Urban Manufacturing / Manufacturing the Urban

Time Period
10/2012
Location
Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zürich

In the context of the international congress reart:theurban ( www.rearttheurban.org ), Zurich-based entrepreneurs, supported by local architects, have transformed their innovative ideas for particular localities into visionary urban projects. The result of these collaborations is one model that assembles all ideas and sites into a common virtual urban space. The experiment intends to show what could happen if Zurich would be a fertile ground for small-scale entrepreneurial initiatives.

This “urban experiment” was developed in a joint venture between BHSF Architekten and the Professorship of Architecture and Urban Design at the ETH Zurich. The manufacturers and their architects were…

Camenzind (www.cazmag.com), Antonio Scarponi (http://www.conceptualdevices.com), Eliten Rutishauser (www.elianerutishauser.com), Fab-Lab Zürich (http://zurich.fablab.ch), Furrer Jud Architekten (www.furrerjud.ch), Intercomestibles (www.intercomestibles.ch), Kommode Verlag (www.kommode-verlag.ch), KOBRAA (http://kobraa.ch), rhinamayr (http://rhinamayr.com), Sputnik (www.sputnikzurich.com), Studio Zürich (www.studiozurich.ch), Future Cities Laboratory / Urban Strategizers (www.futurecities.ethz.ch), VEG and the City (www.vegandthecity.ch), Zitrone (http://bombay-bar.ch), zURBS (http://www.zurbs.org)