Inspired by the David Harvey text about Rebel Cities, we explore how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways. Instead of profit-focused urban reformations when the city is treated as a form of commodity, we aim to enrich social sustainability and the citizen’s rights to the city by providing custom made solutions as an answer to daily needs and desires.

Public space for us promotes the assets of Ancient Greek Agora as a site of exchange, of sharing community events, that gives room to heterogeneous voices to be heard and emerges democracy. Architecture at this point is the tool to empower citizens. Thus, we create opportunities and initiate changes, and to do so, we collaborate with communities, municipalities, and institutions.

Some examples of work are the revitalization of an abandoned park together with the villagers of N.Petritsi/Greece and the speleological shelter in Kapnofyto/Greece in order to help the local volunteer speleological association to protect the newly discovered caves in the area.

Our methodology is a bottom-up approach to placemaking through public participation. We work towards handmade urbanism that is carried out by a transdisciplinary enaction, through artistic experimental research, public events, and construction workshops. We support green economies with timber construction and additionally we use recycled, reused, and low emission materials. Important aspects of our work are the social- and environmental sustainability, site and situation-specific proposals, and prototype full-scale installations in the physical environment.

We act in a dialogue with the things and in a tempo that allows feedback from the users in the process of making.

In doing so, we act upon situational correspondence, care, and responsibility.