During Workshop 1 in France, we projected a short film about the Collectif Etc. By talking about living and working, we were able to discuss with the students the collective practices associated with architectural collectives. For several years now, students have been asking questions about the practices of collectives, which are both very present in their discourses and desires, but also very little known. This has generated much debate about the cool wave of collectives in the 2015’s, their real impact on the world of architecture and urbanism, their political commitments and values, their similarity to more conventional architectural practices, and sometimes the social or greenwashing that these practices fuel.
So we were able to talk to the students about the practice of Collectif Etc and, by extension, others. It’s a challenge for us to show that there are other ways of practicing architecture, that the work doesn’t have to be the traditional agency, that you can also invent your own activity or join movements that take side roads…
Here the recording of the students feedbacks (FR version)
