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“Avles Simperilipsis” is a pedagogical program with architectural interventions aiming to raise the school community’s awareness of equality and inclusion, focusing on gender, through the study of the schoolyard. A schoolyard is a place, where exclusion phenomena based on gender stereotypes and hierarchical structures are often observed. Therefore, the goal is to approach equality by co-creating sustainable and beautiful yards that respond to a greater diversity of children’s needs and desires.

The aim is to establish an Envi_Art Lab – the laboratory which is supposed to provide a space for SciArt and tech. research, interdisciplinary cooperation to offer alternative forms of environmental education, training and wider public implementation. The goal is to create an interdisciplinary space of environmental and artistic knowledge and collaborative practices by using DIY AI, and mix media tools to create aesthetical emotional manifestation of actual environmental problems.

2000m² of soil! That is what each one of us on would have at disposal, if we would distribute the available arable Land evenly on the worlds' population. The Worldfield in Rothenklempenow takes this figure as starting point for a living open-air exhibition that presents the interlinks between our food, agriculture and the soil. The recently inaugurated "Worldfield House" - a multi functional construction made of straw balls, wood and clay - will extend the educational scope of our project.

The project uses the strategies of cultural heritage cataloguing as a tool to bring young students closer to their social and productive territory to acquire and strengthen that territorial identity necessary to consolidate their belonging to a city, a nation, the European Community. The formula of global education, adopted in the project, has made it possible to achieve the objectives of: Education in Solidarity, Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Peace, Interculture and Global Citizenship.

The project, which is strongly focused on educating the younger generation about legality and the rediscovery of local identity values, consists of a series of 8 murals in AR, dedicated to the memory of Carabinieri General Gennaro Niglio, a local hero who lost his life as a result of his fight against the Mafia. Conceived and realized by students of the Federico II University of Naples, the installation is based on the designed interaction of street art and augmented reality.

Sense Heritage: 9 Lives of Curator is about those yet to come to the past by believing in the future and those yet to come to the future by believing in the past. And the bridges they can make together. It is about not leaving anyone behind but looking beyond the horizon. It`s about sharing the beliefs of belonging to something larger than life yet undeniably born from life itself. It is about enabling the minds and hearts to speak and act together. It`s just about us.

The Vineyard Project cultivates the vineyard as a therapeutic landscape for youth experiencing mental ill-health, involved in a one-to-one interaction with vine-growers and peer agronomy students in vine care activities. With the involvement of arts, humanities and enological high schools, the project aims to develop an innovative program for youth, based on peer-training, aimed at competitive employment (an essential part of citizenship) and rooted in locally constructed therapeutic landscapes.

KOGAA Lab is an academia platform run by KOGAA architecture studio. The platform applies executive knowledge related with QOL (quality of life in the city) topics as adaptive re-use, adaptation to climatic change or positive impact on communities and localities.
Lab's pilot project was a collaboration with the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. During summer semester we led student atelier whose main topic was the reactivation of an industrial building located in Liberec.

10km from Barcelona the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia's Valldaura Labs comprises 140ha of forest where global student cohorts learn-by-living in a renovated farmhouse hosting digital fabrication tools alongside a carpentry, gardens and domestic/educational spaces. Practising sustainable forest management to harvest their own 0km lumber and produce cross-laminated timber with an on-site mill and press, students complete one circular self-sufficient prototype building each year.

Ideas laboratory and meeting place.
A participatory and inclusive meeting space for local communities, with tools to co-create an eco-social transition, responding to local needs. A space for dissemination, training and advice on the sustainable use of natural resources, with participatory decision-making.
as Einstein said
"The mind is like a parachute, it only works if you open it"
Local communities can join forces and find solutions that improve life with participatory actions.