Mil Pássaros (1000 Birds) is an installation based on a shared process. The “countless hands” of children and adults gave rise to birds, which were later brought together in a visual and sound “murmuration”, tuning in to the desire for a better world. These paper birds, or orizurus, were made using the art of origami, and in Japanese culture they are a symbol of peace and happiness. It is also said that after making a thousand orizurus, wishes come true.
MOOT is the first global, digital and bilingue dance and movement training platform. Our mission is to support, educate and unify the dance and movement community from any place and time. Our vision is to democratize access to dance and become an indispensable place in the routine of dancers and practitioners of movement, generating a continuous impact on their professional life, health and well-being and of their surrounding communities.
In the cooperative urban district of Margaretenau, Regensburg, south Germany, 24 apartments were modernized with innovative technology.
As a redensification measure, six additional apartments were created in the attic of the building with the goal to increase the economic efficiency by aiming for constantly low gross warm rent.
Besides the use of new technology, such as AI-based management and control, glass microsphere plaster and a hybrid heating system, participation was a main topic.
VILLA MÜLLER as a cultural project combines an old building structure with the local cultural heritage, artistic dynamics and everyday life in the region. As part of a participatory process a cultural program with interdisciplinary cooperations will be curated and supervised, which will offer a stage to local art and culture as well as handicrafts. In addition we serve as a networking site and neighborhood meeting place without any consumtion stress and we show a common way into the future.
Waste is a design flaw: our cities are large, man made material deposits. We have never had more metal, plastic, oil-based composite materials and minerals around us than now. Yet we exploit natural resources to obtain new building materials. The installation emphasizes reuse through using construction materials as service and not as products. Thus the material is used uncut and joined by rope to allow full disassembly and further reselling by the producer.
The open space behind the st. George church seems to be self-evident these days, but it was historically never a city square. With the renovation and the revitalisation of the area, the new market square is nowadays a bustling hotspot of the medieval town of Ptuj.
Citizen-led site development in Gottsunda, Sweden, with a focus on testing and developing new methods for involving residents and local actors in the development of existing and future spaces.
For a year, ten sites and ten different issues were explored together with ten different target groups. The tests led to physical interventions and to lessons learned about Gottsunda today and in the future.
TWIN project has the ambition to define a replicable territorial model for the benefit of marginal and fragile territories crossed by slow lines, combining itinerant tourism along cycling and walking paths, social inclusion and building recovery. It is an initiative of the research group TWIN of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of Politecnico di Milano and it is a winning project of the Call Polisocial Award 2019. A first experimentation has already been tested: the TWIN Hut n.1.
The University of Siegen moves from its ivory tower to the city center and brings some heterogenous vitalization.
The city’s new center of gravity is a department store building, that from now on is also a multifunctional lecture center. This saves resources, revives the city center and fosters diversity.
A small major city that has been shaped by its industry is reinventing itself. That is only possible because the municipality and university cooperate tightly in order to shape a ne
The permanent exhibition of the Poklon Visitor Centre, located in the heart of the Učka Nature Park in Croatia, overwhelms and enchants visitors. Interpretation of a vast locality rich with natural and cultural values educates and raises awareness for sustainability. It introduces the deep heritage tale, celebrating the unshakable link between a man and a mountain while connecting the visitor to the inspiring lessons from the past directly offered by the local community.
