South going North. Designing for Communities, from Santiago-de-Chile to Ljubljana

The article considers the architectural project “Common Places: micro interventions in Nove Fužine” by Plan Común and Tiago Torres Campos in Ljubljana as symptomatic of the growing importance of remote architectural practices in a global culture. Initially designed for urban communities in Santiago de Chile, the project was initiated as a response to the Chilean neoliberal policies in the decade 2010-2015. Implemented in Slovenia in 2016, the design process faced an unexpected complexity, due to local realities and the obligation to work remotely. Through an examination of the genesis, the chronology and the different versions of the project, the article discusses opportunities that allowed the project to travel from South to North, the difficulties encountered in such migration and how the architects responded to these difficulties in designing generic objects that partly failed in achieving its objectives of local embedding.

Jaar van publicatie:2021

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