We are 8 partners in 6 European countries, all participating with our specific know-how and focus on adult learning with architecture as our main tool.
ACTYVA - Miga
ACTYVA Sociedad Cooperativa, was created at the end of 2013 in Extremadura, a mainly rural and sparsely populated region of southwestern Spain particularly affected by the context of economic crisis. With the aim of slowing the increasing emigration of young people causing a worrying depopulation of the rural areas, ACTYVA emerged to facilitate the generation of productive projects and the interconnections between them, and to reactivate links and exchanges at a local scale.
AES
Architectural Environmental Strategies is a nonprofit organisation founded in 2009, working within the field of architecture, planning and sustainable development. The organisation is made up by a dedicated group of architects and urban planners. All have a great interest in developing more community-led processes and finding new ways to generate more agency in urban planning.
AK0 - Architettura a Kilometro Zero
AK0 has been founded in 2014 as non-profit association after 5 years of informal work in the field of sustainable architecture. Its associates are mainly architects but the larger network includes structural engineers, energy consultants, permaculture designers, urban planners and craftsmen. The team offers experimental building workshops in the field of sustainable construction since 2009
ARCò – architettura e cooperazione
ARCò is a cooperative founded in 2012 by a group of architects and engineers dedicated to the production of sustainable architecture and landscape design. Its projects are based on the constant pursuing of social, economical and environmental sustainability. For this reason, ARCò explores the local traditional techniques, in order to guarantee that the construction phase can be run independently by the communities involved.
Canya Viva
CanyaViva is a multidisciplinary collective of artists, architects and set designers that has developed a fully sustainable technique for both permanent and ephemeral, organic structures using Mediterranean cane and bamboo. Since 2005 CanyaViva has been working in Spain, Portugal, Italy and India carrying out varying types and sizes of bio-construction projects, for particulars, public institutions, festivals and other cultural events.
La Haute École de Bruxelles-Brabant
Haute Ecole of Brussels-Brabant is a Belgian University College training in its pedagogical department future teachers and social educators. C.E.R.I.S.E.S. is a research center in the frame of H.E.B. with a precise expertise on social and educative projects.
Oficinas do Convento
Oficinas do Convento – Associação de Arte e Comunicação (OC) non-profit NGO for Culture, Art and Communication, based in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, since 1996. It is a NGO for Development since 2009 and a UNESCO Center since 2010. Develops its artistic activity essentially in the Visual and Sound Arts, Design and Heritage, through artistic promotion, training, production and dissemination.
Science PO
Science PO Grenoble – A top social sciences school at the heart of a world-ranking university founded in 1948. Sciences Po Grenoble’s hallmark multidisciplinary education in the social sciences and its vibrant research expertise trains tomorrow’s policy-makers. It is also known for its innovative teaching methods and distance learning programmes.
