CHORA is an urban and architectural research laboratory founded in 1994 with the aim of understanding, modelling and transforming dynamic processes in complex urban situations. It is a peripatetic urban agency that combines practice with research.

Through in-situ urban studies, theoretical and critical reflection, CHORA has developed an original methodology aimed at registering, through fieldwork, proto-urban conditions, the dynamic modelling of these conditions, the ordering and unfolding of programmes through scenario development, and the formation of Liminal Bodies – urban prototypes – for policy-making and action planning.