Of.By.For - São Paulo's XII Biennale by Metaamo & Unlisted Experiential

ARCHITECTURE of.by.for PEOPLE

Everyday, the curatorial proposal for the XII IABsp, shifts our focus from high-profile architecture to a world where most people don’t have the money, resources and power to control their physical surroundings. A world where everyday people use behavioral ingenuity to shape their experience of the built environment.

Architecture of.by.for People is an installation/game designed to give anyone the opportunity to tap into their inner architect. We’ve all met this inner architect. It’s the architect in a child that turns a yard into a fully designed imaginary world, in the person who moves his/her body into position for a perfect view of the sunset, in the skateboarder who turns mundane surfaces into a skate park, and the person who whispers or walks softly in order to control the acoustics of a space.

of.by.for is designed to give people control over architecture through action and play. Three toolkits distill architecture into themed “action books” dealing with Form, Materials and Function, each with its own instruction manual for behaviors that create architectural experiences. A collection of “Architecture hacks” that will live and grow after the XII IABsp in the form of a social media platform where everyday people post everyday stories about resource-free everyday architecture.