“Commons” Sense [MEDS_Reaction S.5]
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013
Commons sense: the session redefines common sense as a sense of community, asking how urban life can rebuild local relations in increasingly global cities.
Year: 2013
UR_LIS Mind the Gap
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013
Proposals for the agenda: Include new agents in the process of decision making (architects as a bridge between citizens and local power). There is a certain urgency in building mechanisms of communication amongst the different profiles of inhabitants of the public space. Strategies have to be taught in order to generate proximity between the decision-makers […]
[MEDS_Reaction] Declaration of Urban Rights
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013
MEDS_Reaction Declaration of Urban Rights: the final session turns the workshop’s debates into a collective list of rights to preserve, introduce and abolish in urban life.
Transparency and Open Data / Open Source City [MEDS_Reaction S.8]
2013
Open source city: the session asks what happens when urban data, designs and decisions become accessible, and why information still needs context, interpretation and local knowledge.
Half-Done City [MEDS_Reaction S.7]
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013
Half-done city: the session asks whether a city can ever be finished, and who gets to decide how unfinished spaces, empty buildings and inherited forms are adapted.
Handmade Urbanism [MEDS_Reaction S.6]
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013
Handmade urbanism: the session asks whether people should build their own city, and what architects must do when self-made urban life needs safety, services and recognition.
#UR_LIS 2013 [MEDS_Reaction]
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013
MEDS Reaction LX 2013 used the Urban Parliament as a temporary structure for collective debate, reflection and public learning. During the workshop, participants gathered around a series of thematic sessions to discuss urban space, public life, design practice, community agency and the possible formulation of urban rights. The MEDS Reaction sessions were convened around explicit […]
Building Doors in the Countryside [MEDS_Reaction S.3]
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013
Building doors: the session asks whether design should create objects, open possibilities, or follow the rules that communities make for themselves.
Mind the Gap [MEDS_Reaction S.4]
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013
Mind the gap: the session questions who architects should listen to, what questions they should ask, and whether design can serve people without reducing them to clients.
#UR_Villena
Villena / Spain / 2013
Graça’s Urban Parliament
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013
Author: anna buono Graça’s Urban Parliament Construction was a workshop designed with the intention of build up a better understanding of the urban space on the neighborhood of Graça by a hand, and to set an infrastructure that could assist on MEDS Reaction LX 2013 workshop, which was performed at this Lisboan district from Aug 3rd and […]
Inhabiting controversy, Hybrid city and Hybrid communities [MEDS_Reaction S.1]
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013
Inhabiting controversy: the session asks how architects, communities and public authorities can negotiate urban conflict without pretending that one solution can serve everyone.
Equipped square [MEDS_Reaction S.2]
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013
Equipped square: the session moves from asking what objects a square needs to asking who has the right to intervene, occupy and care for public space.
#UR_LIS Lisbon Triennale, 2013
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013