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Transnational Network engaging with Communities through Architecture and Design
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The School of Garage Chemnitz 2025
The School of Garage Chemnitz 2025
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Spree Space @ Spreepark Art Space, Berlin
Spree Space @ Spreepark Art Space, Berlin
Interventions at Spreepark Art Space, Berlin. The "Spree Space" works reimagine the park’s layered past, transforming relics of amusement and traces of nature into playful, evolving installations that invite new narratives to take root.
 
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Rafty Stiemer Expedition
Rafty Stiemer Expedition
Rafty Stiemer Expedition
 
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‘Wildernis Invites’ // Project Updates & Stories
‘Wildernis Invites’ // Project Updates & Stories
This blog documents the various stages of the 'Wildernis Invites' project and keeps you updated along the way.
 
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Walking Stage “UMA REVOLUÇÃO”
Walking Stage “UMA REVOLUÇÃO”
A mobile platform fostering dialogue, action, and solidarity around Lisbon’s housing crisis and the urgent need for equitable living solutions.
 
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Supibasiilika
Supibasiilika
10 or more days of soup
 
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Kiosk for Reciprocity
Kiosk for Reciprocity
The Kiosk for Reciprocity serves as a mobile platform, moving between various socio-cultural hybrid spaces to foster exchange and debate on the solidarity economy and collaborative welfare in Milan.
 
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Flora
Flora
Architectural pavilion at Rubens Castle
 
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Fabriek Akoestiek
Fabriek Akoestiek
Making sounds tangible and physical in relation to matter and bodies
 
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Wood Food Ink Market
Wood Food Ink Market
A workshop focusing on three aspects: WOOD, FOOD, and INK; a space for assembly, collective creation, sharing, and decision-making generating insights about collaborative economies and cooperative intelligence.
 
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Assemblea delle Casette
Assemblea delle Casette
A prototype for Maintenance 1:1, the workshop program of the German Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.
 
Publication
Convivial Ground
Convivial Ground
“Together, we are improvising. Decisions become shared ones. We will have built this city together.”
 
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Jardin des herbes de Sainte-Monique
Jardin des herbes de Sainte-Monique
An experimental garden to grow roots and relations.
 
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Kiosk of Solidarity
Kiosk of Solidarity
A space of possibility, a mobile meeting space, a collaborative place of knowledge exchange, a transformative platform, a laboratory for urban practice knowledge
 
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Casa do Vapor
Casa do Vapor
Bom dia, Cova do Vapor!
 
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The Arch
The Arch
A socio-circular gate to technology!
 
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ARGE unmittelbare Nachbarschaft
ARGE unmittelbare Nachbarschaft
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Gestaltungsräume um das MKG
 
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Giardino Ammirato
Giardino Ammirato
"E facciamolo, un giardino!’’ (And, let's make a garden!)
 
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Poppenbüttel Community Centre 2016-2017
Poppenbüttel Community Centre 2016-2017
 
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Living Summer School ’23
Living Summer School ’23
Living makeshifts
 
Talk
On the network: Reclaiming words
On the network: Reclaiming words
Workshop on 'Engaging with Territories'
 
Talk
How Together
How Together
Lecture by Constructlab for Archipel
 
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Nourriture passe Nature
Nourriture passe Nature
Nourriture passe Nature
 
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Museum of Arte Util
Museum of Arte Util
How can we ‘use’ the museum? How can it become a civic institution for production and output?
 
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The W.o.W.
The W.o.W.
Workshop on Wheels
 
Blog
Grab your copy of ‘Convivial Ground’ now!
Grab your copy of ‘Convivial Ground’ now!
 
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On The Move – BROEI
On The Move – BROEI
Redesigning our modular structures from a medieval castle to a new hangar
 
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Who are we?
Who are we?
Encouraging a discussion on ‘our’ organisations
 
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Hallo: Plataforma Trafaria
Hallo: Plataforma Trafaria
Converting Trafaria’s old prison into a temporary laboratory
 
Blog
Re-Sorting Power Territories
Re-Sorting Power Territories
 
Project
Kistenflitzer
Kistenflitzer
mobile social tool to connecting villages in East Germany
 
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Aldea
Aldea
Re-inhabiting an abandoned rural space in order to host a multidisciplinary knowledge program around the relationship between art, farmers’ knowledge and agroecology.
 
Blog
The Apartment on Wheels (A.o.W.)
On tour with the W.o.W.
 
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Messy Kiosk
Messy Kiosk
"An information system and a resting point. It is never just one or the other. It is always a lot and everything at the same time."
 
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Le cours de l’eau, la cour et l’eau
Le cours de l’eau, la cour et l’eau
The program of the workshop flows with the flow of water
 
Blog
How to Build your Classroom
 
Event
Workshop: Horizontality is not a value – On the working of collaborative economy
Workshop: Horizontality is not a value – On the working of collaborative economy
'On the network' symposium
 
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Le Geyser
Le Geyser
Superstock
 
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#costruirelimprovviso
#costruirelimprovviso
Design and collaborative self-construction of the furniture for the cultural centre Mare Culturale Urbano.
 
Event
Workshop: Engaging with Territories
Workshop: Engaging with Territories
'On the network' symposium
 
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Living Summer School ’24
Living Summer School ’24
Living in repairs
 
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Druck am Dreesch
Druck am Dreesch
For the opening of the new “M*Halle” the Mecklenburg State Theater a print workshop was set up as a conversational tool
 
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Wildernis Invites
Wildernis Invites
An ongoing process of building the new headquarters of Wildebras in the island of Wildernis, an adventure playground for kids.
 
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Last Resort
Last Resort
Thinking about Rubens Castle through the idea of the resort. By inhabitation its upcoming touristic function, historical development and environmental challenges are explored.
 
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Cooking Line
Cooking Line
Workshop at ESAAA. The cooking line is a culinary performance along a rail, conceived as an image of the industrial production chain.
 
Publication
Livre Invisible
Livre Invisible
Mon(s) Invisible - the Book
 
Project
Yart Duivelsteen
Yart Duivelsteen
Walkeable roofs transforming the frontyard of the medieval Duivelsteen
 
Talk
On the network: Do not vote!
On the network: Do not vote!
Workshop on 'Horizontality is not a value - On the working of collaborative economy'
 
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Mont Réel
Mont Réel
A Gathering Place for the Multitude of Urban Cultures
 
Event
Workshop: Learning (what, how, where, who, with whom)
Workshop: Learning (what, how, where, who, with whom)
'On the network' symposium
 
Blog
Who Are We #6 Feminist Night Scapes
 
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International digital network Constructlab
International digital network Constructlab
How together, how to gather? Creation of this digital platform for Constructlab
 
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Construir Juntos
Construir Juntos
 
Publication
How Together
How Together
It’s not a manual. It’s an anti-manual.
 
Talk
On the network: De-constructlab
On the network: De-constructlab
Workshop on 'Climate Activating'
 
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[de]constructlab
[de]constructlab
A dismantling process on how to carefully deconstruct materials for reuse, ensuring sustainability and giving them a second life for future creations.
 
Talk
Interview with Alex Römer about urban practices
Interview with Alex Römer about urban practices
By S27 - Kunst und Bildung
 
Project
Metavilla
Metavilla
French Pavilion - 10th Venice Architecture Biennale 2006 - EXYZT
 
Blog
COMvivência(s)
COMvivência(s)
 
Project
The Devil Castle
The Devil Castle
Building modular pioneering structures in a medieval castle
 
Talk
Living the City Double Feature
Living the City Double Feature
Talk with Licia Soldavini , Tomma Suki Hinrichsen and host Lukas Feireiss.
 
Project
DISplay
DISplay
We'll Find Ways: a hybrid communication platform, where social and cultural relationships are reinforced
 
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The Longest Bench of Brussels
The Longest Bench of Brussels
one week, 10 eclectic benches
 
Publication
How to build a mountain · Comment construire une montagne
How to build a mountain · Comment construire une montagne
Mont Reel – the Book
 
Talk
On the network: Plenty of room for “X”
On the network: Plenty of room for “X”
Workshop on Learning (what, how, where, who, with whom)
 
Blog
See older projects on our previous site
See older projects on our previous site
 
Project
Table of Content
Table of Content
An interactive space where visitors can participate in the critical analysis of climate issues through Constructlab’s projects and the future developments of Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken.
 
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Mon(s) Invisible
Mon(s) Invisible
A space for Mon(s) Idéal!
 
Publication
Construir Junto
Fanzine made during the international building workshop 'construir juntos' in the ASA factory, Guimaraes, Portugal.
 
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The Jammin’ Kiosk
The Jammin’ Kiosk
 
Blog
Who Are We? #7 eco-feminism and the forest
Who Are We? #7 eco-feminism and the forest
 
Publication
Supibasiilika Recipe Book
Supibasiilika Recipe Book
Supibasiilika Recipe Book
 
Event
Baufestival Weisswasser
Baufestival Weisswasser
Raus aus der Bude, Abenteuer Innenstadt!
 
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Unlearning Centre
Unlearning Centre
A meeting place for collaborative & open learning
 
Blog
Lernraum
Lernraum
Research on the learning space
 
Project
Das wachsende Haus
Das wachsende Haus
Das wachsende Haus
 
Event
Workshop: Climate Activating
Workshop: Climate Activating
'On the network' symposium
 
Blog
The W.o.W. on tour with a new sibling
The W.o.W. bicycle trailer as a critical stance on the use of cars in the city.
 
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Mercato dei frutti minori
Mercato dei frutti minori
Communal construction of a roof and market furniture.
 
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Caillasses
Caillasses
A learning experience about the collective intelligence of the territory.
 
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Künstlerforum Worpswede
Künstlerforum Worpswede
Building a “support structure” for an arists residency.
 
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Mitmachding for Lausitz
Mitmachding for Lausitz
Empowering Lausitz through community engagement with a small foldable pavilion
 
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LABORATORRE
LABORATORRE
Workshop and artists in residence
 
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Library Space University of Ghent
Library Space University of Ghent
Together exploring the future use of library spaces for the psychology department of University Ghent