What became clear during the constructive debate at the Open Studios Event, is that interventions to the different project sites will require a combination of both strategic and architectural thinking. An approach that understands architecture more as an adaptive condition, a kind of hybrid. (the opposite of architecture as an idea of static entity or singular typology).
A key quality observed within Dalston derives from an understanding of space that is shared by a multiplicity of different networks and user-groups which necessitates co-existence and overlap: A kind of porous condition and testing ground enabling various forms of social, cultural and entrepreneurial experimentation. Proposals will need to make provisions to enable this phenomenon to continue.
While the permanent parts of the proposed architectural interventions will establish a new "fixed" and permanent spatial condition, the question is how projects sites can maintain critical opportunities for the informal, experimental and adaptive use at the same time?
Many thanks to all guest critics, especially Heidi Moxon and Moto Auraa Kawakami.
