‘Activating Space’ is meant as a platform for urban investigation and interchange of ideas. The idea for ‘Activating Space’ arose from the need to engage in a reading of the city and its critical issues today. The homonymous Meetup ‘Activating Space. Spatial Interventions and Inventions’, which I organised together with Elle Przybyla, led me to shift my attention to urban places offering some form of conflict or disturbance, places that might appear deficient, but which imply infinite possibilities for interaction.
Initiative of Constanze Sixt. info@activating-space.net
Constanze Sixt is a practicing architect. She studied Philosophy, Japanese and Theatre Science at the Freie Universität Berlin and Architecture and Urbanism at Stuttgart University. After collaborating with several architecture and landscape design practices in Germany and Spain, together with Tenerife-based GPY Arquitectos she has planned and built numerous internationally awarded projects, such as the San Bernardo Cultural Centre (AR Awards for Emerging Architects), the Arona-Vilaflor Medical Centre (Nomination Mies van der Rohe Award), the Fine Arts School for the University of La Laguna (German Design Award, American Architecture Prize) and the Tenerife Centre of Dramatic Arts, a project that was also on show at the MoMA. After receiving the Public’s Choice Award in the 2014 edition of the Premios FAD for her ephemeral installation Crosswalk, she is now planning several installations for public spaces. Constanze currently teaches Architectural Projects at the UEC Universidad Europea de Canarias.