LU’UM — Open Collective

LU’UM was founded in Hamburg in 2019 as an open collective bringing together architects, urban practitioners, and artists interested in developing new forms of spatial collaboration. Initiated by Javi Acevedo and Alberto Kanin together with a growing network of collaborators, the collective emerged from a shared decision to move beyond conventional architectural practice and explore collective, process-oriented ways of working.
Conceived as a platform for experimentation, LU’UM created spaces of encounter through temporary architecture, performative exhibitions, workshops, and discursive formats. The collective focused on transdisciplinary exchange — designing, building, researching, and curating environments that encouraged new perspectives on how urban space can be perceived and inhabited.
Between 2019 and 2021, Javi Acevedo played a central role in shaping the collective’s activities, contributing through project management, execution planning, and organisational structures across multiple initiatives. During this period, LU’UM collaborated with international artists, local communities, and municipal partners, producing projects that ranged from experimental gathering formats to cooperative urban interventions.
Rather than functioning as a fixed group, LU’UM operated as an open framework for bold spatial experiments and collective learning — laying the foundation for many of the later participatory formats and mobile devices developed within Acevedo’s independent practice.