Territory

ASOC’s territory extends beyond political borders, reaching into rural areas that share common challenges and opportunities. What connects a textile factory in the Royans-Vercors region of France, a nunnery in Belmonte, Italy, and an abandoned school in Morfi Thesprotias, Greece? In these rural environments, ASOC highlights the ingenuity of communities as they create and maintain common infrastructures, share common values and demonstrate resilience. These places become spaces for experimentation and creativity, bridging scales and fostering alternative imaginaries that connect architecture, land, nature, culture, heritage, and local communities.

France

Supporting the rehabilitation of a former fabric factory in Drôme area.

Greece

Thesprotia region in Northern Greece is suffering population shrinkage, and it shows a variety of self-organised initiatives lead by women.

Italy

The Belmondo project aims to bridge cultural divisions between old and new populations, architecture, and customs in Belmonte Calabro.

Activities

Workshops and Events
ASOC’s diverse activities include a variety of formats, such as workshops, encounters, gatherings and conversations shaped for and by its community. These provide open spaces for creation, discussion, exchange, and meaningful collaboration, sharing perspectives and experiences with wider audiences and fostering connections across communities.

Opening a Path (*Abrir un Camino)

2024-10-17
Conversation in action on architectural pedagogy in non-urban environments.

Committed architect : Professions that are asserting themselves

2024-10-10
Roundtable with Nancy Ottaviano, Corinne Langlois, Merril Sineus and Alice De Nardi

Collective design pedagogies

2024-10-04
Roundtable with Federica Fava - Roma Tre, Giulia Fiocca - Stalker and AIM collective

Water-Land-Scapes

2024-10-03
Showcasing the results of the workshops in Morfi, Thesprotia, capturing the atmosphere and spirit of the place.

GRRR Waterlandscapes Vol.2 Summerschool

2024-08-26 2024-09-01
Tracing Myths, Reviving Paths, and Reimagining the Future of Rural Community in Morfi

School, future laboratory of experiments

2024-05-17
Roundtable with students, young professionals, a teacher, and the director of studies from the Clermont-Ferrand School of Architecture

GRRR Waterlandscapes Vol. 1

2024-05-07 2024-05-13
Exploring water as a common, shared & infrastructural resource across various scales and times.

Engaged Architecture: Professions to Invent

2024-03-20
Roundtable with Collectif GRU, SAGA, à côté et FARO on new professions linked to committed architecture

Education

ASOC’s approach to education emphasises critical consciousness, peer-to-peer learning, empowerment and dialogue, promoting learning as a collaborative and constantly evolving process. Students, educators, practitioners, and local communities engage as equal learners and active participants, shaping their own education to become active citizens and transform their surroundings. This section gathers diverse pedagogical outputs, formats and methods from ASOC’s activities.

Feedbacks from an participatory educational experience

One international workshop week of sharings
France

Open Source DIY Infrastructures

Designing and building furniture collaboratively can also be territorial design
Greece

Living ASOC – Greece

Exploring Water as a Vital Resource: Mythology, Ecology, and Community Infrastructure
Greece

The Architecture School of Commons and six itinerant workshops

The article focuses mainly on the rural community context and...
France, Greece, Italy

Sensitive mapping Nr. 2

Local and sustainable food production : discovering the territory through the accounts of its inhabitants
France

Collective kitchen and collected recipes

A booklet with advices and recepees gave by various chefs from France, Italy and Greece
France, Greece, Italy

Rediscovering Kalodiki Lake

A journey through the sensory, linguistic, and ecological transformation of a vanished landscape.
Greece

Sensitive mapping Nr. 1

A culture of reusing : discovering the territory through the accounts of its inhabitants.
France

Radically Optimistic Architectural Pedagogies in Precarious Times

An overview of the big picture of the ASOC programme
France, Greece, Italy

Learning from “outside the walls”

Think about the future of careers and education.
France

« Belmondo’s logbook »

An overview of the activities carried out during the August workshop of 2023.
Italy

For a Certification in Collective Contexts

Professionalizing alternative architectural practices beyond traditional project management
France

Collective practices

Discussion and feedback from students regarding the presentation of the Collectif Etc's practice
France

Opening a New Path

The Revival of the Styx Lagoon to Morfeas Cave Trail
Greece

Grrr Waterlandscapes Handbook

A Guide to Thesprotia’s region
Greece

Fresh Playgrounds

Reviving the schoolyard, where ASOC traces spark play, connection, and new possibilities
Greece

Building processes Nr. 1

Prefiguring uses by building light, reversible and ephemeral prototypes
France

ToC2, to Common, to care.

Empowering Student-Led Transformations: A Student Team Building Commons through Collaborative Design, Ethical Practice a
Italy

Teaching architecture «beyond the walls»

"Situational, experimental, and collaborative-cooperative pedagogies in architecture schools"
France

“Without care buildings collapse”

A collective fanzine issue made on site during a workshop session
France

Living ASOC – Italy

A video overview of life during a week-long workshop
Italy

Building processes Nr. 2

Design a mobile collective kitchen to enhance the conviviality of the site
France

Living ASOC – France

A video overview of life during a week-long workshop
France

Radio Pigadi

Broadcasting Stories from the Depths of the Water Wells in Morfi
Greece

« Seigle, pietre e fibre » 

A temporary exhibition on the use of local materials in the architectural construction of our common spaces.
Italy

Building an infrastructure of care

The role of design in rethinking community practices and collective spaces
Italy

“La Place Tropicale”

An imaginative approach to collaboration and learning among students, professionals, and educators
France, Greece, Italy

Community

The ASOC community is a growing network built on alliances, uniting people and different organisations across diverse contexts and disciplines. It includes the founding partners, as well as students, educators, professionals, and local agents who actively participate in and shape activities, contributing to the ongoing development of ASOC.