Communities have always thrived and sustained themselves through innovative collaborations with their environment and individuals that surround them. These have often been responses to diverse needs, ranging from celebrations to contestations, formal to informal associations or progressive development to building capacity and resilience. Agency that the communities gain through such associations empower them to translate their needs to tangible and intangible solutions, each unique to the problem, place and time. Architecture can thus be identified as a tangible solution to community needs that emanate out of a collaborative alliance.
The submitted essay should reflect on how collaborative architecture can be a tangible solution to attain good and functional design that enables diversity and inclusion. How do architects reimagine/reframe processes to design for and with communities? What are the possibilities for design interventions that would involve inter-disciplinary collaborations for community infrastructures?
