Envisioning the Architecture(s) of the Urban Commons 19-20

This studio aims at enabling urban commons through architecture. The student will explore architecture’s capacity for triggering social transformation based on solidarity, shared ownership, sustainable production and consumption and fair distribution, as well as autonomy, self-determination, and self- organization. To boost this capacity, the contemporary discussions on urban commons provides a wide and generous experimental ground for space-making. In a post-capitalist context, the students will rethink architectural design as a bottom-up solidarity spatial practice which critiques neoliberalism and imagine possibilities for alternative modes of shared living based on anti-capitalist values.