About
Workshop in cooperation with students of the TU Wien
The Sudden Workshop is a working method and tool for the collective reactivation of the city’s unused spaces. It was founded in 2015 by architects Mark Neuner and Andreas Lint and has since grown to a collective with steady members Christian Höhl, Nikolaus Kastinger, Arne Leibnitz and Marlene Lötsch.
The mission is to encourage the participants to collaboratively design, build and dream – aiming for new, cooperative uses of public space. Since projects within the sudden workshop format are always initiated as open, collaborative processes, all participants are asked to realise a common idea. As building material, the Sudden Workshop uses only solid wooden boards with a width of 10 and 20 cm, which are exclusively cut with a chop saw in order to reduce the required tools to a minimum and to be able to move the whole workshop with a single car-load. The outcome of this open process are prototypes which are publicly accessible and may not be commercially exploited. Sets of construction manuals for the designed objects are seen as common goods and should thus be a means of enabling people to get active themselves.
Sudden Workshop extended team: Wolfgang List, Maik Perfahl, Irina Nalis, Bernhard Stubenböck
