The current financial crisis has brought the development of the Rotterdam Central District (RCD) to a standstill. What used to be the lively heart of the city has become a run-down office boulevard with a tremendous vacancy rate and an inhospitable ground level dominated by large scale infrastructure. There are ambitious plans for the RCD...

R-LAB R-lab is a laboratory of architecture that pretends to provide another point of view in the educative models of the architecture schools, invigorating the students to take part in the society which involves them. The intentions of this laboratory are mainly educational with the goal of spreading the social need of the architect. The...

Think commons is an ambient intelligence network, meaning a network capable of creating situations of learning based upon a collective intelligence and usually thank to the process of lateral exchange. For the moment this project develops in two ways: weekly online streaming sessions and periodic meetings. Every Wednesday at 7.30 PM there is a new...

Adhocracy. Make it your self (Background) People have been disenfranchised from the sense of responsibility towards the public space. Citizens think that the government (and other institutions) should take action when it comes to shape the city. This is a commodity, for which citizens pay (with their taxes). However it is more and more clear...

[im]possible living is a crowd-sourced a website dedicated to the re-use of abandoned buildings all over the world. It provides tools and services for people who try to raise, discuss and, potentially, solve the problem represented by the underuse of real estate. Since the beginning of the project in January 2011, the founders’ aim was...

Dialogues is a research project aligned with the undergraduate discipline “Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Slums”, as part of the Architecture and Urbanism course at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). The project uses a a methodology of action, coming from the mediation of information between a university and families involved in the auto-construction of homes...

KIUI Kit di Interazione Urbana Istantanea is a research and action project on urban public space promoted by Orizzontale from fall 2011 to spring 2012. KIUI has been articulated in four moments, three temporary micro-events and a final costruction workshop whose outcome has been the realization of a semi permanent structure. During the first three...

On the 14th of May 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II, Rotterdam was almost razed to the ground. The reconstruction period started intensively and has never stopped, making Rotterdam a symbol of progression amongst European cities. At the end of the first decade of 2000 the World economical crisis...

At the beginning it was a project in the drawer of ARTÉRIA studio. As a script turns into a film, it found a neighborhood and a local association that had in hand a public property building in ruins. ARTÉRIA invited association Renovar a Mouraria to join forces and bring about effective and sustainable action for...

We want to talk and discuss about our nocturnal urban environment, about the way we create and perceive the night image of our cities, about the lighting of our streets. Technological advances in this field do not seem to be affecting the methodology for this purpose, to what is meant by urban lighting “quality”, efficient,...

PEC is a shared workspace and citizen empowerment in which have flocked professionals in various fields ( architecture, archeology, communication, graphic expression and publishing) for its self-design, self-build and self-management. At the beguinnng of 2012 the Market of San Fernando was in decline, with half of empty stalls. Little more than a year after is...

Topias is the theme of the present edition of eme3 and Limes is the title of our project. Eugenio Trías is the thinker from whom we have taken the notion of ‘limes’. He uses this word to emphasise his new approach to the concept of a subject, which can be comprehended as límite. In its...