The film is about the milk that gold and other ore mining companies distribute to employees to protect their health.

The film aims to repurpose 2000 acres of underperforming and marginalized land for shared timber farming to enact a more adequate synergistic relationship (socio-economically and environmentally) between the built space and the fragmented Hudson Valley’s forest. In Hudson Valley, most of the trees are privately owned, growing on land at the fringe of urban development- Wildland Urban Intermix (WUI). Tackling the large-scale U.S. monopoly of engineered-timber products, the project envisions a bottom-up timber economy- a vertically integrated, resilient timber supply chain- as a way to incentivize private landowners to sustainably manage their own forests while directly accessing a shared infrastructure of researching, harvesting, manufacturing, and retail, waste-recycling, and branding for their timber product. By creating shared collaborative infrastructure for local forest and small-timber-business owners and entrepreneurs, new social partnerships and equally-distributed amenities will be created, boosting local economies while preserving the local and regional forest ecologies. By sustaining long-term forest-plant-based economic development through this shared co-op system, Hudson Valley’s scaled-down timber industry will be funneled while a more socially adequate distribution of profits between diverse communities will be achieved. Composed of four entities, the Center for Resilient Forestry, which is clustered with Wood Innovation Facilities, the Certification Centers, the Sawmill and Distribution Center with additional facilities for Recycling and Storage and Renewable Energy Generation, this project provides a lasting infrastructure that promotes a holistic framework for profitable and sustainable timber agroforestry that ensures the wellbeing of both the forest and its inhabitants.

This film is a try to show the environment, city and people from a different point of view. A view, different from the usual one and how excluding it can be if you are a bit different.

This film introduces Zaatari village in North Jordan through a grassroots organisation originally set up by a Syrian refugee. Over time, the education centre run by the organisation has grown into an important space for the village children to thrive in.

The movie is about a packed poor community living in Darnagul. Azerbaijan is oil reach, but most of the profit is gathered under the power of the ruling elite class. Poverty is real in most of the districts and people move to Baku with a hope of a job to cover their basic needs. It leads to over-population and high centralization of the capital city where already around 5 million people (taking into account the whole peninsula) are residing (official statistical numbers are modified/falsified to show less). These kinds of communities living outskirts of Baku are mostly people who migrated to Baku from the other districts or are internally displaced people after the Nagorno-Karabagh/Artsakh war. These Neighborhoods are under very poor conditions and people live in very anti-sanitary conditions. Toilets are usually public where most people use the same toilet in the neighborhood (mostly outside the apartments) and people mostly do cheap labor work to survive. They mostly sell goods or repair things for so cheap and they open a bazaar/market every Sunday to offer their services or sell their goods.

A short film depicting a woman's experience in her apartment's backyard. The film deals with the emotions that the space provokes, memories that emerge, and the limitations of any architecture- even if intentionally inclusive.

Pari Banu is a trans artist with an interdisciplinary and contemporary approach to her work. In her interview, she explains the connection of her inspiration to city planning. She also talks about queer oppression and her struggles while living in Baku. Authoritarian and phobic spaces leave many queers with no choice, and Pari Banu is one of those who left the city to seek a safer and more secure space where people respect her identity. She explains the issue further in the interview.

Contrast (the Setareh Baran mall) is about a commercial project (mall) in the lower part of Tabriz, which was completed in June 2016. And it has a beautiful design that attracts people from nearby and even further away, and it is one of the rarest cases, because such projects are implemented in high-end and expensive areas of Iranian cities, and we do not see such projects in the lower parts of the city. This is very admirable.

Fourth episode of a mini series about Belgian contemporary architecture commissioned by Wallonie-Bruxelles Architecture in the framework of EUMiesAward 2022. Let’s discover the extension of the Ursulinen School based Mechelen and designed by Label Architecture.

An intergenerational design research project that brings virtual reality and video gaming technologies to local communities in public housing as design communication tools. During a series of interactive and engaging co-design activities, youth and older adults are taken as co-researchers to critically reflect on public spaces and give agency to everyday knowledge. Participants are empowered with techniques of digital tools that help them to generate shared expressions of spatial needs and develop a mutual understanding of community interests. The participatory tools and processes are evaluated and published as open-source educational materials, together with the analysed co-design outcome.