let us talk about this house, about its future and its past
Inhabiting the gesture
It is a transdisciplinary project of collective restitution on architecture and social coexistence. An action of restoring a building, cultural traditions and ways of living together, involving neighbours, architects, students and theatre artists.
A great alliance among Naves-Matadero Madrid (then directed by Mateo Feijoo), the social architecture platform Recetas urbanas, (Seville), led by the architect Santiago Cirugeda, in collaboration with a team of Cuban institutions, researchers and professionals from various disciplines (performing arts, architecture, law, visual arts, heritage specialists, etc.) Supported by Siemens Foundation, Germany.
This project explored spaces and buildings of high heritage value in Havana city, and their implicit traditions, always for the benefit and function of the communities that inhabit them. In the end, it focused on a specific multi familiar building, with a huge cultural and heritage value.
During the 2 months that the project was developed (and almost 1 year of preparation) the team built a strong link between the practice of architecture and an artistic and human community in Havana. Inhabiting... was an artistic and architectural intervention (cultural and material restitution) but overall, a creation of a big community, with a group of neighbours as the center.
Project face-page here
Project Recetas Urbanas website here
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CREDITS
Coordination team
Karina Pino Gallardo, Dianelis Diéguez La O and Maité Hernández-Lorenzo (Cuba)
Santiago Cirugeda and Alice Attout (Recetas Urbanas, Sevilla)
Mateo Feijoo (Madrid)
Participants
Neighbours of the multi familiar building (Linea and 14, Havana),
Students and teachers of Escuela de Oficios, Havana,
Architects members of Recetas Urbanas Collective and
Students of Faculty of Architecture, University of Havana
Comunication
Maité Hernández-Lorenzo
Documentation
Guillermo Dominguez
Gabriel Estrada
Graphic design
Gabriel Estrada
Collaborations and acknowledgements
Joachim Gerstmeier (Siemens Foundation)
Nelys García (Office of Historian of Havana)
Suly Albejales (Architect)
Orlando Inclán (architect)
Ariel Díaz (Escuela de Oficios, teacher)
Zaida Capote (writer and literature researcher)
Ciro Bianchi (journalist and historian)
Lourdes de los Santos (filmmaker)
Yornel Martínez (visual artist)
Mariela Brito (theatre maker, El Ciervo Encantado)
Funding
Siemens Foundation, as part of the project Terreno Común, curated by Mateo Feijoo.
