As part of the urbanize! festival 2023, Alex Römer introduces Constructlab during the international good practice evening ›How to … Urban Commons!‹ in its broadness and journey from a collective to the network it is today. Seen as a laboratory for social processes of togetherness, Constructlab rethinks community in a world of increasing singularization in practices such as the diverse forms of gathering. Constructlab is a transdisciplinary design-build network that brings together architectural concepts and construction. While breaking with traditional divisions of labor, the organization engages a team of designer-builders – as well as sociologists, urban planners, graphic designers, curators, educators, and web developers – who carry the creative process from drawing board to the field. Their shared vision of a collaborative way of working combines the creative with the practical, the thinking with the doing. More of their work can be found in the book CONVIVIAL GROUND: Stories from Collaborative Spatial Practices.
Alex Römer is an architect, designer and carpenter and initiated the international design-built network Constructlab in 2012 as a member of the former EXYZT collective.
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