UOU scientific journal. Issue #01 / COMMONS (June 2021)
Director: Javier Sánchez Merina | Editor in chief: Maria Luna Nobile

Table of contents

UNIVERSITY of Universities [UOU]: Redefining the basis of International Teaching of Architecture — Sánchez Merina, Francisco Javier


Editorial

An Introduction: the Need of a Space for Experimentation — Nobile, Maria Luna

A manifesto: Circus Island — Alvado Bañón, Joaquín

Conversation on a common manifesto — Alvado Bañón, Joaquín; Hadjisoteriou, Maria; Devereux, Mike


Interpretations

From Commons to Urban Commons. Complexity and Contradiction in the Translation of a Concept — Caneschi, Francesco


Prototypes

Rhodo Workhome: Rethinking the post-pandemic Residence. A Symbiosis of Living and Creating Organic Materials — Roels, Marie

Portable Ecologies. Dialogue with the Architecture from the Anthropocene — Marcos Torró, María José

Coccapani Planetary Garden. A transgenerational, common, possible learning space — Sigillo, Bruna


Experiments

Conventional Complacency in British Housing. The Explanations Behind Britain’s Community Self-Build Absence in Comparison to the Netherlands — Davies, Emma


Interferences

Low-Tech – Freedom, Creativity & Love. Translating Erich Fromm’s Psychoanalysis into Analyses of Architecture — Kołakowski, Marcin Mateusz

The virus is up and the system is down. A Peruvian case for cosmopolitics in urban studies — Chichizola, Bruno Enrico


Agencies

H2OS, anti-desertification eco-village in Senegal. An open-source, autonomous and sustainable prototype — TAMassociati


Atlas

Commons. An ATLAS of possibilities — Nobile, Maria Luna; Kraft, Marie


Overseas

Examining the Role of Nature in the New Commons. Two Experimental Architectural Design Studios — Özaslan, Nuray; Kolsal, Fatma; Balkan, Sevgin Aysu

Re-thinking Poplar District. A new perspective for Robin Hood Gardens — Fatigato, Orfina F.; Saitto, Viviana; Di Giulio, Vittoria; Finale, Gennaro; Galterisi, Mario