One of the most important challenges over the 13 years of history of Ecosistema Urbano has been to communicate what we do in a readable and attractive way. However, in everyday work, the priority has always been the urgent, immediate projects, so we kept postponing the time for making a structured presentation of our professional activity online.
This “EU portfolio” task has been present in all of our task management meetings, always at the end of the “to do list”. But that’s over!
The Ecosistema Urbano Portfolio: What we do
We have finally put ourselves to the task with dedication and we are pleased to present our portfolio: a selection of our works and proposals, showing pictures, diagrams, plans, related links to publications, etc … A selection that, while not yet complete, is organized by categories, tags and years, making navigation more effective.
We carried an internal research on portfolio sites we liked, and as a result we have gone for a responsive layout, an adaptable grid structure showing all the projects at once, plus a sidebar menu, where you can find the main information about our firm as well as 3 different navigation systems:
- A general classification of projects by types
- A more specific classification according to themes
- A yearly index
We have chosen this simple web structure with the aim of keeping it updated (which, so far, we are managing to do!), and of course the website is a “work in progress” itself. This way, we didn’t have to wait til all the contents were uploaded to make it public. We have uploaded so far 20 of our most relevant works, but we plan to add more in the months to come, so that you can get an overall impression of “what we do”.
We invite you to check some of the presentation sections on the sidebar menu, that have been recently updated:
- About us is a complete presentation of Ecosistema Urbano, who we are and what we do.
- On Articles + Papers you can read some of our written contributions to international architecture magazines and other publications.
- Under the label Publications you can see where our projects have been published so far and have access to previews of some of these publications.
We find the typical architect’s portfolio websites, usually made in Flash (a legacy from the ’90s, but still very common), quite frustrating. They don’t allow you to link to a specific project, and forget about downloading an image! With such limitations the message of those websites is a clear “keep your hands off my stuff”… and we do want you to get your hands on our staff!
So we have made sure you will be able to easily link to any project, year, tag or category (or even a specific image), to view the images in a good resolution, and to download them.
Reconnecting our online presence
When designing the poftfolio page we noticed something else: On top of all our websites (about, portfolio, blog, video channel), we were missing a way to link and navigate between them.
Now we have tried to address this issue by creating a common header syle for all the sites, which includes a menu with links and a changing color that matches the ones displayed in our main page: ecosistemaurbano.com.
We hope you enjoy it! And please, feel free to make any comments on it, we will appreciate your feedback. Thank you!
En un un post anterior os presentábamos el trabajo hecho para lanzar nuestro nuevo porfolio, que a pocas semanas de estar online ya nos está resultando muy útil. Dado que lo lanzamos como una versión en proceso, durante este tiempo hemos estado introduciendo mejoras y contenidos de forma casi continua. Os comentamos algunas de las más significativas:
Descripción de temas y áreas de trabajo
Ahora cada etiqueta y categoría no sólo dependen de que el término sea descriptivo, sino que al hacer clic sobre una de ellas, sobre la selección correspondiente de proyectos se muestra una descripción que añade algo más de contexto. Esto es algo que también podría beneficiar a las categorías del blog, así que posiblemente lo añadamos aquí también en un futuro.
Completar la páginas de presentación
Ahora la página de presentación incluye una descripción más elaborada, fotos del equipo y el estudio, una pequeña declaración sobre nuestra forma de abordar el trabajo y una lista de reconocimientos como podría figurar en cualquier CV completo. La página de contacto tiene ahora un mapa con la ubicación y una foto de la fachada tal y como es hoy día (en el StreetView aún se ve cubierta de andamios).
Página de artículos
La página de artículos y papers, que estaba en blanco, ya tiene enlaces a las versiones digitales de varios documentos, cuando están disponibles, o a la página de la publicación correspondiente.
Página de conferencias y exposiciones + enseñanza y talleres
Han sido quizás las más trabajosas de completar, ya que han sido muchas las actividades en las que hemos participado en estos años y ponerlas todas ha requerido volver atrás en el tiempo, revisar listas anteriores, actualizarlas, ir rellenando huecos y buscando enlaces.
Unificación de encabezados
Además, a un nivel por encima de cada web en particular, estamos buscando la manera de que las distintas partes de nuestra identidad digital se relacionen claramente entre sí para que no queden dispersas o inaccesibles.
Ahora los encabezados tienen un menú en común que permite saltar de una página a otra, y que se corresponde con la estructura mostrada en nuestra página de entrada: ecosistemaurbano.com.
Esto ha sido más difícil de resolver en el porfolio, que tiene una estructura adaptable (responsive) bastante diferente a la del blog. Lo hemos solucionado, de momento, dejando el logo fijo como parte de la barra lateral y dejando que el menú-encabezado suba como en el resto de las páginas. ¿Funciona?
Más proyectos
Por último, pero no menos importante, hemos añadido una nueva tanda de proyectos para seguir completando el porfolio. Algunos construidos, otros en proyecto, y la mayoría anteriores en el tiempo a los que teníamos ya publicados. Aún quedan otros tantos por publicar, pero de momento ya puede uno hacerse una idea de nuestra actividad:
Revisando la ubicación del proyecto Plaza Ecópolis en Rivas-Vaciamadrid para incluirla en la ficha del proyecto en nuestro portfolio, hemos descubierto que en Bing Maps ya aparece el proyecto finalizado. Ahí va una captura:
Ortofoto de Plaza Ecópolis en Bing Maps – Clic para ver el mapa
Como curiosidad, en la vista aérea de Bing Maps, en cambio, aparece aún en obras:
Vista aérea de Plaza Ecópolis en Bing Maps – Clic para ver mapa
Y en Google Maps (y StreetView) van mucho más atrasados: se ve todavía como un solar completamente vacío.
Ortofoto de Plaza Ecópolis en Google Maps – Clic para ver mapa
En OpenStreetMaps por defecto no hay ortofoto, y el edificio no está mapeado… pero eso sí que podríamos cambiarlo nosotros mismos.
COAM Y CANAL+ preestrenan el filme en España. El equipo danés de Gehl Architects impartirá una conferencia y, tras la proyección, se celebrará un debate sobre el futuro del espacio público en las grandes metrópolis, en el que participará Belinda Tato, de Ecosistema Urbano.
Con este impresionante trailer se presenta “The human scale” (La escala humana), un documental del danés Andreas Mol Dalsgaard que retrata el conflicto que supone en las grandes metrópolis el crecimiento exponencial de la población, que de ser en la actualidad un 50% pasará a ocupar un 80% en el 2050.
Programa
17.30. Conferencia de Lin Skaufel, socia del estudio Gehl Architects.
18.45. Pausa.
19.00. The Human Scale. Presentación institucional, a cargo de José Antonio Granero, Decano del COAM, Iñigo Trojaola, editor jefe de documentales de Canal+, Sarah Bogantes, agregada cultural de la Embajada de Dinamarca en España, y Carlos Díaz del Río, socio director de Tornasol Producciones.
19.20. The Human Scale. Proyección de la película (70 min.)
20.40. Mesa redonda, con la participación de Lin Skaufel (Gehl Architects), Belinda Tato (Ecosistema Urbano), y Fernando Porras-Ysla (m-río). Modera: Inmaculada E. Maluenda, vocal de Junta de Gobierno COAM.
21.30. Cierre, a cargo del decano del COAM.
El arquitecto danés Jan Gehl, desde una aproximación sociológica al urbanismo, reconocida internacionalmente a través de sus publicaciones y conferencias, defiende como uno de los mecanismos prioritarios la necesidad de ganar espacio público. Junto a su experiencia, se ofrecen episodios pioneros en ciudades como Nueva York, Pekín o Tokio, junto con otros testimonios que tratan de ofrecer una reflexión sobre las soluciones que deben acometerse en las grandes ciudades relacionadas con la escasez de petróleo, el cambio climático, el aislamiento social y los problemas de salud derivados de la vida urbana en las grandes metrópolis.
Más información:
Lugar: LaSede del COAM, Hortaleza, 63.
Fecha: 12 de abril de 2013, 17:30h.
Organizan: COAM, Canal+ Xtra, Tornasol Producciones y Embajada de Dinamarca en España.
Speaker: Jose Luis Vallejo, Ecosistema Urbano | Introduction by Eugenio Pandolfini
Date/time: Tuesday April 9, 2013 at 7:00pm
Place: Palazzo dei Cerchi | Lecture Hall | Vicolo dei Cerchi 1 | Florence | Italy
Organizer: Kent State University | Florence Program College of Architecture and Environmental Design
Lectures are free and open to the public (seats are limited)
Explosion 1965-6 Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997- Museum of Modern Art, New York 1976
[ES] Ecosistema Urbano lleva varios años trabajando principalmente para instituciones y administraciones en el extranjero (Noruega, Italia, Dinamarca, Francia…), de manera independiente o en colaboración con otras oficinas. A medida que conocemos más otros países y trabajamos con otros equipos, nos damos cuenta de que todavía nos quedan por explorar muchas posibilidades profesionales, lo que requiere una dedicación intensa en tareas de prospección, establecimiento de contactos y comunicación.
Por este motivo, buscamos una persona de acción, creativa y con iniciativa que se quiera incorporar a nuestro equipo (a tiempo completo) y contribuir a la creación y desarrollo de nuevas oportunidades.
Por la naturaleza del trabajo es imprescindible tener habilidades de comunicación y un dominio del inglés hablado y escrito a nivel profesional. También es valorable tener cierta experiencia internacional, habiendo estudiado o trabajado fuera de España.
Algunas características del perfil que estamos buscando:
Arquitecto/a o profesional próximo al mundo de la arquitectura / urbanismo / paisajismo con formación en españa o en el extranjero
Inglés/español: Imprescindible gran dominio hablado y escrito
Habilidades de comunicación, facilidad y afición por la escritura en distintos idiomas
Diseño gráfico y familiaridad con herramientas digitales en general
Soltura en rastreo de webs y bases de datos online
Persona activa y creativa
Preferible experiencia internacional previa (académica o profesional)
Si estáis interesados enviadnos (antes del 20 de marzo) un breve mensaje de interés (el mismo texto del correo) y muestras de vuestro trabajo+experiencia mediante enlaces (Dropbox, Scribd, Wetransfer, web…). Por favor, evitad los archivos adjuntos o carpetas compartidas, sólo un link de descarga al final del mensaje.
[EN] Over the last few years, Ecosistema Urbano has been mainly working for foreign public and private institutions (in Norway, Italy, Denmark, France, …), either independently or in collaboration with other offices. The more we get to know other countries and work with different teams, the more we realize that we still have many professional possibilities to explore. This requires an intense dedication to prospecting, networking and communication tasks.
For this reason, we are currently searching for an active, creative and resourceful person who wants to join our team (full time), contributing to the creation and development of new opportunities.
Because of the nature of the work, good communication skills and mastery of written and spoken English at a professional level are a must. It is also valuable to have some international experience, having studied or worked outside Spain.
Some hints on the profile we are looking for:
Architect or professional familiar with the world of architecture / urban design / landscape, educated in Spain or abroad
English / Spanish: spoken and written (professional level)
Communication and writing skills, as well as enjoying writing in different languages
Graphic design skills and familiarity with digital tools in general
Familiar with web and online database research
Active and creative person
Highly appreciated international experience (academic or professional)
If you are interested please send (before March 20th) a brief text expressing your interest (the very same text of the email) and samples of your work + experience through links (Dropbox, Scribd, Wetransfer, web…). Please, avoid attachments or shared folders, just a link included at the end of the email will be perfect!
Uno de los retos más importantes a lo largo de los 13 años que llevamos trabajando como Ecosistema Urbano es comunicar lo que hacemos de una manera legible y atractiva. Sin embargo, en el trabajo del día a día lo prioritario ha sido siempre lo urgente, lo inmediato, quedando siempre pospuesto el momento de hacer una presentación estructurada de nuestra actividad profesional.
Este “EU about”, como venimos llamándolo desde hace mucho, se había convertido en una tarea presente en todas las reuniones internas de trabajo, que finalmente quedaba siempre al final de la lista. Pero eso se acabó.
El “EU ABOUT”
Esta vez –por fin– nos hemos puesto a la tarea con intensidad y tenemos el placer de presentaros nuestro porfolio, una agrupación de nuestros proyectos e iniciativas con documentos gráficos y enlaces a publicaciones, etc… Una selección que, aunque aún no está completa, ordena el trabajo por categorías, etiquetas y años, permitiendo una navegación más eficaz.
La página está compuesta por una retícula de proyectos que se adapta al ancho de cada pantalla, y una barra lateral fija que contiene los elementos de navegación. En estabarra lateral, debajo del logo y del buscador –que funciona bastante bien y es la mejor manera de encontrar rápidamente cualquier proyecto–, encontramos de arriba a abajo:
- Una serie de enlaces a páginas con diferentes contenidos de presentación y CV de Ecosistema Urbano.
- Una clasificación básica según el tipo de proyecto, usando categorías bastante generalizadas en nuestro entorno profesional y por tanto fácilmente reconocibles.
- Una clasificación más particularizada, usando etiquetas que resumen los temas que más nos interesan o los distintos enfoques desde los que abordamos los proyectos.
- Una sencilla clasificación temporal, por años.
En “beta”
La estructura de la página es muy sencilla, lo que nos permitirá actualizar nuestro “escaparate” fácilmente. Como presentar una página perfectamente pulida con todos los proyectos adecuadamente revisados corría peligro de seguir siendo algo “siempre en proyecto”, hemos decidido asumir completamente esta característica y publicarlo en beta, por lo que es posible que encontréis pequeños errores o cosas a medio desarrollar. Está bien. Sabemos que, ignorando al perfeccionista que algunos llevamos dentro, podremos vivir con ello.
Además de presentar hoy una primera versión del diseño y la estructura de la página, que iremos mejorando, hemos comenzado con una selección básica de doce proyectos, que iremos actualizando y completando a lo largo de las próximas semanas.
Concursos, ganados y no ganados, proyectos que se materializan y aquellos que nunca serán realizados… es interesante lo que se encuentra y lo que se piensa en el proceso de desenterrar ese trabajo y compartirlo.
De ahora en adelante…
… os iremos comentando por aquí las mejoras que vayamos haciendo o los proyectos que vayamos incorporando, prevemos que a bastante buen ritmo ahora que tenemos la base montada y en marcha.
Esperamos que os resulte interesante, estaremos encantados de recibir vuestros comentarios y sugerencias.
Today we are sharing with you some pictures of the impressive exhibition Importing Architecture which is on right now at the Nasjonalmuseet (National Museum for Art and Architecture) in Oslo.
We had the pleasure to be included in the selection and it was a great opportunity to attend the opening last November and get a chance to know more about the different projects which are under construction or have been just finished as well as the international offices who are behind them.
The exhibition raises the question of Norwegian identity in architecture and how ‘imported architects’ respond to it:
Are foreign architects reinforcing the trend toward a type of globalization that is dissolving national and cultural differences? Or are they even more concerned with formulating a Nordic or Norwegian identity than their Norwegian counterparts? Is it possible for an architect to create exceptional architecture in Norway without first-hand experience of Norwegian society, building traditions, climate or the natural environment? Or on the contrary, do foreign architects bring new ideas and ways of thinking that enrich the quality of Norwegian architecture?
Our installation is located by the ramp at the entrance of the exhibition. We tried to take advantage of the windows to display images of the Dreamhamarproject, along with four screens showing videos from the process. The physical-digital scale model of Stortorget (Main Square) was also brought from Hamar and installed on top of a vinyl that covers the floor resembling the pattern painted by Boamistura on the asphalt of the real square.
If you are in Oslo sometime between now and April, don’t miss it!
Como hemos comentado en anteriores posts, este año hemos tenido la oportunidad de participar en la Bienal de Venecia, dentro de la propuesta Spainlab, del Pabellón de España.
Ahora que se acaba de desmantelar la exposición, echamos la vista atrás a todo el material que hemos producido alrededor de este montaje. En posts anteriores os hemos presentado algunas imágenes del “cómo se hizo” y el aspecto final. Hoy queremos compartiros un documento que quizá ha pasado más desapercibido.
Se trata de un pequeño diagrama, que cada uno de los estudios invitados debía producir, en el que se resume la trayectoria y el trabajo de los equipos. El formato era libre, con la única condición de utilizar solo dos colores (negro+1). Todos estos diagramas están disponibles en el catálogo de la exposición y en la web de spainlab, aunque no son fáciles de encontrar. Por eso, a continuación, os dejamos los links directos a las imágenes de cada estudio:
El diagrama, en nuestro caso, es una especie de árbol genealógico de proyectos cuyas ramas más recientes confluyen en el proyecto de Dreamhamar, del que ya os hemos hablado en otras ocasiones, y que de alguna manera, recapitula lo aprendido y testado en trabajos anteriores, a la vez que incorpora nuevas estrategias y herramientas. Para cada proyecto he dibujado un icono-cómic, que resume las características principales.
Además, para presentároslo hoy, he optado por este sistema llamado zoom.it, que me parece muy sencillo pero con un gran potencial.
Espero vuestras opiniones: ¿creéis que el diagrama es comprensible? ¿os parece un buen resumen del trabajo de ecosistema urbano?
Today, Thursday Nov. 22nd is the official opening of the exhibition Importing Architecture at the NasjonalMuseet of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. The exhibition will be open to the public from tomorrow until April 2013.
Ecosistema Urbano team is pleased to be part of this exhibition with Dreamhamar project, a collective dream to redesign Hamar’s main public space, Stortorget. Other architecture offices included in the selection are: Steven Holl, MVDRV, Peter Zumthor, Renzo Piano, Vandkunsten, JDS, etc…
Here is the introduction by the curator of the exhibition, Eva Elisabeth Madshus:
An increasing number of foreign architects are winning competitions or receiving commissions in Norway. The exhibition takes up this relatively new and interesting development, which is primarily due to the introduction of the EU directive on competitions and more building activity in Norway than the rest of Europe.
This exhibition presents a selection of foreign architectural firms with projects in Norway. It also provides the basis for examining what this increasing internationalization means for Norwegian architecture’s identity and quality.
– Are foreign architects reinforcing the trend toward a type of globalization that is dissolving national and cultural differences? Or are they even more concerned with formulating a Nordic or Norwegian identity than their Norwegian counterparts?
– Is it possible for an architect to create exceptional architecture in Norway without firsthand experience of Norwegian society, building traditions, climate or the natural environment? Or on the contrary, do foreign architects bring new ideas and ways of thinking that enrich the quality of Norwegian architecture?
– Do the EU’s competition regulations, with their criteria for participation and ranking, ensure that the best architectural projects win? Or are foreign architects displacing their Norwegian counterparts in today’s highly competitive building market?
Debate about foreign influences on architecture is not entirely new. Craftsmen from the continent were involved in building Norwegian mediaeval churches, and after the dissolution of the union in 1814 the country’s new institutions were by and large designed by Danish and German architects. But since the beginning of the 1900s, once architecture was an established course of study at NTH (Norwegian Institute of Technology; today the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim), Norwegian architects have been responsible for the vast majority of building works in the country. It was not until the EU competition regulations were adopted in 1994 that foreign architects began to make inroads in the Norwegian market, and the trend has been sustained by the country’s strong oil-driven economy and numerous public sector building projects. In 2012 the results of these factors are striking: a dozen public building projects designed by foreign architects are either in preparation, under construction, or completed.
The architects included in this exhibition are consummate professionals. Their projects reflect exceptional quality at every stage – planning, design, choice of materials, execution – and many of them will become important sources of inspiration. Norwegian architecture is well served by intensified international competition. Every good architect can acquire competence about the particular context that a building project is always a part of, regardless of national origin. Thus, increasing globalization need not lead to uniformity in architecture.
Belinda Tato and Jose Luis Vallejo will be teaching at the Master in Work Space Design organized by the IE School of Architecture and Design, which will take place next year. They will be conducting the Design and Technology Lab with attended sessions in London and Madrid and on line sessions during winter 2013.
‘The Master in Work Space Design is a pioneering program based on analyses, skills and strategies for understanding and proposing creative ideas for the changing work place. The complex issues affecting the work environment, business and the individual today must take into account changes in technology, new forms of communication, increasing globalization, sustainability and of course, stakeholders’ expectations. Within the Master of Work Space Design all these issues will be explored and the most innovative solutions will be developed’.
Tomorrow October 16 José Luis Vallejo and Belinda Tato –Harvard GSD Design Critics in Urban Planning and Design– will be speaking on the design of environments, spaces and dynamics in order to improve the self-organization of citizens, social interaction within communities and their relationship with the environment.
¡Ya hemos comenzado el curso en Harvard! @jlvmateo y @belindatato somos este cuatrimestre de otoño profesores invitados en el máster del GSD de Harvard. Nuestro studio se llama “Networked Urbanism“.
El pasado día 30 de agosto fue la presentación del curso, el llamado “lottery day” donde todos los estudiantes de la escuela asisten a las presentaciones de los profesores invitados cada cuatrimestre y después eligen su grupo favorito. Esta vez, compitiendo por el favor de los estudiantes, podíamos encontrarnos con estrellas del firmamento arquitectónico de las últimas décadas (Nathalie de Vries de MVRDV, Christian Kerez, Ben van Berkel, …).
Esta es una foto del momento de la presentación del curso #networkedurbanism que nos hizo Blanca Abramek (@tendrebarbare) desde el auditorio:
Finalmente nos eligieron un grupo de estudiantes con perfiles muy distintos e interesantes, una mezcla de arquitectos, landscape architects y planners.
Si queréis estar al tanto de la producción de los estudiantes podéis seguir el curso en el blog del studiowww.networkedurbanism.com donde estamos compartiendo enlaces y referencias. En Twitter podéis seguir #networkedurbanism donde estamos compartiendo información permanentemente.
Os dejamos con el brief del curso y la presentación. Enjoy it!
Course Description
The boundary between public and private is shifting. The one between personal and professional is becoming increasingly blurred. This rapid evolution has led us to conceive and experience physical space differently than in the past. Real-time connectivity, ubiquity, unlimited access to large flows of information and knowledge, have also altered the way we relate to and work with each other. However, despite those rapid social and technological changes, city planning processes worldwide remain dull, bureaucratic and insensitive to how humans experience the city.
This studio will bring an alternative to the traditional way of designing cities from a bird’s eye view, and a single designer’s perspective. It will not only examine the physical dimension of the city, but also its social processes and fluxes.
Students will be encouraged to use this data to develop individual and collective initiatives that generate spontaneous transformations and set up conditions for change instead of delivering a completely finished product.
In a connected world, an urban design should be the result of an open and multilayered network of creative designers, technical experts, citizens and stakeholders. The studio will challenge the students to develop designs that reconcile the existing physical conditions—that respond to lifestyles from the past—with the emerging needs of the citizens through network design thinking.
We will also explore the new role of a designer as an activator, mediator and curator of social processes in a networked reality in which citizens have shifted from being passive receivers or consumers to active producers or prosumers.
Main topics will include: communication and information technology, open data, mobility, open source, transparency/mapping, activism, design thinking and environment awareness.
La presentación original consta de una serie de GIFs animados que se reproducen en bucle mientras se explica cada apartado. Aquí, por facilidad de comprensión, hemos puesto cada animación por separado, acompañada del texto correspondiente de la presentación (en inglés).
00 #networkedurbanism
We are presenting our option studio called Networked Urbanism:
01 What?
Urbanism is the mirror where other aspects of society and layers of information reflect. Architects, Sociologists, economists, geographers, seem to be cloistered in their specificconceptual worlds and focus on developing only certain aspects of the problem linked to their interests and profession:
We believe that in today’s connected world, an urban design should be the result of an openand multilayered network of creative designers, technical experts, citizens andstakeholders, combining design with data, needs, inputs. As David Harvey states in his article The Right to the City:
“The right to the city is not merely a right of access to what already exists, but a right tochange it after our heart’s desire”
Within this new context, it is necessary to explore the new role of the designer as an activator,mediator and curator of social processes in a networked reality in which citizens haveshifted from being passive receivers or consumers to active producers or prosumers:
In addition, Internet is the “space” where the most successful models of collective creationand self-organization are taking place. Internet is the most democratic space, the platformwhere every citizen can express him/herself freely and horizontally, the space where ideasflow in every direction.This studio will bring an alternative to the traditional way of designing cities from a bird’s eyeview, and a single designer’s perspective. It will, not only examine the physical dimension of the city, but also its social processes.Students will be challenged to develop designs that reconcile the existing physical conditions-that respond to lifestyles from the past- with the emerging needs of the citizens throughnetwork design thinking.
02 How?
In contrast with a more traditional way of teaching in which information goes unidirectionally from ‘knowledge-owners’ to ‘knowledge receivers’. We do apply the concepts of active learning, which focuses the responsibility of learning, on learners; learning by doing, an active constructive learning process, and networked learning, a process of developing and maintaining connections with people, information and communicating in such a way so as to support one another’s learning. The central term in this definition is connections. Connections among students as well as connections between students and information:
We will become a networked group using a studio Twitter network for sharing knowledge,experiences, references and comments throughout the whole process.
This course is for active, curious, versatile, open minded and creative people regardless their previous background, experience or computer skills.
We understand our role as designers is challenging since one has to overcome all kind of obstacles. So we want to make of this studio a training experience.
You could either be a MacGyver type of personality, being able to implement amazing devices from a piece of cardboard, a chip and chewing gum; or a computer geeky updated version of NEO in the movie Matrix, working on his own individually in a room but actively connected to the network community. You are all welcome.
From all the possible /fascinating cities worldwide, we decided to explore the city that surrounds us: Boston.
04 Where?
Students will be encouraged to explore and discover its community, economy, social networks, environmental challenges, digital layer, physical infrastructure, public space, and more. Creating connections and links between existing initiatives and their own projects.
Instead of experiencing just the physical sphere of the city, we will arrange an anthropological tour to meet interesting professionals who are dealing with urban issues in different ways and by different means. This will give us a different perception of Boston, revealing layers which are currently invisible to us.
05 When?
Instead of air-commuting, parachuting and landing every two weeks, we decided to camp this time.
We will be based in Boston to share the experience with you and make the most out of it, so we will be available every week with studio meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There will be both collective and individual sessions.
In addition the group will be real-time connected with Twitter.
06 So what?
Outcomes from our different teaching experiences are diverse: from socially engaged projects working with the community to designing a responsive interactive façade and building a prototype of it. From working with Arduino electronics, to instantly transforming a deprived corner of the city by hand work getting new reactions from people.
From creating a digital interface to enhance community networking to building a mobile kitchen as a catalyst for the activation of a central city square.Spain, Norway, Denmark, France, Italy, Bahrein, US … different environments and different cultures but always a lot of shared energy and enthusiasm. We are very happy to say that some of these projects developed within the studios grew beyond the academic boundaries becoming professional investigations and businesses:
ecosistema urbano is a Madrid based group of architects and urban designers operating within the fields of urbanism, architecture, engineering and sociology. We define our approach as urban social design by which we understand the design of environments, spaces and dynamics in order to improve self-organization of citizens, social interaction within communities and their relationship with the environment. We have used this philosophy to design and implement projects in Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, France and China.We have a background in architecture and urban design and we build buildings, we organize demonstrations, we design urban strategies, working in both the physical and digital spheres. We are currently exploring new ways of engaging citizens into urban design matters.
DREAM YOUR CITY is our latest project, developed for the city of Hamar in Norway. It was officially presented short before at the opening of the Biennale of Architecture in Venice:
We hope you enjoy it and get some inspiration for the Fall! We are thrilled to be back here at the GSD and we are looking forward to start!
Today we introduce Francesco Cingolani, one of our closest collaborators in the past couple of years. In the following post he explains some of his projects and interests, and his experience in Ecosistema Urbano.
Photo above by urban sociologist Andres Walliser, good friend and collaborator.
I have studied architecture and engineering and I’ve always been interested in the relationship between creativity and new technologies, more than in building. For the last 3 years I’ve been payed to work as an architect, professional blogger and creative project manager. Since 2012 I’ve been teaching parametric design in Paris at “École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires” in Marne-la-Vallée.
I recently started my first projects as entrepreneur: one is a creative cohousing in Madrid and the other is about going into Parisian apartments and create handmade Italian pasta; the project is called farine00 and I’m in this with Valentina, in the photo below. At the moment, people are just crazy about those projects but we still don’t get any income from them. Old story.
I am 34, Italian and I have been living in Paris for 9 years. 3 years ago I quit my job at Hugh Dutton Associates to move to Madrid and work with Ecosistema Urbano, Basurama, Meipi and other amazing people from Spain.
In Ecosistema Urbano, I was in charge of the DIGITAL COORDINATION of dreamhamar, a network design and participation process in Norway. It was the most interesting project I participated since I am working. It was also the most stressful one. Old story.
I think that the most interesting shift in recent design experience is that we have passed from designing object to designing networks and processes. That’s why for dreamhamar we’ve developed a network design methodology. As a project manager, I also applied minimalism as a management tool for highly complex processes which often tend to information overload.
At Ecosistema Urbano I also was in charge of the development of Urban Social Design Experience, a network learning experience focused on participatory processes and sustainability.
Before that, I took part in some more architectural projects. I especially like this one with Ecosistema Urbano and Koz and the new Louvre in Paris with Hugh Dutton Associates, that is opening in September (photo below).
Since january 2012, I am trying to work no more than 3 hours per day and check my email box only 3 times a week. The italian newspaper “Il Corriere della Sera” featured my story as an example of downshifting in its magazine “Sette”.
I am a walker, and last year I realised intraverso, a slowlife and storytelling project in collaboration with the Italian magazine whymarche. The project included a slow, walking trip through Italian countryside and a digital journal.
Since 4 months ago I am moving through Europe and working remotely without a unique location, even if I consider Paris as my principal home. I don’t have a clear idea of what I am doing in the next future. Looking for new stories.
When writing for the Internet like this, I like sharing details of my physical location:
The Cultural Rucksack (Den Kulturelle Skolesekken) is a Norwegian national programme for art and culture provided by professionals in Norwegian schools. The programme helps school pupils to become acquainted with all kinds of professional art and cultural expressions. Last year Hamar Kommune decide to connect it with the project Dreamhamar which was at that point under development. This meant that 1292 students from different local schools joined dreamhamar providing their own ideas for the square Stortorget.
From fountains to hot dogs, from ice skating rinks to dancing contests, all sort of ideas emerged through the process and some of them made it through influencing the final design.
This year, again, the Kommune joined Den Kulturelle Skolesekken with Dreamhamar and our colleague Liz Eva Tollefsen is working on site, sharing with a new group of students the whole creative process as well as the final design we delivered last July.
We are really looking forward to see this year’s ideas and we hope kids get interested on urban landscape and design.
If you are curious about last year’s activities, you can check our Flickr galleries, featuring a small selection of the more than 1000 drawings and models we collected:
From past August 27th to November 25th, the Venice Biennale of Architecture, titled “Common Ground”, is open to visitors; and so is SpainLab, the Spanish pavilion, in which we were invited to take part for this edition.
The curators Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa proposed us to show the way we work, according to the “lab” approach of the pavilion. We decided to do this with a single project, Dreamhamar, which incorporates many of the concepts, objectives and means that Ecosistema Urbano has been working on and is currently experimenting with: urban development, advocacy, citizen participation, workshops, digital tools, design, open culture, network learning, urban actions, network design…
We understand the role of the architect and urban planner is undergoing a huge transformation according to the new needs of contemporary society. This forces us to redevelop a whole “set of tools” to be able to meet these new needs and challenges. Under the title of DREAM YOUR CITY we explain these new tools or methods we are dealing with and the way we think network design can be applied to socially engaged designs for the creation of city spaces. This 90 seconds movie illustrates how we understand network design and how we specifically implemented it in Hamar or how it could be applied somewhere else.
Video by ecosistema urbano + forma.co
Considering the ephemeral nature of the exhibition, we chose to make it a simple, lightweight installation, consistent with the way we are used to work in this kind of projects: trying to get the most out of minimal resources and low-cost means. Almost all materials needed for the installation were taken to Venice by ourselves, as checked-in luggage.
The paint that covers the floor and the walls, made by urban artists Boamistura, transforms the perception and character of the space with a single intervention, bringing to the hall the look and feel of the previous PaintHamar urban action in Stortorget, the main square of Hamar. The natural light, the seats integrated on the floor and the trampoline all recall that outdoor public space and invite visitors to occupy it with their minds and bodies.
Seven small screens show videos telling different aspects of the network design process we deployed in Hamar, giving the visitor some brief glimpses of the variety and complexity of the project without trying to explain it thoroughly –which will be done soon in a more suitable format.
A series of real-scale pictures of various day-to-day objects that were used during Dreamhamar, some of them being physically on display, show the variety of work/life situations that the team had to cope with while working in this project both remotely from Madrid and locally in Norway. From the more disciplinary tools to objects related to social life or cultural events, they evoke the changing role of the urban professional.
Here are some quick photos we shot during the process, taken from the Flickr gallery.
We invite you to visit the installation, have some fun jumping on the trampoline and imagining you are in Stortorget, and share your thoughts –and your photos!– with us on Twitter, Facebook or just down here in the comments.
Por fin, tras un prolongado silencio veraniego, ¡volvemos con el blog! Un silencio que no ha sido —sólo— de descanso y desconexión, sino también debido a la gran actividad que hemos tenido en el estudio, ocupados con varios proyectos que os iremos contando en las próximas entradas.
Han sido unos meses intensos, con la oficina llena de gente y de energía, con una mezcla refrescante de idiomas y culturas diferentes, y volvemos ahora con ganas tanto de retomar cosas pendientes como de comenzar un nuevo período en la actividad de Ecosistema Urbano.
Así que aquí estamos de nuevo, poniendo en marcha nuestros espacios físicos y digitales, en los que esperamos encontraros a todos, colaboradores, clientes, seguidores, colegas y amigos, de una u otra manera.
A lo largo de estos meses hemos trabajado desarrollando la propuesta, una escuela-laboratorio donde experimentar nuevas aproximaciones a la educación infantil, intentando ofrecer una respuesta que potenciara el espíritu de la Fundación Reggio Children, su método de trabajo y su filosofía, abordando a su vez temas de eficiencia energética, sostenibilidad, participación, etc. Ha sido apasionante profundizar en el “Reggio approach” y su método de aprendizaje, y experimentar con el papel que juega el entorno espacial y urbano en el contexto educativo.
Es un honor para nosotros saber que hemos resultado ganadores del concurso, compitiendo con extraordinarios equipos de toda Europa. El desarrollo de la propuesta y la materialización de las soluciones se plantean como un reto que estamos deseando afrontar.
¡Enhorabuena, Ecosistema!
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Os dejamos con un extracto (en inglés) de las consideraciones del jurado del concurso.
“The proposed solution is the best suited to represent the new school concept, making the new building a new collective experiment. The building itself becomes an opportunity for comparison, on issues of sustainability and eco-backwards compatibility, making the children themselves active participants. The construction techniques proposed include a development which can be implemented over time, according to needs for teaching-learning related to the school’s teaching plan, which makes the construction of the building itself a community project, seen as a process rather than a point of arrival”.
El próximo otoño, Jose Luis Vallejo y yo, Belinda Tato, de ecosistema urbano nos unimos una vez más al equipo de GSD Harvard comoVisiting Professors dentro del departamento de Urban Design, que dirige Rahul Mehrotra.
El título del option studio es Urban Social Design II, una continuación del taller que realizamos en 2010, donde exploramos la construcción de un nuevo espacio público aumentado fruto de una nueva relación entre lo físico, el espacio digital y el ámbito social. Los estudiantes trabajarán en el desarrollo de nuevas herramientas que posibiliten una mayor y mejor participación democrática en la vida urbana como una respuesta más eficiente a los nuevos problemas urbanos contemporáneos. Y como caso de estudio… la ciudad de Boston.
A continuación os mostramos uno de los proyectos más interesantes realizados en el Taller que allí realizamos en 2010.
Mike Styczynski -estudiante del GSD Harvard- crea con Actual Air un proyecto híbrido entre instrumento de medición, base de datos y red social. Detectando altos niveles de asma en un barrio de Boston, se plantea profundizar en este fenómeno, sus causas y consecuencias. Para visualizar, registrar y denunciar los alarmantes niveles de contaminación, elige un elemento de uso cotidiano en la ciudad, la bicicleta. Actual Air es un dispositivo plug in que se acopla fácilmente a cualquier rueda de bicicleta, monitorizando la calidad del aire a través de distintos sensores. Un piloto de iluminación LED varía de color en función del grado de contaminación y dicha información recogida en tiempo real, es volcada a una base de datos en la web, mapeando los niveles de contaminación urbana, y visibilizando un problema hasta entonces ignorado. La información, así accesible, es un instrumento al servicio de la comunidad para potenciar la controversia.
Por acción o por omisión, cualquier iniciativa ciudadana tiene significado político. El geógrafo y teórico social David Harvey habla de la necesidad de acostumbrarnos al conflicto continuo que promueva el consenso para generar entornos urbanos saludables. Por ello, debemos percibir como positivas las iniciativas de carácter reivindicativo que activando a los ciudadanos generan ese clima de debate.
Mike ha continuado con el desarrollo de su proyecto más allá de GSD, lo cual responde a la actitud proactiva que intentamos potenciar en los estudiantes, con el desarrollo de nuevas herramientas que les capaciten y conecten con nuevas posibilidades de desarrollo profesional.
Estamos entusiasmados con esta nueva etapa en Harvard. Y si estás por Boston el próximo otoño, ¡te esperamos en el GSD!
Página oficial de Harvard GSD
Si quieres saber más sobre el proyecto: ActualAir.org o en Facebook
Fotos cortesía de Mike Styczynski
Ecosistema Urbano has, together with the Norwegian architecture office 70°N arkitektur, the Danish landscape studio Kristine Jensen, the Swedish lighting firm Ljusarkitektur and Atkins engineers, been prequalified for the planning competition in Kiruna, Sweden.
Kiruna kommune has shortlisted 10 international teams —out of 56 that were applying— for the next phase of the competition.
It’s an unusual, but very interesting challenge the Municipality of Kiruna is facing after more than a century of mining by the LKAB company. The ground is becoming unstable as some of the main tunnels are localised right underneath the city, so the city centre and all other areas affected will have to be relocated. In a time frame of approximately 20 to 25 years, some 400,000 sq. m. of housing and non-housing development will need to be replaced within the forecasting line of LKAB’s next main level, 1,365 metres below ground.
The aim for the competition is to create a sustainable, distinctive and pleasant urban environment, a city centre linking together surrounding housing and industrial areas with the whole city and constituting the natural hub of the new Kiruna. This is an opportunity for creating something completely new, emanating from Kiruna’s unique history, to accommodate future needs and the desire for good living in an Arctic climate.
We are very excited to start working with the other firms in our team in this competition, and we look forward to develop the future Kiruna during autumn 2012.
From the time of Heraclitus’ saying, “the only thing constant is change itself”, we have sought to make sense of our changing world. It can be argued that architecture in both the academic and professional realms is experiencing pressures as never before, and is shifting due to multiple factors. These forces include globalization, the expanding roles of technology, rapid urbanization, new energy policies, and regulatory agencies, among many others. What are the forces for change being exerted on our academic institutions and where do they come from? Are we still teaching in a way that is relevant to the contemporary practice of architecture, or perhaps we wish that practice would change?
The relationship between schools and the profession can be very permeable and often imprecise. Each informs the other, at times leading to greater relevance, at other times leaving disconcerting gaps. What role should schools and academics play in the face of our changing world? Will we be leaders or followers?
ACSA is The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, a nonprofit, membership association founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education. The 2012 ACSA International Conference will focus on CHANGE, and will explore these issues in relation to seven themes: Civic Engagement, Academia, Practice, Technology, Cities, Globalization, Sustainability and one flexible open category. The Co-chairs of the conference are Xavier Costa from Northeastern University and Martha Thorne, from IE University.
Last year, 2011, when we moved to Hamar and started working for the new Stortorget, we had the opportunity to meet Vandkunsten, the danish office responsible for the design of the new Culture house in Hamar. We then started to know more about their work and different and interesting projects.From this encounter, we cooperated together for the competition of Albertslund Syd, an intervention for the renovation of 1.000 courtyard houses in Copenhagen. The team also included other companies and professionals as Wissenberg, Transolar, Lise Gamst, Imagine Envelope, etc. The task was to develop the best suggestion for the renovation of the houses and to provide ideas for the urban architectural vision for improving Albertslund Syd.
Last week we found out we have won the competition. We are very excited about this, and we are looking forward to start this new cooperation!
Ecosistema Urbano will lecture next Thursday in Tromsø, a city located 1.643 km north from Oslo. The lecture is hosted by the North Norwegian Architects Association and will take place at Drivloftet, starting at 8.30 pm on Thursday, 14th.
I will present Ecosistema Urbano latest works, including dreamhamar, the project we are currently developing for the main public space of Hamar, Norway.
By the way, this is the further north I have ever been to… I guess their summer is different from ours.
Desde Ecosistema urbano os deseamos un feliz año 2012.
Nosotros hemos comenzado el año celebrando el Día del Dominio Público, con la entrada en éste de las obras de autores como James Joyce, Rabindranath Tagore o Virginia Woolf, y estrenando en nuestro blog una nueva serie de artículos sobre el placemaking, uno de los conceptos más interesantes de las últimas décadas en lo que al espacio público se refiere. Además, estamos ahora mismo trabajando en otras iniciativas y proyectos que iremos presentando a su tiempo.
Sabemos que hay muchas más cosas interesantes y positivas hechas y por hacer, así que desde este blog seguiremos trayéndoos reflexiones, proyectos, iniciativas, ideas y referencias que nos ayuden a pensar de otra manera y a trabajar mejor en aquello en lo que creemos y por lo que apostamos.
Un saludo con nuestros mejores deseos, y gracias por formar parte de esto.
Dear readers, followers and collaborators:
We wish you a happy 2012 from Ecosistema Urbano.
We have started the year celebrating the Public Domain Day, with the entry into it of the works of authors like James Joyce, Rabindranath Tagore or Virginia Woolf, and also launching on our blog a new series of articles about placemaking, one of the most interesting concepts of the last decades regarding public space. Right now we are also working on other initiatives and projects that will be presented at the right time.
We know there are a lot of interesting and positive things going on around us, and from this blog we will keep on bringing to you those projects, thoughts, initiatives, ideas and references that help us thinking in a different way and working on the things we believe in.
Have our best wishes and regards, and thank you from being part of this.
My four months internship at Ecosistema Urbano is at the end. Working with such a great team, of young creative people is excellent experience for me at the point when I am just about to start my professional career. When I came here I immediately landed in the dreamhamar project. I took part at preliminary design process and now I am a part of a network design team. Coordinating, communicating, developing and dreaming Hamar’s square with so many participants and experts made this four months even shorter.
I am from Slovenia and I am an undergraduate student in the urbanism oriented program at the Faculty of Architecture from the University of Ljubljana. Before I finish my studies I decided to take the opportunity of the scholarship for international training exchange and to apply for internship.
In academic year 2009/2010 I was on Erasmus student exchange in ETSAG, University of Alcalá and became more familiar with Madrid’s architecture and also with Ecosistema Urbano, which became one of my favorite’s studios. Specially because of the projects, which are creative, smart, innovative, social and environmentally friendly. Probably the endless blue sky and mostly sunny weather only helped in my decision to come to Madrid again.
I am also the kind of person who always thinks that she does not have enough knowledge and I am always searching for new ways to learn more. Not just more about architecture but also about things from other professions, because when you have knowledge from different fields you can manage it and do things better. And my curiosity only helps. All this I found here and after four months I am even more convinced that my choice about the internship was right.
Last Saturday dreamhamar was officially launched in Hamar. Officially that is, as the project has been already running for already 3 months. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to dreamhamar!
For the past 50 years, the main square of Hamar, Stortorget, has been a parking lot. Alread busy one in the 60′s, as you can see in this picture. This is how things were, until now. The time has come to say good bye to engines and honks in Stortorget Square.
In December 2013, the construction of the new Stortorget Square will be finished and the square will become public space again. Like back on the day, it will be a public square made of people – rather than cars -, made of the sounds of laughter and distant conversations.
As you may already know, ecosistema urbano is the chosen architecture and urban design firm that will lead the redesigning process of the new square. We decided we didn’t want to wait until to 2013 to enjoy a public space in Hamar, since the city needed it and we needed an outdoor working space for the upcoming workshops where every citizen of Hamar will be able to shape the future of the square. So we set a date: Saturday 17th, September 2011.
_ Stortorget 2011. Frank and the bollards. Be careful with your feet!
To celebrate this new beginning for Stortorget, we managed to close the parking lot by simply moving and changing the use of the existing granite bollards, from being the limit of the parking lot, to benches and tables for this temporary public space. As you can see in the picture, we have Frank and his team to thank for this space. It was a simple, but impressive, transformation. _ Stortorget 2011, not a parking lot anymore
A little sunshine is enough to draw people to the square. Now the stone cubes are places to rest, have an ice-cream, jump or talk.
_ Boamistura working on the painting design. What will they come up with?
Stortorget was still grey and uninviting. So we called Boa Mistura, an urban art collective from Madrid, to re-interpret the temporary public space.
"> _ Boamistura recreating a pattern based upon Norwegian cultural roots
It took 3 days, 52 hours of work, 120 litters of paints and 10 hands, to transform the space in a cheerful, colorful, stage for creativity and innovation.
_ Hurry up, guys! The weatherman forecasted rain!
Starting at 14h, the city of Hamar gathered at Stortorget for the opening event of dreamhamar. At the beginning, no one dared to walk over the new paint, but little by little the space filled with people.
Gry Veronica Engli, a lovely energetic woman who supported the project since the competition phase, presented dreamhamar and invited everyone to participate. Then, the acknowledgements: We thank to Eidvisa Breadbånd, who provides FREE wi-fi to the square! Hamar sentrum who helped us with communication and sound system, MEDIA 1 who supported us with the printing and graphic design, the viking ship for letting us the LED screen and folkehøgskole for letting us use their sound system.
Right after, there was a serie of speeches starting the Mayor, Einar Busterud, and ending with the invited guests.
_ The mayor of Hamar, Einar Busterud.
The Mayor had the honour of the opening speech:
These wore some of his words to the citizens of Hamar:
“Today we are building the foundation of what the citizens, in a 100 years from now, are going to feel about our main square. In the future, the question will be: - Where were you when Stortorget was redesigned? Then you will have to possible answers: Either you can tell us about your participation, or you can explain why you weren’t there. If you are not participating, don’t complain afterwards. The only certain thing is that the square has to change. So please, come join us for this process. Stand up and be a responsible citizen!”
There were many other speeches (we are planning on publishing them too). When they were over, Gry invited everyone to visit the dreamhamar office in the basar building - the physical LAB, which was quickly filled with people who were looking at the interactive model, registering for the workshops, reading information about the project. Overall, it was a great sucess as over 60 names were registered!
_ The Physical LAB. You are invited to come and visit us!
This is how Stortorget looked after the artistic intervention of Boamistura.
It makes you wanna jump, doesn’t it?
It is amazing what some paint and lots of imagination can do. Get used to experimenting with Stortorget! It has potential!
Those who stayed outside, watched the video introducing the different collaborators of the project. I will leave you with them. As you can see, dreamhamar is in good hands!
En unos minutos, a las 14:00h comenzará el evento que marca el comienzo del proceso de network design destinado a rediseñar la plaza mayor de Hamar, Stortorget Square.
En el acto participarán el alcalde, artistas locales y representantes de la comunidad, y Boamistura realizará una intervención en la plaza. Se puede ver en directo a través del digital LAB de dreamhamar.org o en la página web del ayuntamiento de Hamar.
Comienzan así 3 meses de workshops, conferencias y otras actividades destinadas a diseñar, de forma colectiva, participativa y transparente, el nuevo centro urbano de Hamar (Noruega).
Si eres creativo y te interesan los temas urbanos, puedes participar en este proceso a través de los online workshops.
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MÁS INFORMACIÓN SOBRE EL PROYECTO DREAMHAMAR Y LA METODOLOGÍA DE DISEÑO PARTICIPATIVO NETWORK DESIG EN:
No, aunque sea verano no nos vamos de vacaciones. Nos trasladamos a Hamar para trabajar en el proyecto de diseño colaborativo dreamhamar.
Los próximos días realizaremos el trayecto Madrid-Hamar en coche. Sobre el viaje sí que podemos prometeros un post que esperamos os resulte interesante.
A partir de entonces contad con que seguiremos publicando posts relacionados con dreamhamar y el proceso de rediseño de Stortorget Square los lunes y los viernes y, siempre que nos quede tiempo y energía, publicaremos algún artículo más entre semana.
Disfrutad de lo que queda de verano y no os os olvidéis de nosotros.
Since last Thursday part of Ecosistema Urbano (@ecosistema) is in Hamar for the dreamhamar project.
Belinda Tato and Noa Peer (@belindatato, @dolceoblio) are in Hamar making contacts within Hamar’s social fabric and trying to get as many people involved as possible. Today they will share with us dreamhamar‘s progress on Hamar Experience, at 18:00 (Madrid, Norway time).
There will be five FREE workshops for the Hedmark County residents to participate on. By means of these workshops their ideas will become part of the network design process of dreamhamar.
For those who do not live in Hedmark, the online workshops are the best way to participate in dreamhamar. Registration is open until September 26th.
El curso coordinado por Belinda Tato (@belindatato) y Domenico Di Siena (@urbanohumano), tendrá por titulo URBAN SOCIAL DESIGN.
El objetivo es ofercer una mirada poliédrica sobre la ciudad explorando nuevas herramientas, dinámicas y metodologías sobre participación, creación colectiva, trabajo en red, nuevas tecnologías, cultura urbana e innovación social.
El curso tendrá lugar los días 19 y 20 de septiembre 2011. Para matricula y más información: http://www.unia.es
A continuación os presentamos los ponentes y los temas que tratarán (en orden de participación):
Ecosistema urbano is always searching for talented people, but many times it works the other way around and we feel very lucky to be directly contacted by them. Today I want to introduce you to another person who has joined us at ecosistema urbano. We are very pleased with Gitte and with all collaborators that want to join us and share their unique backgrounds, that brings a fresh approach to our work.
_BA, Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Denmark. 2007-2010
_Stud.arch MAA at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Denmark. 2010-
Last May Ecosistema Urbano was leading a workshop at the international architectural event, curated by Stefano Boeri, FESTARCH 2011 (festarch.it). It was held at Terni in the Italian region of Umbria.
Jose Luis Vallejo (@jlvmateo) and Domenico Di Siena (@urbanohumano) from Ecosistema Urbano (@ecosistema) were working with a group of young european architects, students and local citizens experiencing the complexity of the city.
These are the different strategies followed during the workshop to activate aspects of the city of Terni: (Our special thanks to Pier Francesco Duranti, the most creative Terni citizen, who helped all of us during our days in Terni)
From this encounter, we cooperated together for the competition of Albertslund Syd, an intervention for the renovation of 1.000 courtyard houses in Copenhagen. The team also included other companies and professionals as Wissenberg, Transolar, Lise Gamst, Imagine Envelope, etc. The task was to develop the best suggestion for the renovation of the houses and to provide ideas for the urban architectural vision for improving Albertslund Syd.
