Cantiere Aperto: a collective practice
Hypereden + Frantoio Sociale
Cities Ahead – Paseo del Espolón –Concéntrico 09
A collective practice with local organisations that promotes the construction of urban artefacts by demolishing and transforming waste materials. It encourages collaborative activity and gives local communities the opportunity to act on public space, expressing their needs and dreams.
In Logroño it is carried out with the active participation, both in the design and construction phases, of a community of young skateboarders on the Paseo del Espolón, an urban space in the centre where the practice of skating and the collective experience of public space has been consolidated. The aim is, precisely during the days of the festival, to design and build a series of elements that, combined, will form a playful environment that expands the actions of the skater activity that already takes place in the square.
Frantoio Sociale + Hypereden
Frantoio Sociale is a research project that aims to explore the theme of the transformation of matter on a cultural and social level, proposing a development model that takes inspiration from the agricultural world: horizontal, open and convivial places such as oil mills, social cellars , cooperative systems, structurally and ideologically opposed to “mass” production and disposal systems. A necessary and central tool of the project is a transportable crushing machine, which allows inert materials to be transformed into new raw materials for infinite uses.
Hypereden is a collective of architects and designers, born in 2011, which investigates the physical and cultural identities of places, their enhancement and their sustainable transformation over time. It operates with the tools of art, of design and of architecture in the field of planning: urban, landscape, architectural and interiors. Since 2016 it has constituted a cultural association with the aim of encouraging active transformation practices of collective spaces, and collaborates with third sector realities regarding space temporary and long-term transformation processes. As an association Hypereden works to subvert what usually happens in the practice and to modify the physical space with the involvement of those who live it, using the tool of self construction as a vehicle for dialogue, relationship and belonging: it invites the construction of a new form of coexistence, care and conservation, production and making through participation.
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