APRDELESP on space and its appropriation

A talk by the Mexico based office APRDELESP, a 'practice-as-research' who will talk about space and its appropriation

The typology of a traditional architecture practice takes form in private-facing infrastructure investments, like office space, privileged over public-facing infrastructure investments, like a website or a karaoke bar. This model is obsolete. Isolation can be useful for a specific moment and under certain conditions, but an architecture practice must be able to open to the public, incorporating social participation into the design process. Documenting and publishing information should be generated through an automatic mechanism that shares design progress in real time; every decision should be available for public scrutiny.

As an architecture practice, APRDELESP invests with equal commitment in the public and private, physical and digital infrastructures of the office. They take the development of these realms and the exploration of the intersections between them as both fundamental to the daily functioning of the office and as a mode of research into the forces of appropriation. APRDELESP believe architecture firms are in a critical position to use their own office and other infrastructures as prototypic sites of spatial research and experimentation.