Diego Grass of Plan Común was invited to give a lecture at the School of Architecture of the Catholic University in Peru, presenting Plan Común recent works and "Common Places" a collective research about public space typologies. The lecture also included a presentation of the content of the audiovisual archive of architecture projects and interviews, OnArchitecture.
Felipe De Ferrari participated in ‘Crítica y Celebración’, a series of debates initiated by Ernesto Rodríguez at Centro de Estudios Públicos. Entitled ‘Arquitectura y Política’ the event also included presentations by Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, Francisco Díaz and Cristián Izquierdo.
Excerpt from the presentation: “Esto porque en la construcción de nuestras sociedades hay mucho en juego. Lo que hay en disputa es la cultura, el mundo en el que queremos vivir y evidentemente el que queremos transformar o construir como arquitectos –incluso los encargos que queremos recibir-. Lo que hay en disputa es el imaginario y los valores que nos permiten ser felices y realizados colectivamente, el sentido común”.
Felipe de Ferrari of Plan Común, chilean architect and filmaker has been invited to give a lecture at Harvard Latin GSD lab, and will present the reseearch, work and methodology of Plan Comun Architects and its connection with the audiovisual archive OnArchitecture.
Felipe de Ferrari gave a lecture at the MAO in Ljubljana for the Future Architecture Platform's matchmaking conferences - a european program for new architecture ideas - about Plan Común's ongoing research project, Common Places :
Common Places is an series of 50 formal strategies aiming at maximizing public space, led by a team of 50 architects from Europe and abroad. It is a set of architecture projects for our cities, prototypes questioning the validity of established ideological and/or normative models in order to reproduce new and fertile public spaces. This collective authorship project aims at influencing architects and decision makers beyond our field.
OnArchitecture (audiovisual archive of architecture videos and interviews) of Felipe de Ferrari & Diego Grass has been invited to showcase some of their content at Solo Galerie in Paris, in an exhibition open to the public and showcasing works of different architects such has Lina Bo Bardi, Bruther, NP2F, Lacaton & Vassal, Office KGDVS, TNA, SANAA, Atelier Bow-Wow, Cecilia Puga, Andra Matin and Arno Brandlhuber.
Felipe de Ferrari and Diego Grass has responded to an interview made by the online platform urbanNext, a global network to produce content focused on rethinking architecture through the contemporary urban milieu.
In this interview, are discussed various on-going project by Plan Común, such as the current research project on public space called "Common Places", and the relation with On Architecture, the audiovisual archive of architecture founded by Felipe de Ferrari and Diego Grass back in 2012.
Plan Común, among other architects such as Adamo Faiden, Fala Atelier, Go Hasegawa and Grafton architects, to participate in an exhibition in London, which would expose different architects visions –including strategies and projects by Adamo Faiden, Go Hasegawa or Fala Atelier just to name a few- of the notion "Unfeasible".
An abstract from Plan Común's proposal, a continuous infrastructure across Latin-America : "The proposal goes beyond the reparation of an unfair settlement more than 100 years ago: it is a gesture of solidarity between two brotherly countries, a step forward into reuniting Latin American people. This historical debt is not only with Bolivia."
"Think Space" serves as a platform for spatial experimentation and conceptual exchange of ideas. Each cycle lasts a calendar year and is constituted by competitions under the annual theme. At the end of the cycle, a conference, award ceremony and exhibition will be held in Zagreb. The Think Space Programme in 2015 is returning in form of a Special Edition under the topic THINK public SPACE. The focus of this Special Edition will be directed on urban public space in the European context.
Plan Común has been awarded with an honorable mention with the proposal "Reclaim City Space" : our proposal, extracted from the research project "Common Places" is to radically approach 10 generic situations we recognized in Zagreb and abroad, all of which are affected by this ongoing privatization, turning them back in favour of public sphere: urban growth, land use, infrastructure, pedestrian flow, public transport, higene or even our perception of the city, collective memory and the limit between public and private.
The studio "Lugares Comunes : Recoleta-Independencia", an investigation led by architectural office Plan Común at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, was concluded by a presentation including a publication co-edited with Ediciones ARQ :
The research was focused on developing projects in two joint districts in the city of Santiago: Recoleta and Independencia. Both municipalities were selected for their cultural and historical richness, two emblems of a city model in dangerous retreat. Given its privileged position in the metropolitan context, both municipalities begin to succumb to the strong pressure of real estate, an area where these interests have detected a paradoxical growth: by intangible conditions of a cultural nature, such development doesn't exploit the full potential of a sector, through good and numerous infrastructures and connection with the rest of the city. In such context, the General Cemetery appear as a contention toward the expansion of the private city as it can be designed as a center of gravity for both municipalities.
Diego Grass has been invited to participate and debate in the radio program "Citoyens" of the digital radio Diario U Chile, programa de la Universidad de Chile, the oldest and most prestigious of the Chilean Republic
In this interview, Diego Grass answer to the question of the importance and dominance of the public space toward the private sphere, presenting various examples of proposals designed by Plan Común - such as the project of Park and Memorial for chilean modernist architect Fernando Velasco Castillo, at the Tajamar towers in Santiago.
In the context of the studio "Lugares Comunes : Recoleta-Independencia", an investigation led by architectural office Plan Común at UC Architecture School on micro-infrastructure projects around Santiago's General Cemetery, a workshop was organized to think about a network of similar, yet reduced, intervention, within the walls of the Cemetery. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto from Atelier Bow Wow and Takuto Sando from Tsubame Architects were the international guests during the two weeks of intense work. The content of this investigation was included in a publication published by Ediciones ARQ.
Diego Grass of Plan Común was invited to participate at the seminar and workshop "Creative Neighborhoods 2: Urban Informalities for Societies in Transformation" organized by Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture (Y-GSA).
The group of panelists included Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow, Kumiko Inui, Koh Kitayama, Kazuhiro Kojima and chilean architect Rodrigo Pérez de Arce among other colleagues.
On March 2015, Felipe De Ferrari and Diego Grass were invited to present the recent work of Plan Común in a triple conference together with UMWELT (Arturo Scheidegger & Ignacio García Partarrieu) and Cristián Undurraga, held at the School of Architecture of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Diego Grass of Plan Común has invited his relative, Mariano Puga -priest and architect graduated from the UC School of Architecture in Chile- for a conversation around the events that led to the so-called "Quema del Vignola" in 1949, and its consequences in the School of Architecture of the Catholic University.
The burning of Vignola (1949) marked the most controversial moment of the first student strike in the history of all Catholic universities in the world. Students and teachers were able to establish once and for all Modernity as a cornerstone of the teaching institution. Mariano Puga tells the before and after this milestone in the history of architecture in our country.
From October 27th to November 7th, the workshop "Vivienda colectiva : Proyecto en disputa" took place at UC School of Architecture.
Pier Vittorio Aureli (Dogma) was the international guest for the events and the workshop led by Umberto Bonomo and Felipe De Ferrari. The workshop critically analyses two emblematic cases of collective housing built in Santiago in the '60s. Through the specific approach of the architectural project it aims to verify the validity of these sets in the current sociocultural and economic context, to establish strategies to reclaim their urban dimension, their domestic scales and radical collective vocation.
Two public seminars and a conference were also part of the program. As a conclusion of these events, a publication edited by Ediciones ARQ, propose to show Pier Vittorio Aureli and his office Dogma's recent works and research, including interviews made by Felipe de Ferrari and Diego Grass for OnArchitecture.
Diego Grass of Plan Común and chilean architect Rodrigo Perez de Arce participated in an international workshop between UC School of Architecture and the Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture (Y-GSA), held in Japan. The process included lectures by both professors, -on public space projects by Perez de Arce, along with the audiovisual archive OnArchitecture and a selection of architectural works of Plan Común.
By the end of September, professors Koh Kitayama and Kazuhiro Kojima will travel with a group of 9 Japanese students to finish the workshop in Chile, resuming the development of heritage intervention projects at Downtown Santiago.
Felipe de Ferrari of Plan Común gave a lecture at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio (Switzerland) on May 20th. The presentation introduced the joint production of audiovisual archive 0300TV (OnArchitecture), and Plan Común, and was part of the cycle ‘Il proceso creativo’ (The creative process) organized by the students association of Mendrisio (OSA).
Felipe de Ferrari of Plan Común has been invited to participate at this years’ São Paulo Architecture Biennale curated by Guilherme Wisnik, Ligia Nobre e Ana Luiza Nobre. Our presentation include a video entitled "Cities and Public Space" produced by the audiovisual archive OnArchitecture (Felipe de Ferrari & Diego Grass), projects and a workshop led by Plan Común on their ongoing research project on public space "Common Places".