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A life question: our productive process
1. Diary of common lives

For the book of , together with many other contemporary collectives, we were called to produce 5 images with text on the way we live, work and practice architecture.

A short extract from our contribution for the book Collective Processes. Counterpractices in European Architecture, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2021.

The diary is the first form of intellectual production in our lives. A diary collects daily events, affective memories, words, sketches, tears and smileys poetically given form in a book of white sheets. It accumulates wishes, knowledge and imagination. Writers or not, poets or not, talented interpreters of plays or not, having to write a diary or not, everyone does collect all those thoughts somewhere. Once within labor market, as adult-students and workers, what we discover is a multitude of common diaries: us. Same books, same authors, same architects, same teachers, same stories of lives, same city, but born in different ones, different references, different individualities, individual visions, same material problematics, same employers, same mentors, same places in life, such as libraries and universities where all this process took place. What we do is putting in common these knowledges, experiences and wishes.

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You don’t have to live like a Referee. Refuge in the Collective.

We took part in the conference series The Great Strength of the Collective! organized by The University of Bamberg (https://leibniz-irs.de/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/09/the-great-strength-of-the-collective). We questioned the historical formation of the architectural office and proposed a critique of the mechanism of extraction of the intellectual, relational, and physical value that characterize this form of enterprise. For us, only the Collective could represent a possible alternative of organization – especially outside the office space – spread throughout the city and able to transform labor into a form of pleasure.

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