Workshops

A central series of three collectively run construction exercises form the backbone of the project. They are run as full-scale design-and-build workshops (reuse of materials, components, structures) with students and teachers from all partnering universities held in diverse cultural contexts. Embedded in an already initiated reuse culture, the first workshop in Amsterdam in March 2023 explored the design and making practice based on and bound by available components. The second workshop in September 2023 in Trondheim takes place in a rural setting and looks into the harvesting of building components from vacant buildings and their possible reusability. In a much more urban scenario in Volos, Greece, in April 2024, a third workshop will study the continued construction and reuse of buildings as a genuine notion of circularity in Southern Europe.