Spaces of Generosity: A room for Stillness and Silence

The project investigates the possibilities for a way of working that connects a focus on qualitative and atmospheric qualities of space with a focus the way we inhabit and perform within these spaces. The first is often thought of as an individual experience, the second as a socially constructed one. To bridge this divide the project...

Effects of Noise on Cooperation in Harsh Environments

Interactions in the real world are subject to mistakes and miscommunications. The presence of this noise in interactions challenges cooperation, as one party cannot determine whether the other party did not cooperate on purpose. The Prisoner's Dilemma has commonly been used to study mutual cooperation. Strategies like Tit for Tat that do well in...

Staging the Abandoned: Open-air Theater Revitalization of Kale Fortress, Skopje

The project site situates at Kale Fortress, a historic archaeological site at the highest point overlooking the city of Skopje. Despite its rich cultural value and prestige location, the site has been abandoned for years since the inter-ethnic conflict between the Macedonians and Albanians in 2011 over the construction on a church-shaped museum....

Encouraging generosity: Turning everyday products into pro-social helping tools

Pro-social helping activities are activities that are intended by the helper to mainly benefit the receiver. Research from WeHelpen showed that offering passive help through asking “if there is anything I can do, please let me know” does not often result in the helping behavior. Asking for help is difficult because it does not fit in the idea of...

Open Form: The individual within the collective

In search of a more open architecture.