAINEL MÓVEL MÓVEL PAINEL PM ALÇAPÃO ALC CAR CARRETEL PR PORTÃO PORTÃO PR CARRETEL CAR CL CLARABÓIA CLARABÓIA CL EXT EXTINTOR EXTINTOR EXT CX CAIXILHARIA CAIXILHARIA CX G GUARDA GUARDA G L LUMINÁRIA LUMINÁRIA L LA LAREIRA LAREIRA LA M MOBILIÁRIO MOBILIÁRIO M P PORTA INTERIOR INTERIOR PORTA P PE PORTA EXTERIOR EXTERIOR PORTA PE

LEGENDA DE MATERIAIS MATERIAIS DE LEGENDA

PEDRA GODO GODO PEDRA BETÃO ENCHIMENTO ENCHIMENTO BETÃO TIJOLO BETONILHA ARMADA ARMADA BETONILHA TIJOLO RURAL natural resourcesMASSAME MASSAME simple

Material: mainly indigenously bamboos and mud organic bricks FRAME Waste: reuse of waste to energy and fertilizer production Human: locally empowered for produce, build and manage the WORK whole circle value chain

Alçado Traseiras Alçado Traseiras CT2 CT1

Alçado Traseiras Alçado Traseiras CT1 CT2 8,750 4,625 0,125 Alçado Lateral 2,500 1,5008,750 2,500 2,250 0,500 4,625 2,750 1,250 Alçado Pateo 0,125 Alçado Lateral India Alçado Pateo needs 2,500 1,500 2,500 2,250 0,500 2,750 1,250 2,251 1,750 2,250 2,250 20 million urban houses and 2,251 1,750 2,250 2,250 45 million rural houses

Bihar is 2,500 2,500 2,625 the third most populated state 2,625

LEGENDA DE SIGLAS LEGENDA DE SIGLAS 89% lives in rural areas 1,400 ALC ALÇAPÃO ALC PM ALÇAPÃO PAINEL MÓVEL PM PAINEL MÓVEL 1,400 CAR CARRETEL PR PORTÃO CAR CARRETEL PR PORTÃO CL CLARABÓIA CL CLARABÓIA EXT EXTINTOR AUTORIZAÇÃO. EXT EXTINTOR 45% are under 20 years old CX CAIXILHARIA AUTORIZAÇÃO. G GUARDA CX CAIXILHARIA L LUMINÁRIA G GUARDA 1,250 1,500 LA LAREIRA L LUMINÁRIA SUA EXPRESS A SUA 1,500 1,250 M MOBILIÁRIO LA LAREIRA

30% lives at less than $1/day P PORTA INTERIOR EXPRESS A SUA M MOBILIÁRIO PE PORTA EXTERIOR P PORTA INTERIOR PE PORTA EXTERIOR LEGENDA DE MATERIAIS their houses 2,650 TERCEIROS SEM A 8,355 PEDRA LEGENDA DE MATERIAISGODO 2,650 TERCEIROS SEM A 8,355 BETÃO ENCHIMENTO PEDRA GODO TIJOLO BETONILHA ARMADA BETÃO ENCHIMENTO 50% are made of raw matter ISOLAMENTO TÉRMICO MASSAME TIJOLO BETONILHA ARMADA ISOLAMENTO ACÚSTICO ENROCAMENTO 2,375

2,250 CAMADA DE FORMA ISOLAMENTOTERRENO TÉRMICOVEGETAL MASSAME ISOLAMENTO ACÚSTICO ENROCAMENTO

62% haven’t toilet 2,375 REQUERENTE 2,250 CAMADA DE FORMA TERRENO VEGETAL

CL1 CL1 #Client Company

ODO OU EM PARTE, OU COMUNICADO A ODO OU EM PARTE, REQUERENTE

89% haven’t electricity CL1 CL1 #Client Company

PROJECTO OU COMUNICADO A ODO OU EM PARTE, #Project Name

#Architect Address1, #Architect City PROJECTO 0,035 0,250 0,035 0,250

ESPECIALIDADE #Project Name #Custom 1 #Architect Address1, #Architect City 0,035 0,250 0,035 0,250

1,820 1,820 FASE ESPECIALIDADE This is probably not the first time you came across an affordable housing #Custom 2 #Custom 1

TÍTULO

1,820 1,820 FASE DESENHOS GERAIS - Lista de compartimentos P0-folha, Piso 0 project for marginalised dwellers. #Custom 2 Alçado Lateral ZONA DESENHO EM

Pormenor Varanda TÍTULO CT1 CT2 PRODUÇÃODESENHOS GERAIS - Lista de compartimentos P0-folha, Piso 0 Alçado Pateo Alçado Principal Alçado Principal So, what stands out? Alçado Lateral ZONA DESENHO EM

Pormenor Varanda CT2 CT1 PRODUÇÃO Alçado Pateo Alçado Principal Alçado Principal

PE - 00 08/12/05 Emissão RURAL framework Improvement of local techniques and simple modular design for an easy REV. DATA DESCRIÇÃO Todas as medidas sujeitas a correcção em obra.

ESCALA DATA N.º PROJECTO FASE / REVISÃO N.º DESENHO 1:1, 1:50 16/05/13 PE#Pln - 00 08/12/05#CustomEmissão 3 104 ‘CO-’ and fast construction. Co-build it and give the local population the tools ATENÇÃO: ESTE DESENHO É PROPRIEDADE DOS PROJECTISTAS E NÃO PODE SER UTILIZADO, REPRODUZIDO, ALTERADO NO T ALTERADO E NÃO PODE SER UTILIZADO, REPRODUZIDO, ESTE DESENHO É PROPRIEDADE DOS PROJECTISTAS ATENÇÃO: The pressure on farmland for fast paced urban growth is leaving behind REV. DATA DESCRIÇÃO to re-shape it for a continuous updating in the face of successive needs. Todas as medidas sujeitas a correcção em obra. a trail of destruction in villages leading to lack of livelihood, housing and ESCALA DATA N.º PROJECTO FASE / REVISÃO N.º DESENHO 1:1, 1:50 16/05/13 #Pln #Custom 3 104 access to basic services. NO T ALTERADO E NÃO PODE SER UTILIZADO, REPRODUZIDO, ESTE DESENHO É PROPRIEDADE DOS PROJECTISTAS ATENÇÃO: Many government funded schemes and grants are available for rural pro- jects, yet skilled labour is meager and proper town planning is poor. Even tough aspirations of the villagers have increased, due to the challenge of ecological accessibility to material and skilled labour, housing and infrastructures Energy efficient manufacturing and minimum polluting pro- are challenging factors for the low-income rural families. duction Majority is focused on the cities’ future and the problems WATER SUPPLY - adapting tradition coming from its population growth. Rural exodus still con- Hand-pump of the local market connected by pipes to a tank tinue to grow. SEWAGE - absorbing new local solutions But, does everyone wants to live in cities? LOCAL Septic system, eco-friendly and affordable, the digested waste can be used as soil-conditioner, for agriculture or as biogas fuel. A bottom-up approach of a points of view medley - ‘I architect’ ‘we org’ “she farmer’ ‘you mason’ - considering a less common perspective more powerful. “she farmer’ ‘you mason’ - considering a less common perspective more ‘we org’ of a points view medley - ‘I architect’ A bottom-up approach In Saurath, the village of Gharaunda’s prototype, the majority of young people prefer to stay in their village if they can access to better living BIO GAS - recycling natural resources conditions. Produced with biodegradable materials such as manure, sewage, green waste and crops, which can be used for cooking.

SOLAR ENERGY - including new technologies of architecture.

ECO-BRICKS - It takes thousands of years for nature to build fertile Topsoil, but it takes minutes for brick kilns to decimate it. The ecological bricks are manufactured using a hydraulic press machine, manufactured on site using local raw soil. The holes cre- ate pockets of air, essential for thermal insulation.

BAMBOO - fast renewable resource widely locally available. Treated naturally, and ideal for seismic-resistant constructions. youth ventures DEVELOPMENT: DEVELOPMENT: Eco system mapping, launching and supporting housing ventures at the local level - brick production; bamboo harvesting and treatment; housing sales; housing assembling; construction; machinery and co-create a local self-paradigm co-create tools rental...

The 4C by Drishtee:

Its easier to access to natural resources and the fact of be- Channels: Leverage Drishtee’s village presence and franchisees to intermediate villagers access to rural housing credit, housing pack- ing marginalised, the rural areas are less suffocated by the age supply and assembling support. profit-driven economies. Capacity: Promote the “skilling” and empowering of villagers for the Empowering the local population, “skilling” them to different ventures supporting the Gharaunda housing value chain. explore of their own resources, will enable the Capital / Credit: Organise capital that may be required, particularly younger generation to keep living in rural areas by for the housing supporting ventures. connect with the inhabitants, choice and proud of its own rural identity. Community: Drishtee’s strong relationship with rural villages and its main references guarantees the support of local communities and Put the community on the forefront of their lives, the easy promotion / implementation of the project from village to FORM FOLLOWSproducing acts of resistance, autonomous from global village. businesses’, opportunities of supply-demand. A circular architecture that covers the whole cycle - from conceptualisation and production to maintenance and long-term impact - based on a local value chain and producing acts of to maintenance and long-term impact - based on a local value chain producing conceptualisation and production that covers the whole cycle - from architecture A circular sustainability. livelihood opportunities and environmental accessibility, the rural population issues of affordability, A sustainable and inclusive eco-system that addresses resistance. SUSTAINABLE Close-up DROP THE THE ‘-LONIALISM’ AND TAKE

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