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Curation and design of the exhibition on international architecture collectives

Communication and mediation are the main keys to architectural activity which, in just a few decades, has gone from being a consumption product to becoming a public action and a social construction device. Consequently, in this scenario, the role of architects has more to do with interdisciplinary teamwork and association than with authorship.

It is within this framework that CO. is presented, an exhibition of fifteen national and international working groups, self-described as collectives, whose common factor is mediation as an architectural practice. These are free professionals from different disciplines who, motivated by economic, social and/or academic crises, form collaborative teams that seek to innovate the forms of architectural production from a common identity.

This selection of groups, created between 2001 and 2015, apply collaborative methodologies at different scales working, among other issues, with citizen participation, interdisciplinarity, or (self)organization in horizontal hierarchies. They rely on alternative work platforms where networks -physical and digital- are key to develop their projects, real or invented, cooperating with other citizen, technical and institutional agents.

From the creation of video art to the construction of communal houses, the work of these collectives oscillates between the constructed, the ephemeral, the artistic, and the technological. Without predefined commissions, the importance of their works is not so much a formal result as the richness and complexity of the process.

The fifteen invited collectives represent a diversity of practices and projects that are organized and related in a space and time represented in a forest of props through different mediaActions that define the First International Congress on Architectural Communication (COCA'17), a project carried out within the Master in Architectural Communication (MaCA).

Built work

Selected BID Student Showcase 2017

Realización catalogada. Arquia/Próxima VI Edition 2016-2017

Credits

Location Zuazo Venue, Madrid, Spain

Year 2017

Built area 455m2

Client Ministry of Development of Spain

Architecture Alejandro Sánchez, Andrés Román, Angelique Trachana, Begoña Torres, Carol Linares, Cristian Guano, David Jiménez, Despoina Valiadi, Georgiana Serbanoiu, Gonzalo Barahona, Gonzalo Pardo, Jaime San Simón, Jesús Pedraz, Kiara Firpi, María José Vela, Marjorie Casado, Rubén López. Máster Universitario en Comunicación Arquitectónica (MaCA)

Audiovisuals Dayfisa s.a / Infortel

Printing Diagonal80 s.l

Carpentry Finsa (Financiera Maderera s.a)

Struts Ischebeck Ibérica s.l

Carpet PERGO

Stationery Sancer (sanz y cervel, s.l)

Catering La Paella de Papel (María Navascués)

Photography Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero)

Published in

Fundación Arquia (2017) Exposición sobre las mediaciones en colectivos internacionales de arquitectura en las Arquerías de los Nuevos Ministerios

Plataforma Arquitectura (2017) CO. Exhibition en Madrid

BMIAA (2017) “CO.” architectural communication congress exhibition in Madrid