

Flattened screens have slowly become supplanted, subverted and modified by immersive video calls, AR and VR Hangouts. ‘_Spaces’ is not a digital hangout space but rather a digital city to inhabit and explore – standing as a testament to the importance of digital spatiality today. Architects are often beholden to clients and planning regulators or shackled by confined budgets. However, new concepts of decentralisation and virtual spatiality have enabled the architect to design without constraint, without budget… in a world without gravity or building code.

Smart contracts enable architects the opportunity to create non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on blockchains and directly distribute digital architectural space without the consent and approval of governmental legislation.

‘_Spaces’, is a decentralised city – a 1 of 1 unique Non-Fungible Token – which speculates on the future of Architecture.

Tune into our conversation with Iheartblob 

Find out more on Tales from _Spaces on their a more environmentally friendly blockchain 

Matteo Costanzo & Luca Galofaro / Campo

 is a Ph.D. architect (IUAV Venezia) and the director of the architectural design and research studio OCHAP | Office for Cohabitation Processes. OCHAP focuses on the built environment and the relationships between natural and artificial systems, investigating architecture’s role, limits, and potential to explore possible cohabitation typologies and strategies at multiple scales. He has been a founding partner of 2A+P and 2A+P Architettura. His projects have been awarded in international competitions and shown in several exhibitions, such as the International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. His projects and texts appear in magazines like Domus, Abitare, Volume, and AD Architectural Design.

Valerio Franzone x KoozArch

Dissident Dialogues: comparing notes with CAMPO and Citygroup

Stranger than Fiction: Welcome to the Smooth City 

 works as a critic, curator and organizer in and beyond the fields of architecture, design, heritage and the arts. He is a founding partner of Loom - practice for cultural transformation, part of the transnational platform Failed Architecture and affiliated with various urban social movements as well as art, architecture and design schools. 

René Boer

 is a PhD candidate in Cultural and Landscape Heritage at the University of Bolzano. Her research focuses on the dynamics of human and more-than-human relationships, approached through a visual, critical lens. She holds a Master’s in Eco-Social Design from the Free University of Bolzano (Italy). 

Beatrice Citterio 

Federica Zambeletti is an architect, researcher and digital curator. Her interests lie at the intersection of architecture, cultural production and sustainability. Federica is the founder and creative director of KoozArch which she founded as a student at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (UK).

Federica Zambeletti x KoozArch

Precious and Precarious: Beatrice Citterio on Olympic impacts in Italy

is an interdisciplinary researcher and postdoc at TU Dresden. She researches environmental speculation and emerging material and territorial configurations amid planetary urbanization and the climate crisis.

Michaela Büsse

Asia’s Reconfigured Ecologies: Michaela Büsse and Solveig Qu Suess 

 is a recent graduate from the Urbanism & Societal Change master’s programme at the Royal Danish Academy. Laura has previously studied at Riga Technical University and has worked across different scales in Riga, Amsterdam, finally joining Gehl architects in Copenhagen.

Laura Polkmane

Hyperscale Hunger: Data Physicality in Denmark

is an artist basd in Berlin. His practice uses expanded media to consider the place of bodies within institutional physicality, and cultural and political narratives. He is the co-founder and former director of experimental project space Koraï, Cyprus. 

Theodoulos Polyviou 

Defiant Deities: Theodoulos Polyviou’s Palace in Exile

Members of the Liminal community & its institutional partners

Country Life: Liminal opportunities to build rural innovation

 is an architect, researcher, and visiting professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York. She specialises in the relationships between architecture and digital infrastructures and resources such as lithium that sustain them. In 2022, she received the Harvard Wheelwright Prize. She studied at TU Delft and ETSA Madrid and Columbia GSAPP. In 2016, she received her Ph.D. from ETSA Madrid.

Marina Otero Verzier

Cosmos, Computers and Quipus: An interview with Marina Otero and Locument 

_Spaces

Iheartblob is an architectural design studio and research collective based in London (UK) founded by Aleksandra Belitskaja, Ben James and Shaun McCallum. The studio has a strong focus on the Architectural Object, yet, draws on core tenets from an array of philosophical and theoretical principles whilst exploring new models of architectural thinking and constructing.