[Design Lecture Series] Margherita Manfra

Margherita Manfra is architect and co-founder of Orizzontale, an architects’ collective based in Rome whose work crosses the fields of architecture, urbanism, public art and DIY practice. orizzontale since 2010 has been promoting projects of common relational spaces, giving form to both dismissed and unseen images of the city. These projects have represented the ground for experimenting new kinds of collaborative interactions between city dwellers and urban commons as well as occasions to test the boundaries of the architectural creation process.
Orizzontale experiments with new approaches to the city's public spaces: architectural projects are enriched with interdisciplinary collaborations and collective actions to bring out the potential of places while engaging local communities. Leaving room for the unexpected does not mean neglecting the generative nature of the project, it rather means building places that can react to the movement of their inhabitants, promoting spatial paradigms and open systems as a prelude to new forms of urbanity.
www.orizzontale.org/