Common Extra House Lab: Recipes for Citizenship in Transition or the Domestic-collective Usage of the Common Good

Abstract

This article describes actions that have led to progress in ways of living in citizen networks. The training framework is the last architecture course called Common Extra House Lab, in which it was encouraged to consider that there is no distinction between classroom, laboratory, and city. The domestic and its immediate public space (the extra-house) are the starting point for new socio-technical experiments which could be considered experimental comparing them with academic standards, producing hybrid forums managed by people, technologies and resources. They ended up becoming recipes for citizens in transition and turned into the legacy for the next course.

Keywords

• Laboratory-action
• domestic-urban
• transition town citizen
• tea- ching methodologies
• architectural enterprising.
• teaching methodologies
• architectural enterprising