Following the successful outcome of the First dpr-barcelona Writing Grant under the umbrella of Future Architecture on 2019, this year we are again launching the Writing Grant as part of Future Architecture 2020 Call for Ideas. We’re inviting writers to join Future Architecture exploration... View full entry »
We're super happy to share that our book Explorations in Urban Practice. Urban School Ruhr Series has been shortlist for the Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. The prize winner for one title of $15,000 AUD and five finalists of... View full entry »
For sociologists and philosophers, agency is the capacity of an entity to act in any given environment. In recent years, architecture has been confronted with an ever-changing social, economic, political and built environment; thus the practice has been constantly challenged to define, discuss and... View full entry »
Autonomous ArchivingEdited by Artikisler Collective (Özge Çelikaslan, Alper Sen, Pelin Tan)As an institutional practice, archival practices often tent to serve to colonization, surveillance and discipline society of the Modern world. In the last ten years, with the digital technology... View full entry »
The Adhocracy READER, an e-Book that unfolds the issues that widens up and deepen the theoretical, historical and empirical theme of the exhibition. The publication also tries to get rid from the assumption of what a catalog should be. It does not collect or list exhibited projects... View full entry »
Following the spirit of Adhocracy first exhibition, we’re making an open call for projects, ideas, and experiences that pose different ways to change the system by changing the way of doing things. Such experiences include and should not only be limited to the use of digital... View full entry »
As part of the Think Space MONEY cycle, we're happy to announce that the deadline for the second competition 'MONEY — Culture and Society' is on January 31, 2014. Pedro Gadanho [Curator of Contemporary Architecture at MoMA] is the juror of this second competition and the theme of the... View full entry »
MONEY [The Echo of Nothing] Think Space programme 2013|14 curated by Ethel Baraona Pohl and César Reyes Nájera | dpr-barcelona. Curatorial Statement: “Money is any object or record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a... View full entry »
No money? Pay with bitcoins! The Bitcoin currency is fueled by people seeking to promote an expedient, global, and decentralized system of peer-to-peer interactions. Instead of finding "creative ways" to keep doing the same (e.g. using money), we at dpr-barcelona believe that moving forward in... View full entry »
The Anonymous-like robot says: As technicians our first proposal was related with topics such as renaturalization, diatomes, and chemical reactions among others. We all often believe that technology can always “save the world.” WHY WE SHOULD KEEP DOING THE SAME? We’re living a... View full entry »
Using Augmented Reality [AR] to make hybrid architecture books With the aim to expand the contents of our books, we're working on the concept of "hybrid books" by means of using Augmented Reality interaction. This time we're featuring the book Weaponized Architecture by Léopold Lambert... View full entry »
Following the debate “Communication and Bottom-UP. The importance of the way stories are being told.” we [at dpr-barcelona] are committed to expand the debates and conversations avoiding them to get lost after a few days of the event. With this motivation, we have published a... View full entry »
From Line to Hyperreality. Article published on Domus 956 with AR interaction [for the first time] In the current issue of Domus, which is dedicated to the theme of representation, our article "From Line to Hyperreality" surveys contemporary architectural representation, from traditional... View full entry »
If you were asked to store your most valuable data... What kind information would you keep in 1.35 Mb? Your usernames and passwords, your delicious tabs, a PDF with all your tweets, a map as a biography? Do you think this data would be valuable if mapping the genomic code of knowledge at this... View full entry »
Sharing ideas for a relational and multiconnected order #globalchange Encouraged by the spirit of #15O hackitectura and dpr-barcelona are sharing today the full version of Wikiplaza: a connected social territory. Animados por el espiritu del #15O hackitectura y dpr-barcelona comparten hoy la... View full entry »
As part of our on-going project Architecture in your Hand we recently launched The Unknow Fields Division mobile-book: U-Fields [downloadable for iPhone + Android]. ................................................................. U-Fields app is a mobile-book which registers an epic journey into... View full entry »
