Studio Six continues to explore the notion of interdependence.
(www.interdependenceday.co.uk)
The work of the studio is linked to the Interdependence Day project launched in 2006 to reinvigorate sustainability debates and to question some of the technocratic outcomes of seeing ecological and economic concerns as an accounting or ‘problem solving’ challenge.
What can architecture contribute to this attempt to reconsider global, economic and environmental issues?
Interdependent understanding invites an architecture rooted in creativity and metaphor, which ‘listens’ to the potential of a city rather than imposing mark marketable criteria of enterprise, lifestyle or efficiency.
An interdependent understanding is based on conversations between the city and its varied inhabitants, and in an awareness of its social, economic and ecological metabolism.
The studio will question and seek out possible spaces for deliberation in the city. The interdependencies of a place may be understood as a particularly dynamic and complex constellation of social, economic and emotional relations, but the term also has ambitions for a sense of a place that is extroverted and unexpected.
Interdependence includes a consciousness of links with the wider world integrating in a positive way the near and far, the local and the global, the human and the ecological.
The studio will instigate alternative modes of architectural collaboration, representation, and communication that are more open rather than specialised or expert. We will be exploring an architecture of ‘making-do’ and of ‘provisional construction’.
The studio is exploring the ’steel cities’ of Nowa Huta Poland and Sheffield UK. But we are also thinking about other cities, about state responsibility, about carnival, about pigeons…
