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Kathrin Böhm, Stefan Saffer, Andreas Lang Informalities and lasting encounters Working as part of an art/architecture team we're generally interested in the existing dynamics between formal and informal structures that are imminent to our everyday life; where individual interests collide with institutionalized structures. Informal encounters and moments as part of our social and professional life are crucial in regards to how we understand context and how we influence it. The nature of public organizations often contradicts the individual desire for informalities: the official versus the personnel, the corporate versus the individual, the objective versus the subjective. Recent and current projects are placed between the users and the governing bodies of public sites, trying to create new overlaps between different and differing interests and expectations. The wish to apply our practice to concrete situations meets an interest in generating new spaces for engagement and development. Fitting, a 6 months consultation and design project with the fireman of Feuerwache 10 in Munich, developing and implementing permanent changes to the new build Firestation, where architectural formalisms meets daily life. Layout Gasworks, a research and feasibility study for Gasworks Gallery, which examined how the institution is known, perceived and used by its audiences and how its programs act/interact within a local context, exploring various strategies for the development of the organization in the short, medium and longer term. Mobile Porch, a multifunctional mobile space, designed for roaming the public sphere, engaging with the users and the governing bodies of public spaces. Spacemakers, a public space design project with a group of teenagers for the Hartcliffe Area in Bristol. Following aspects and questions are part of all projects: - Creating a transparent and accessible decision making process/ program during projects. - Incorporating the particular knowledge form informal encounters into longer-term changes and proposals. - Finding ways of bridging the gap between consultation/participation and "professional" solution-making. - Remaining curious and open to how the intention of a project is moved on and changed during its own development. - More Hanging Out!!!!! 
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