Studio 3 – Crossing Cultures – Skills Exchange

Our aim as a studio was to rethink architecture in order to address how the responsible use of resources shapes our environments as ‘Skills Exchange’. This year, we have continued to work in the Italian hill-top village Belmonte Calabro, where we have been collaborating with the municipality of Belmonte, local stakeholders, migrants, recent graduates and postgraduate students from Unit 6 since 2016. And we have started to work in London, collaborating with Stepney City Farm on a project to reclaim land occupied by ‘Crossrail’ site works. Students have been provocative in live situations and shared knowledge with local stakeholders in the form of ideas, drawings, models and experiences, and through these, actively shaped local discussions and revealed new opportunities to initiate and empower change.