aaa / Urban Tactics
atelier d'architecture autogérée
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atelier d'architecture autogérée / studio for self-managed architecture (aaa) is a collective practice which conducts explorations and projects related to cultural, social and political mutations in contemporary city. Paralelly aaa develops Urban Tactics, an informal platform for alternative research and action.
aaa encourages the participation of inhabitants at the self-management of disused urban spaces, overpassing contradictions and stereotypes by proposing nomad and reversible projects, initiating interstitial practices which explore the potential of contemporary city ( in terms of population, mobility, temporality).
It is by micro-political acting that we want to participate in making the city more ecological and more democratic, to make the space of proximity less dependent on top-down processes and more accessible to its users. The ‘self-managed architecture’ is an architecture of relationships, processes and agencies of persons, desires, skills and know-hows. Such an architecture does not correspond to a liberal practice but asks for new forms of association and collaboration, based on exchange and reciprocity and involving all those interested (individuals, organisations, institutions), whatever is their scale.
Our architecture is at the same time political and poetic as it aims above all to ‘create relationships between worlds’.
aaa has been created in 2001 as an inter- and extra-disciplinary network which include a multiplicity of viewpoints : architects, artists, students, researchers, retired, politicians, unemployed, activists, inhabitants and all concerned users.
Our projects are embedded in their local contexts, reactivate everyday practices and initiate translocal platforms for cultural production. They are based on long term processes which enable claimings of urban space from very diverse social and cultural positions and collective and democratic transformations.
