The project is focused on psychosomatic spatial research, which is disseminated by performative courses to the public. A series of workshops are based on the perceptual exploration of spatial qualities, where we use performance as a tool for design thinking and empathizing with space. The intention is to bring a performative approach closer to the society to initial social transformation with regard to care and a greater emphasis on the people who use it.
Sofia’s urban riverbanks have potential to develop as public spaces, but remain inaccessible and suffer from poor upkeep. The Rivers of Sofia Festival aimed to catalyse change by transforming the rivers and changing people’s perception of them. With light architectural interventions and a cultural programme that engaged diverse social groups, the rivers turned into thriving public space. The Rivers of Sofia has since turned into a platform for collective urbanism and is leading long-term change.
Reverberation aims to redevelop so-called leftovers through a modifying metaphor that will make them habitable again. All the places have been designed considering the strategies of interaction, overlapping and propagation: la Fonte and la Bottega reverberate their history through interventions that involve the population and push them to react to these spaces. The path between the two environments creates ideal bounces that are a metaphor for the propagation between the architectural leftovers.
Bio_Ark is a concept of architecture in the center of a permaculture designed to support cooperation with the surrounding garden. "Bio_Ark" is an experimental design that tests the that tests the possibilities of simultaneous remote work, living in rural areas and producing food for one's own needs. What is the key issue in times of a pandemic. It is a series of houses whose technological concept assumes the use of mostly "raw materials" to build very energy efficient house.
The Sensuous Project is part of the Ph.D. research of Davide Antonio Gambera, taking place in UNIDCOM/IADE Research Center of Design and Communication of IADE, European University of Lisbon. The project is financed with the grant SFRH/BD/129136/2017 given to Davide Antonio Gambera, by the FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Science Foundation).
Hadrian's Aqueduct remains an invisible, huge in size and monumental value, underground aqueduct that still transfers water from Mount Parnitha to the center of Athens. Very few people are aware of its existence and nobody uses its water! At the same time, people are getting alienated from culture, nature and participatory structures. We want to preserve and showcase Hadrian's Aqueduct, use its water to irrigate community gardens and culturally and environnmentally engage people.
The future will be built of...wood and earth! Surprisingly, such humble materials already empower a new paradigm, epitomized by the 85.4m Mjøstårnet and 180m Atlassian HQ. Crucially, timber can achieve timely feats inconceivable with concrete or steel: notably, carbon sequestration and ecosystem health. Yet there remain functions wood can’t perform, like thermal storage. Hence the integration of another ubiquitous natural material - earth - contemporised via chemical engineering and 3D printing.
We make facade-panels from "waste-wood" in a collaboration with recycling stations and municipalities. At the same time we create CSR-jobs by providing a safe productionline that can be maintained by citizens outside the jobmarket.
By upcyling and refining waste-wood we are giving new life to waste-wood.
In Denmark 283.000 tonnes of wood - that we are able to recycle - are being thrown out every year. That amount equals 283.000 tonnes CO2 that we can save and storage.
The project for the construction of this architecture will embody nuances of cultural and historical nature and will aim to show society that the dissemination and preservation of cultural values and traditions will contribute to the spiritual development and unification of society, not only in small settlements, and in every point of the globe where Bulgarians live. It is important to take the initial and decisive steps to succeed in the future.
gaming>in proposes a human-centered approach to the inclusion of people with Intellectual Disability, by involving them in the game creation process, through active interaction, feedback, and playtesting. This approach aims to provide a recreational and aesthetic experience for pwID, independent of any clinical purposes, as a pathway for new practices that consider their accessibility needs, interests, cultural representations, and expressions, building a shared sense of ownership on gaming.
