Workshop: Abandon Architectures!

The workshop took place at the library of the Italian Institute of Culture in London. During the whole week we worked as a Think-Tank. Firstly, examining what the idea of CITY meant to all of us and then trying to understand the ‘architectures’ that rule our lives on them. On the first stage of the [...]

The conversation has continued, we are proposing ideas that are questioning public design in relationship with education, is it better to put waste bins or to educate citizens not to throw rubish on the streets..? (Jonathan Atenborough) or would technology allow us to introduce democracy into issues that are commonly out of our reach like [...]

En los diferente conceptos destacan como temas interesantes: – Digitalizar la ciudad – Democracía – Mapas alternativas – Internet versus Fab LAB

Todays been a day of breakthroughs… amazing ideas about incorporating ¨fab labs¨ into our high street structures. Can we promote the creation of design works that can see their route from manufacturing to retailing withnin the same quarters? (Mike Patrick) or New applications to use in our phones that can offer us alternative routes to [...]

The workshop is evolving as an interesting debate into what are the potentials of the city, what are its downfalls and what it could become in our digital age. Tere is a very interesting proposal that tries to find what its the esence of the city, now that many of the functions of the city [...]