Architect Marcella Del Signore
ArchitectMotionScape
FINALIST of Open Source Biennale
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Open Source Biennale
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MotionScape
Team
Name: Marcella Del Signore
Instagram: @xtopia.architecture
Nationality: Italian
Institution / Company: X-Topia
Name: Tatiana Teixeira
Nationality: Brazilian
Institution / Company: X-Topia
Name: Suzana Bentes
Nationality: Brazilian American
Institution / Company: X-Topia
Name: Marcelo Chaves
Nationality: Brazilian
Institution / Company: X-Topia
Open-source urbanism leverages the collaborative power of communities to provide agile solutions to address urban challenges through bottom-up strategies. By tapping into the users’ agency, open-source urbanism fosters a participatory approach to urban development. Within this framework, MotionScape is a small-scale networked system designed to drive large-scale urban transformation. Acting as an urban machine, it extends across spaces and integrates various public uses into a cohesive spatial construction. It serves as an interactive playground, fostering community engagement through both physical and digital layers. Furthermore, it has the power to be a “place-maker” by empowering communities to reclaim and repurpose urban spaces through direct agencies. By utilising open-source strategies, MotionScape reshapes the public realm with a combinatory system of three main units that aggregate into adaptable spaces, empowering users to transform the public realm in real time based on their needs. This project introduces urban transformative typologies within a unique open-source space. Adopting a bottom-up strategy, it uses design as a testing ground for user participation, addressing long-term integration through dynamic urban notations. This hacker mindset empowers citizens to reclaim their city and directly shape their environment, often without relying on experts or designers (Quirk, 2020).
Jury Comments
– [Hamidreza Khademi] Ambitious concept for urban transformation. The modular, adaptable design is promising. The main challenges lie in creating a system that’s truly user-friendly and robust enough for public use.
– [Olli Andrew] its ok but in the end it’s a bench, its nicely designed but lacks the big vision for venice.
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