The Open Agency Project : operations in the Creative UnCommons
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Horiuchi, Haruka![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/57517/613364766-MIT.pdf.jpg?sequence=5&isAllowed=y)
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Operations in the Creative UnCommons
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
Advisor
Ana Miljački.
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The Open Agency Project proposes an experimental architecture office as an agency for ideas and inventions. By actively seeking unconventional design opportunities, taking advantage of loopholes in restrictive codes, and hacking/tinkering rather than master planning, this office aims to insert architectural ideas into unexpected places and spur the imaginative rethinking of familiar problems. The open-source sharing of research, process and design is embraced and DIY attitudes are encouraged in order to make good design accessible and intelligible to everyone. The Open Agency Project aspires to harness bottom-up action to transform ideas into realities, and ultimately to transform reality.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2010. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. "February 2010." Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-230).
Date issued
2010Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of ArchitecturePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Architecture.