INCREASIS, built resources looking for second (or even first) lifes by Todo x la Praxis

This new platform, which was presented last June 6th in Medialab Prado (Madrid), starts with the aim of generating a catalogue of unused buildings, waiting for new tools or strategies that give use and activity to all built remainders of the housing bubble in Spain.

Centro de Creación de las Artes (Alcorcón, Madrid). Todo x la Praxis archive.

Increases are created as a response to the expansive and uncontrolled urban development that guided Spanish city growth during the last few years. It offers a bunch of tools, practices, and strategies for re-using all built items which are unused, unsold, or unfinished.

One of the strong points of the project is the process of locating and classifying many unused structures and spaces which are now residual, abandoned, or empty, and which represent an opportunity for the development of new initiatives, but most of all, they are the logical sample of an unsustainable model's end.

In addition, case studies of re-occupation and re-use of urban resources are classified as well, with other experiences which are being developed at the moment.

At the same time, an open geolocalization tool is being used to locate all elements, in three categories: Experiences, References, and Resources.

Video teaser of Increasis.

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Cúpula de la Energía (Soria). © Latidos del Olvido. Courtesy of Todo x la Praxis.

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. TODO POR LA PRAXIS

Todo por la praxis is articulated as a laboratory of aesthetic projects of cultural resistance, a laboratory that develops tools with the aim of generating a catalog of socially effective tools with direct action.

The group is formed by a multidisciplinary team that develops part of the work in collaborative construction of micro-architectural or micro-urban devices enabling the reconquest of public space and collective use.

Todo por la praxis is part of an extensive network, Arquitectras Colectivas, which is a network of people and groups interested in the participatory development of the urban environment. The network provides an instrumental space for collaboration in different kinds of projects and initiatives. This network represents an alternative approach to conventional architectural practice, introducing networking, the establishment of a common bank of knowledge and resources and collaborative practices both in the conception and execution of projects.

Active members: Diego Peris, Rafael Turnes, Paul Galan, Joaquin Street, Jon Garbizu, Carlos Hidalgo, David Martí

Collaborators of the collective: Juan Manuel Diez (Manu), Laura Gonzalez, Kasia Dabrowska, Paco Galvez, Fabian Acosta, Javier Blanco, Luis Antonio Martin, Marco Godoy, Luis Diaz, Jaime Mendez, Juan Sebastián Rueda, Orlando Rueda, Magdalini Grigoriadou Massimiliano Casu, Vanessa Viloria.