Small Buildings - Big Changes, [En]visioning futures of social equity, through architecture

The main idea of this workshop was to transmit to students the idea that the architect must become, as in the past, the real head of the building process. Sometimes the design programs are vague, not well determined or even wrong and a wrong program leads to a wrong project. If it’s true that architects serve approximately 2 or 3 % of the world’s population than they are not having a great influence in the development of our built environment. According to our perception, the problem is that formalism has become the rule. Therefore, the proposal of this workshop was to restart from the bottom. Working on small buildings gives architects the opportunity to expand their role beyond the design process. The design program is not an abstract entity: it depends on an external agenda, an internal agenda and circumstances.