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Lecture Series | COMMON(S) with LaCol

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Wed, Apr 28, 2027

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Lacol is a non-profit architects' cooperative founded in 2014 in the Sants neighborhood of Barcelona. It works to create community infrastructure that fosters more sustainable living, using architecture, cooperativism, and participatory processes as tools for an eco-social transition. Organized through a horizontal working structure, the firm’s practice integrates architecture, housing policy, energy transition, and construction management, blurring disciplinary boundaries to develop a cross-cutting, participatory approach. Born from a desire to combine architectural practice with political reflection and commitment, Lacol views architecture as an agent of social transformation and develops projects that act as catalysts for change in their immediate surroundings. Its commitment to inter-cooperation has led to joint initiatives with other cooperatives—such as La Dinamo Fundació and BATEC (Cooperative Hub for Energy Transition)—thereby expanding its impact. The firm’s work has garnered both national and international recognition, including the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award in the Emerging Architecture category (2022) and participation in the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, How Will We Live Together? (2021).

COMMON(S) takes as its starting point what is held in common: space, resources, systems, futures. Architecture, design andfashion have long celebrated the singular author and the exceptional object. This series asks what happens when we shift the frametoward the collective, the ordinary, and the mutual. How do our disciplines operate within shared social, ecological, digital andpolitical systems? And what does it mean to design not for, but with? COMMON(S) opens a space to think about collective agencyand shared futures.

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