GENERAL INFORMATION

Adaptive Actions explores alterations in the workplace, the home and public spaces in general. Identifying the variety of these personal and found alterations in the city as different forms of adaptation creates a vocabulary for the expression of the collective imagination, through the existing urban structures therein.

These 'actions' modify and activate the intended use of architecture and enhance the character of urban environments. They create positive tensions that test the limits of tolerated appropriation.
Can these simple actions, images and ideas, such as the hybridisation of conventional and unusual urban realities, infiltrate our collective imagination to promote feelings of identity and a sense of cultural belonging?

Adaptive Actions points to how urban phenomena impact on residents' perception of the environment and their relation to it. By offering a space to share experiences, ideas, forms of actions and specific accomplishments, Adaptive Actions creates an inventory of alterations rarely visible to the public. Printed documents and organised events are being planned to increase visibility of the selected actions to the public eye.

Français

Actions/relations remet en question les espaces organisés ainsi que les mouvements qu'on y impose – et procède par appel de contribution ouvert à tous. Actions/relations explore les modifications apportées au milieu de travail, aux résidences et aux espaces publics en général. Identifier la variété de modifications personnelles découvertes dans la ville à titre de formes diverses d'adaptation crée un langage pour exprimer l'imaginaire collectif par le truchement des structures urbaines qui y existent.

CONTACT

info@adaptiveactions.net

NEWS + VIEW ARCHIVE

OPEN CALL
Adaptive Actions challenges organized space as well as the movements it imposes and is based on a call for collaboration open to all.
This website was first created in the UK and is currently in English. Titles, texts and comments in any other language are welcome.


All Aboard
Ongoing adaptive action:
London 2012 Olympic site



For more info:
All Aboard

24/06/2008

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS + VIEW ARCHIVE

02/05/2009

Open House: Friday 22 Feb 1pm - 6pm
for submissions of Adaptive actions (completed or projected), discussion and exchange of ideas + documentation, prints, salon, food, drinks....

Workshop: Saturday 23 Feb
Olympic Perimeter Walk and Conversation:
session exploring singular ways of thinking and activating disused, divided and controlled areas. Thoughts, ideas and proposed actions will be illustrated to produce a series of posters to be printed and also made available on the Web.
1-2pm - Preparatory introduction
2-5pm - This walk will focus on the Olympic perimeter adjacent to Pudding Mill Lane Station and surrounding area. 5-8pm - Drinks and supper at the Canadian residence

All events are held at SPACE in East London and are free. Booking is essential and can be done by emailing: events@spacestudios.org.uk
or call 07 964 424 806

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS + VIEW ARCHIVE

PRESENTATIONS
Adaptive Actions

To come:
27th August
EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists)
Conference 2008 Experiencing diversity and mutuality
Looking, seeing and being seen: connecting and controlling through visual representation

By Judith Laister, University of Graz, Institute of European Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
www.nomadit.co.uk/easa


Adaptive Actions was also recently presented at :

Alternate Currents symposuim – Sheffield University School of Architecture (UK)
26/27 November 2007
Alternate Currents

LEGACY NOW 03 : cultural legacy and the Olympic Parc
(1 Feb.2008), at SPACE (London)
LEGACY NOW

Shifting studios - Future Studios series –
(27 Feb.2008) at Whitechapel Gallery (London)
Future Studios


PUBLICATIONS

Field journal for architecture, article soon to be published - Summer 2008:Field

Adaptive Actions publication: launch and presentation Autumn 2008, commissioned text and a compilation of adaptive actions.

28/07/2008