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Space Saloon returns to Timișoara, Romania with .eu for ‘Softcovers’ - the first in Eastern Europe of its kind. We will be stationed in the heart of the city, for 10 days, joined by local and international guests. Participant work created will be featured in the 2024 Timisoara Architecture Biennial, curated by Oana Stănescu.

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Space Saloon returns to Romania! We are proud to announce that our collaboration with and .eu continues in a new form. Join us in late July for an action packed week of workshops, collaborative forms of making, and communal engagement on the subject of architectural covers. The theme ‘Softcovers’ is in response to the 5th edition of the Timișoara Architecture Biennial, curated by Oana Stănescu.

Join us! Sign up via the website. Reach out to us for more information. See you there!

Very happy to be talking tonight in Basel in the framework of S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum Salon Talks "Make Do With Now". Thanks to LINA for the support!

Save the date! Space Saloon returns to the Iowa Lakeside Lab to lead a very special 12 day AA Visiting School focused on multi-species design and public art development.

The pandemic is over! Come join us in person from June 26 - July 7 and experience the ‘community-in-residence’ atmosphere of Space Saloon’s collaborative design/build workshops.

All the details are posted on the Architectural Association’s Visiting School website, and we’ll share more information in the new year. DM us if interested and we’ll keep you in the loop!

Let’s get ready to Rrrubbbleeeeeeeee! This Saturday and will present our recent work and collaborations with .maak under the “Invisible becoming Visible” group. *Let’s get ready to Rrrubbble* is our collective visioning on repurposing undervalued materials.

The entire conference is being live-streamed from the .community website. Check out https://lina.community/conference/ for the link!

Futuro Pronto is the selected (and pictured) project which awarded us this LINA fellowship. Thanks to .eu and .artificiale for the original invitation!

We are pleased to be invited by LINA .community as a fellow to their platform — based on our recent project in Fano, Italy in collaboration with .maak

As part of the fellowship, and will travel to to present “Let’s Get Ready to Rrrrubbble” — Space Saloon + The MAAK’s thoughts on reuse, circularity and material futures.

Stay tuned for the conference 21 - 22 October and check out lina.community for more!

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Cameron just finished a week staying as a resident artist in our prototype residency with - the image is a recent piece of his from an exhibition held in NYC. Thanks Cameron for your participation!

Cameron R. Kursel is occupied by exploring the secret craft languages of fabrication and construction. His work as an artist and architect explores materiality, texture, form and hardware. He merges personal and structural narratives to create abstract topologies of space.

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If you consider yourself and artist and live in relative travel distance to Joshua Tree, please reach out to us. We’ll keep you posted on future opportunities!

Our first two participating artists and designers in our pilot residency are Dylan Krueger .things and Senna Hanner-Zhang

The images, respectively, are a preview into their previous and ongoing work.

Dylan Krueger is a California-based designer and educator. With projects ranging from residential renovations to haystack compositions, Dylan’s creative practice seeks familiar qualities of the everyday as sources for architectural appropriation.

Senna Hanner-Zhang is a Los Angeles based artist and designer whose work revolves around place-making, memory, and diasporic storytelling.

We’ve been cleaning up the archives, updating our website and taking stock.

Here’s a fun competition we were invited to design for - a ‘Water Works Park’ that made use of standardized piping components, valves and taps.

Our catalogue of possible configurations for play equipment, seating, sculptural elements and way-finding signage works with found materials, or “ready mades”, as a way of preventing material waste and reducing construction complexity.

‘Water Works Park’ aimed to celebrate the physical and organizational structures that are used to transport water throughout one’s city. We see value in referencing these forms as a way of informing younger children about how water reaches their home. The project references the full water journey, including the process of evaporation, condensation and precipitation, and how this is then integrated into our sophisticated plumbing and water delivery systems.

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Hi there! We popped in to introduce you to a new project in collaboration with

Throughout the month of September and October four artists selected from Space Saloon’s working network in Southern California will each stay a week at AutoCamp. They will receive a stipend for their short reflections on the larger prototype residency.

The first artists participating are:
Dylan Krueger .things
Senna Hanner-Zhang.
Cameron R. Kursel
Emily Barker

We’ll be slowly introducing you to them as the project kicks off. Artists were selected based on their interests related to climate care, landscape and environmental narrative.

Our residency encourages artists to reflect on forms of ecosystemic wayfinding in the high desert - how do we move through, inhabit and interact with our environment in a responsible, caring and sensitive manner?

If anyone is in or around Southern California and interested in possible future residency iterations, please reach out!

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That’s a wrap! Our three day workshop with porto futuro] is now over, but our work continues. The “Futuro Pronto” pavilion is the first step of what will become a larger research and design agenda for the Port of Fano. Built out of reclaimed materials from the shipyard, the pavilion both celebrates the identity of the port and invites the public to reflect on the future uses of the area.

An HUGE thanks goes out to porto futuro] and .artificiale for the special invitation, and to .maak for their exceptional collaboration and teamwork during the entire process. And to our volunteers who came out on opening day to help push us to the finish line: and Yesenia Trobbiani

Curious about the design and making process? Check out the archive of stories on our profile page!

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