Parlamento portátil – Kit
2025
The Universal Declaration of Urban Rights
We are all constructing the city by thought, act or omission.
How can architecture and curatorship use the relationship between reality and fiction to create discursive spaces?
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Two years after the Triennial, *El Parlamento* continues to serve as a curatorial reference point for exploring architecture, fiction and participation.
Urban Rights at FCForum Lab 2014
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The Declaration circulates through free culture, digital innovation and open knowledge networks Zuloark takes part in FCForum Lab 2014, a space connected to free culture, open technologies, civic innovation and new forms of collaborative production presenting the Universal Declaration of Urban Rights alongside UrbanLeaks and Inteligencias Colectivas, developed in connection with the Zoohaus Association. The […]
Utopias, urban play and possible futures
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the Parliament can be read as a practicable utopia: a civic fiction that does not escape the real city, but creates a situation where other forms of debate, listening and decision-making can be tested
#UR_MAN Manchester [City Fictions]
Manchester / United Kingdom / 2014
#UR_BRU Les Marolles, Bruxelles
Bruxelles / Belgique / 2014
Les Marolles Realizado en colaboración con Fabric-Recyclart . Se construye un parlamento urbano en un proceso de talleres abiertos a los habitantes del barrio. Con esta actuación se pretende lograr la rehabilitación urbana de la Dalle de Brigittinnes, dotando de infraestructura a este lugar para que comience a ser utilizado y pueda dar cabida a […]
#UR_MAD 2011 BIAU Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial
Madrid / Spain / 2011
Adolfo Estalella publishes “The Declaration as an open architecture of the archive”
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Adolfo Estalella publishes “Opening the Ethnographic Archive” in Anales del Museo Nacional de Antropología
FutureEverything as a laboratory for urban futures
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The Skinny points to the need for an open source and collaborative society, where ideas, methods and tools are shared so that people can take part in managing their digital, social, political and urban futures.
UR_ZAZ: a stand for gathering at the former Luis Buñuel school
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Students, neighbours and Zuloark build a shared infrastructure at Urban Outcast Festival For three days, the courtyard of the former I.E.S. Luis Buñuel, in Zaragoza’s San Pablo neighbourhood, has become an open workshop for architecture, learning and collective construction. As part of the Urban Outcast Festival, first- and second-year architecture students from the University of […]
Urban Outcast Festival: students and neighbours build the city in Zaragoza
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The University of Zaragoza announces an urban design workshop with Zuloark The University of Zaragoza announces the participation of students from the Degree in Architecture Studies in an urban design workshop as part of the Urban Outcast Festival, taking place on 3, 4 and 5 April in the courtyard of the former I.E.S. Luis Buñuel, […]
UR_ZAZ Zaragoza Urban.Outcast.Festival, 2014
Zaragoza / Spain / 2014
Parliament of Urban Rights en FutureEverything 2014
Events
WIRED presents Zuloark’s Parliament of Urban Rights as the town hall of City Fictions: a temporary debating space, built in wood and open to anyone in Manchester who wants to use it for civic purposes, neighbourhood meetings, gatherings with friends or assemblies.
UR_MAD We Traders
Madrid / Spain / 2014
Urban Rights in Cities: Urban Play FutureEverything Conference
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The Cities: Urban Play conference brings together Zuloark, Holly Gramazio, Paul Graham Raven and Liam Young to think about the city through play, fiction, speculation and new forms of urban imagination.
[MEDS_Reaction] Declaration of Urban Rights
Lisboa / Portugal / 2013
#UR_LIS 2013 [MEDS_Reaction]
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
#UR_LIS 2013 [MEDS_Reaction]
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
#UR_LIS 2013 [MEDS_Reaction]
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
#UR_LIS 2013 [MEDS_Reaction]
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
#UR_LIS 2013 [MEDS_Reaction]
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.
Nina Azzarello highlights Zuloark’s Urban Parliament at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale
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Journalist Nina Azzarello publishes a piece in Designboom on the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, titled Close, Closer, placing Zuloark’s Urban Parliament within a broader debate on the social role of architecture. In her review of The Real and Other Fictions, curated by Mariana Pestana, Azzarello describes a triennale that does not simply display architecture, but […]
#UR_Villena
Villena / Spain / 2013