10 Days of Urban Actorship
(Activating temporary architecture through collective programming and spatial experimentation)- Place
- Hamburg, Germany
- Client
- Architektursommer Hamburg
- Collaborator
- LU’UM collective
- Type
- Temporary architecture / Discursive festival format
- Practice Focus
- Collaborative urban transformation and co-creative public space production
- Materials
- Modular timber structure (envilaĝo pavilion), suspended spatial elements, nets, swings, temporary event infrastructure
10 Days of Urban Actorship was a temporary festival format realised as part of the Architektursommer Hamburg at Kraftwerk Bille. The LU’UM collective constructed and activated the modular pavilion envilaĝo within the industrial courtyard, creating a self-organised venue that functioned as both spatial installation and programme platform.
Developed from earlier work on the SoliPolis Festival, the wooden structure became an experimental environment for exploring alternative forms of urban exchange and collective action. Over ten days, the pavilion hosted performances, readings, sound installations, discussions, musical contributions, and informal gatherings — transforming the courtyard into a continuously evolving public space.
Javi Acevedo contributed to the collective design, construction, and spatial activation of the pavilion. The robust architecture allowed for a series of spatial experiments, including suspended swings and nets that encouraged visitors to inhabit the structure in unconventional ways. Rather than presenting a finished object, the project focused on the shared production of space and content, turning the pavilion into a temporary place of encounter that existed only for the duration of the festival.
The project demonstrated how collective building and programming can generate new urban situations — creating a site that functioned as a gateway for arriving visitors and as a platform for experimental forms of participation.
