Architectural intervention
Constructlab

September 2019 to January 2020
2019 Chicago Architectural Biennial
Chicago Cultural Center | Chicago, USA

For the Chicago Architecture Biennial we put forward fragments to compose and dispose, to use independently or to combine together, all at once or one with another. Constituted of a spatial intervention: a reconfigurable agora to meet people’s needs realized through collaborative energy; ideas and contents: the gallery is transformed in a public square which walls displays the statements proposed by the other guests of the Biennial; available instruments for anybody to use: a table, a printing machine, a coffee machine and office material;  a publication: How Together, an anti-manual gathering constructlab narratives in diverse situations of collaborative practices.

The space is activated by its users. Any group or person can organise or attend a gathering. To use the space, the public is invited to simply use an empty Post-it to announce an event or join a gathering that has previously been announced. Within the space anybody is invited to respond to the content on the walls. The Post-its can be used to add comments, make new propositions or come up with alternative spatial strategies.

Most of the materials used in this intervention have been used in past Chicago Architectural Biennials. Other materials are in the process of being pre-cycled: they have been rented, borrowed or bought with the intend to be returned and reused. 

-> Project website 

Constructlab team:
Joanne Pouzenc
Carla Rangel
Alexander Römer
Patrick Hubmann
Gabriel Lacombe
Peter Zuiderwijk

Collaborators:
Southwest Signs Inc

Commissioned by:
The Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019,
... and other such stories
Curated by Yesomi Umolu, Sepake Angiama and Paulo Tavares.