On Norms and Bodies: How Architecture Can Empower - A Design for the Zelfregiehuis in Rotterdam

This project aims to explore ways of being considerate—as architects—with regards to the sites (and the bodies related to these sites) in which we intervene through our practice. Architecture is often meant as a mediator between bodies and their surroundings, however, actually realising this aspiration is rather difficult. In the research it is...

Response-ability: building together as performative political practice

Politics no longer works like the democratic ideal presumed it did. We need to find other ways of doing politics: not just representational and abstract, but situated and performative. Architecture can help us doing this. This project focuses on the situation of Reyeroord, IJsselmonde, Rotterdam. I propose a building process of three theatre...