Mouraria Composta is a community composting project that uses an electro-mechanical technique to transform organic waste into compost for use in the community's green spaces and for donation to participants. In a participatory model, it seeks to activate the local community, with more than 50 nationalities, using an environmentally creative and sustainable response to mobilize the inclusion of more vulnerable inhabitants, namely migrants and refugees.
This project is a 12,8m-long footbridge made of structural wicker. It was designed for the first edition of Les Utopies Constructives that will stand in 2023 in the city of Richelieu (FRANCE).
Faro Cratere: a resilience strategy vs the earthquake that almost destroyed 140 towns in central Italy in 2016, and still threatens the very existence of the local communities: a bottom-up participatory process that involves them and helps to safeguard their identity, memory, and future. Building an archive of the memory of life and work in the historic towns. Enhancing the "human capital" of the dispersed community that left the old towns, and bridging it to the one will enter them when rebuild
An elastic gridshell is an efficient constructive typology for crossing large spans with little material. A flat elastic grid is built before buckling the structure into shape, in active and post-formed bending.
Kagome is made 100% of wood : its laths are interlaced to form a japanese traditionnal pattern, called Kagome, which makes the structure naturally braced. This pavillion is standing at the Parc de la Butte du Chapeau Rouge, a public square in the working-class area of Paris.
“Green Gwarna” is a multidisciplinary revitalisation-social-memory project aiming at restoring memory, dignity and quality space of a forgotten and physically degenerated Jewish-German cemetery located in the city center in the middle of a housing quarter in a Polish city of Wrocław. The project proposes an original green commemoration and inclusive dialog-oriented approach to working with difficult heritage and local communities by incorporating educational, civic and environmental elements.
Citizens of Belgrade, for more than a decade, have been trying to formalize their initiative for urban community gardens. However, this kind of urban social practice, implemented in many European cities, in Serbia is not an easy government task due to many post-socialist transition constraints. Within this initiative, the Academy’s effort to enable communication and connect decision-makers with citizens was fruitful and opened the door for Belgrade's urban community gardens enactment.
Lexicon of Sustainability lists and explains 150 of the most relevant terms related to sustainable development, belonging to one or more topics: Built environment, Energy, Health & environmental protection, Resource management, Social responsibility, Sustainability basics, indicators & metrics, Sustainable business practices. It is a must-read for working professionals of different levels in different fields, who didn't have any formal training in sustainability, but recognize its importance.
Equally important is all at one: a game, a drama workshop, a simulation, a creative and educational program for young people!
The Equally Important program deals with socioeconomic (in)equalities, gender (in)equality, and inequalities in health and education. These topics are all connected on the board/ a map, which has four paths we use to move to the island / around the island / away from the island of Idyllicus... We discover the secrets of this island together.
The annual architecture summer school is an extracurricular activity for high school student in Eastern Transylvania, where they can learn to think and work collectively using simple methods and materials. Projects created by students are responding to actual needs of local communities or offer an improvement of the built environment. The summer schools are organised in collaboration with local municipalities and aims to strengthen local bonds and a sense of belonging and collective identity.
“Por um Galho - Social and Artistic Intervention for Nature” is an interactive environmental art project that seeks to establish mutual relationships between art, nature and community. A multidisciplinary project of visual and performing arts, which aims to include and value seniors through their involvement in the co-creation, realization and exhibition of five site-specific, ephemeral and biodegradable installations, built with 100% natural materials, especially invasive plants.
