From September 21 to 26, 2009 we will attend-participate (it will be difficult to differentiate the two actions) in the second meeting of collective architectures organized by the friends of
Recetas Urbanas
and
Straddle3
with the collaboration of
Pista Digital
and
Nautarquia
. The meeting, which they have titled
collective architectures _v 0.2 : paraderos + conectores
forms “a fundamental part of a process that is extended in time and that involves various agents“; indeed, it can be said, as they explain on the meeting’s website “that this process began on March 1, 2007, when Recetas Urbanas drafted and sent a mailing offering different groups and associations the possibility of transferring one or two prefabricated houses, in the form of three container modules, as a residential headquarters and work center”. The conferences will be held simultaneously in Sant Pere de Torelló and Seville, and connections with Vigo, Madrid, Asunción, Montevideo, Figueres and Mexico DF.
Those modules that the Recetas Urbanas email spoke of are the ones that went around so much before forming, for a few days, what was to be the headquarters of the
Asociación EspaiDer3*
. They are the same modules that the head of studies of the
The unexpected twist in that story is that the headquarters of the Nautarquia project, in Sant Pere de Torelló, which will be the main headquarters of the conference, is built on the basis of those same modules – not the same type of modules, but with the same modules – that were rescued from the warehouse where they had previously been deposited by the municipal police of Esplugues de Llobregat. This is a part of the story that we had never talked about here, and we have an interview pending with the people of Nautarquia, whose experience is really interesting.
But returning to what concerns us, this meeting had a first edition in 2007 in Córdoba, when Santigo Cirugeda found in the festival
Eutopía 07
the framework to bring together several groups that were using architecture as an excuse to propose protocols for collective management of public space, culture, the city or, as in our case, also education.
The next meeting aims to discuss and debate “the common interests, the strategic and tactical coincidences, the similarity of operating procedures, the complementarity, the mutualism, the cooperation tools, the limits, the permeability, the interfaces, the synergies, etc” that occur and can occur between the different nodes of the informal network that we, the participating groups, make up. During the conference there will be presentation talks, meetings in assembly format and theoretical and practical workshops by working groups, which will be held in Sant Pere de Torelló and Seville, with web connections with the rest of the nodes, as well as visits to Girona, Figueres and Arbúcies.
But the best thing will be to take a look at the meeting’s page, which Straddle3 has set up on its website, and when the time comes, at the extensive documentation that will surely come out of these conferences.
