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, in the San Pablo neighbourhood.
The workshop proposes taking architecture out of the classroom and placing it in a real space of collaboration with the neighbourhood. Over three days, students and local residents work together to design and build a shared intervention aimed at recovering the courtyard of the former school and activating new social, cultural and urban uses.
The experience includes the participation of Zuloark, who accompany the collective design and construction process. Rather than solving a pre-defined object, the workshop works as a shared learning situation: thinking with the materials available, listening to the needs of the context and building an infrastructure that will be useful for those who will inhabit it.
From the perspective of Urban Rights, the Zaragoza workshop expands the trajectory of the Declaration to another scale: it is not only about debating urban rights in a temporary parliament, but about building small infrastructures where those rights can be rehearsed. The right to participate, to learn by doing, to recover disused spaces and to collectively decide on common space is materialised here through wood, tools, conversation and shared use.
Festival: Urban Outcast Festival
Venue: former I.E.S. Luis Buñuel, San Pablo neighbourhood, Zaragoza
Workshop dates: 3-5 April 2014
Participants: architecture students from the University of Zaragoza, local residents and Zuloark