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díazmoreno  garcíagrinda is the studio of Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda (amid.cero9) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

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In such a global catastrophe and critical condition, we do believe, more than ever, that contemporary urban challenges related with the radical effects of migratory fluxes, global pandemics, structural urban deficits, the digital shift, environmental racism, precarious inhabitation conditions and spatial exclusion are demanding a change of paradigm on architectural thinking and design practices, that could break the separation of our discipline and connect us back with societal problems and realities. We see this moment as a fantastical opportunity for reinvention and we would like to expand the already astonishing legacy of the Studio 1 and to contribute to shape the future of the IoA through intellectual and practical experiments on spatial and material practices in the search of socially and culturally engaged fields of work for architecture.

The work of the academic year 2019-2020 has been centered in the extreme conditions of the European Slums, and particularly in the settlement in Pata Rât in Cluj-Napoca, where the students have investigated the possibility for architectural designs to be centered in reassembling the social and improving the precarious conditions of the site, located in the vicinity of a landfill and product of social exclusion and racism, with the conviction than architecture can still play a role on such socially and environmentally polluted situation.

It
is
urgent
to
understand
polluted
environments
and
its
relationship
to
social
struggles
and
disputes.
Architecture
of
softness
and
care.
Looking
back
at
the
overlooked.
Space
emerges
from
new
spatio-temporal
relationships
between
water
and
body.
Water
bodies,
soil
bodies,
light
bodies
Comfort
as
a
spatial
notion
that
refers
to
a
culturally
constructed
environment
based
on
the
understanding
of
pleasure
Methane
pickers:
Gas
harvesting
and
cultivation
devices
as
identitarian
artifacts.
The
landfill
is
a
weird
garden
of
multiple
species
Space
of
oscillation
between
temporary
permanence
and
permanent
temporariness
Relocate
the
relocated:
architecture
as
a
celebratory
journey
Pata
Rât
case
is
an
extreme
case
of
environmental
racism
and
institutional
terrorism
against
individual
and
collective
rights.
Hijacking
regulations
and
the
property
system
to
reinvent
spatial
ownership.
Ladies
club:
a
second
communal
home
for
Roma
women
Making
livable
Pata
Rât
is
a
political
statement
about
the
neglected
community
Connecting
and
working
intensely
with
reality
and
facts
is
one
of
main
goals
for
the
Studio

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Oliver Rene Alunović, Summer Semester—Strada Curata

Ana Maria Chiriac, Summer Semester—Hygene Regimen

Mira Al-Suradi, Summer Semester—Cultural Factory

Zishen Liu, Summer Semester—Embracing Toxicity

Georgios Albanis and Zishen Liu, Summer Semester—Embracing Toxicity

Merve Şahin, Summer Semester—To Bloom To Glow To March

Merve Şahin, Summer Semester—To Bloom To Glow To March

Merve Şahin, Summer Semester—To Bloom To Glow To March

Merve Şahin, Summer Semester—To Bloom To Glow To March

Iga Mazur, Summer Semester—Palace Under Maintenance

Iga Mazur, Summer Semester—Palace Under Maintenance

Iga Mazur, Summer Semester—Palace Under Maintenance

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