Spaces Guild 25-26

In the Spaces Guild 2025-2026 (Rasheed Jalloul, Mana Pinto, Jonah Kawri Ramírez Sturzenegger and Maria Zreiq), we are interested in approaching the residency from the relaxed production of a device that catalyses situations. How can the common space affect what we make available to people? 

We are interested in recovering research like that of the previous cycle, in which we dedicated ourselves to exploring the definitions of the institutional space, with the aim of affecting that space through events related to enjoyment and collectivity. We are reviving ideas previously explored by the Guild: What are the institution's rules? How can established space influence and establish our collective behaviour, our bodies, and our thoughts? We wish to bring these questions to the urban plane as an instituted space, understanding public space as a territory that is both institutional and urban, traversed by visible and invisible norms. 
 
This year, our research has focused on exploring the acupuncture of space, specifically the institutional space called public space. We are also interested in exploring the limits of domesticity and impermanence within that space, asking ourselves how certain domestic gestures can break into the public sphere and how the ephemeral can temporarily reconfigure the established order, activating a common ground that connects the institutional and the urban. As a group, we have dedicated ourselves to designing and thinking internally about what we need or what we want to see in public space in order to project a type of mobile scenery that facilitates the generation of a common space in the public sphere. This process has been sustained through inter-guild collaborations that have given rise to dynamics of collective reconfiguration.

Rasheed, Mana, Maria and Jonah