Civic design collectives
28 places in the atlas
Studios, collectives, networks and platforms that practise or map civic design: those who design with communities and those who chart what emerges.
Japan2
Ieshima家島
Himeji, Hyogo · Kansai
Island community design where local women created the "Norikko" product; a former participant opened a guesthouse and acts as concierge of the archip…
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesProjectstudio-Lスタジオ・エル
Osaka · Kansai
The reference firm of Japanese community design, with around 80 projects a year.
VerifiedSee place →Spain6
Arquitecturas Colectivas
Red estatal · Nationwide
A network of groups and people building the city in a participatory way: itinerant gatherings, legal tools for the citizen management of spaces and m…
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesProjectCIVICS (mapa de innovación ciudadana)
Madrid · Nationwide
A collaborative cartography of thousands of citizen initiatives in cities across Spain and Ibero-America.
VerifiedSee place →Civic labs and participationProjectFrena la Curva
Zaragoza (red global) · Aragon
A civic platform born in 48 hours at the start of the pandemic: a mutual aid map, an open innovation festival and replicas in some twenty countries.
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesProjectLos Madriles
Madrid · Madrid
An atlas of neighbourhood initiatives in Madrid: a collaborative cartography making visible hundreds of gardens, vacant lots, social centres and comm…
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesProjectRecetas Urbanas
Sevilla · Andalusia
Civic architecture through creative alegality: classrooms, schools and facilities self-built with communities, recycling materials and skirting the r…
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesSpaceWikitoki
Bilbao · Basque Country
A laboratory of collaborative practices in Bilbao's old town: cooperative coworking, social prototyping and experimental internal governance.
VerifiedSee place →France7
Association Nationale des Tiers-LieuxANTL
París · Nationwide
The association that brings together France's third places and their regional and thematic networks, born in 2019 as a prefiguration structure and fo…
VerifiedSee place →Civic labs and participationSpaceAvvià, la fabrique à projetsAvvià
Bastia · Corse
A public project factory run by the Communauté d'Agglomération de Bastia, opened in June 2021 in the historic centre of the city, near the citadel.
VerifiedSee place →Participatory urbanismProjectBruit du Frigo
Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
An urban creation collective founded in 1997 by architects, with roots in street workshops from the mid-1990s.
VerifiedSee place →Civic labs and participationProjectFrance Tiers-LieuxGIP France Tiers-Lieux
París · Nationwide
The public interest grouping that coordinated state policy on third places, created in 2022 by the State, the ANCT and the national association.
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesSpaceLa Coursive
Dijon · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
A cooperation space for cultural and creative businesses born in 2010 in the Grésilles district of Dijon, first in empty flats of a social housing bl…
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLa stAtion
Le Monastère · Occitanie
A third place in Rodez combining coworking, food service and cultural programming, opened in 2023 near the former municipal slaughterhouse.
Partially verifiedSee place →Italy8
AvanziAvanzi - Sostenibilita per Azioni
Milán (MI) · Lombardia
Avanzi is one of the pioneering organisations in social innovation and sustainability in Italy, active in Milan since 1997.
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesProjectcheFare
Milán (MI) · Lombardia
cheFare defines itself as an agency for cultural transformation: it has worked since 2012, and formally since 2014, with museums, libraries, cooperat…
VerifiedSee place →Art and territorySpaceCittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto
Biella · Piemonte
The artist Michelangelo Pistoletto founded Cittadellarte in 1998 in the former Lanificio Trombetta in Biella, a refurbished textile factory, to posit…
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesProjectKilowattKilowatt Societa Cooperativa
Bolonia (BO) · Emilia-Romagna
Kilowatt is the Bologna-based cooperative that in 2014 professionalised the work of the Associazione Kilowatt, winner of calls such as Incredibol and…
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesProjectLabsusLabsus, Laboratorio per la sussidiarietà
Roma · Nationwide
The laboratory that drafted the regulation for the shared administration of beni comuni that Bologna approved in 2014 and that hundreds of Italian mu…
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesProjectLamaLAMA Impresa Sociale
Florencia (FI) · Toscana
LAMA is a Florentine cooperative founded in 2007 that specialises in public policy design, participatory processes, placemaking and the management of…
Partially verifiedSee place →Thailand5
Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) y Community Architects Network (CAN)
Bangkok (Wang Thonglang) · Nationwide
An Asian network founded in 1989 that supports urban poor savings groups and their federations so they can negotiate land and housing with government…
VerifiedSee place →Civic labs and participationProjectBangkok City Labศูนย์ทดลองเมือง
Bangkok (Dusit) · Bangkok
A municipal lab created in December 2023 that tests cheap solutions to everyday problems before they become policy: furniture for street vendors in P…
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesProjectJai Baan Studioใจบ้านสตูดิโอ
Chiang Mai · North
Chiang Mai architecture and landscape studio working through participatory processes on housing, heritage and environment.
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesProjectMAYDAY!กลุ่มเมล์เดย์
Bangkok (Phra Nakhon) · Bangkok
A collective that began around 2017 by putting up, with 4,000 baht, temporary signs listing bus routes at two stops in Bangkok's old town, where ther…
Partially verifiedSee place →Participatory urbanismProjectWe!Park
Bangkok · Bangkok
A platform that turns vacant lots and leftover land in Bangkok into small public parks together with residents: workshops, tests with models and shar…
VerifiedSee place →Laos0
No places of this typology in Laos yet. The country joins in phase 2 of the atlas.
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Rennes · France
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Yamagata · Japan
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See the event →What they share: They are the field's professional and network infrastructure: they connect cases, methods and people across territories.