Their projects focus on territorial strategies of global spaces, involving a critical analysis of spatial and temporal anomalies and documentation of the ways in which human beings subvert and appropriate spaces for their own uses. MAP OFFICE works with parallel practices across visual art, publishing, writing, design, exhibition design, and teaching… A sense of play exists in much of their collaborative work, through a practice including text, drawing, photography, video and the creation of new platforms of communication.

Founded by artist Tadej Pogacar. In 1990 he founded the Museum of Contemporary Art, which starting in 1993 would come to be known as the PARASITE Museum of Contemporary Art.

It is a mobile organism and a critical model that only assumes the outward appearance and name of a cultural institution. Its operations are geared towards the analysis and symbolic deconstruction of institutionalised powers and the search for alternative cultural, economic and social models.

Furthermore, the art / parasite relationship inverts not only the relational modes between the work and the exhibition space, but also the way in which some museums choose to relate to the city.

In fact, the structure extends through the city of Ljubljana branching out in an international network. With regards to parasitism in nature, it takes on political features: the organisation, equipped with the spaces of the museum, the archives and the research centres, studies alternative models for land and cultural development, operating by means of performances and advertising.

Architect who studies the potential colonisation of buildings by exploiting their spaces, supporter of planning and researcher of legal loopholes that would allow the creation of new housing units.

The architect works in several different projects as a cultural activist. He has directed the laboratory “The subversion of the public space” in the cultural event “Intrusions, Art, Architecture and Urban Planning in the cities to come” at the Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art in Seville.

The objective proposed by Cirugeda is civil disobedience and tricking the law so it will affirm the need to provide everybody with the space they need, seeking potential loopholes and infiltrations.

The main concept of this architect is to return the space to the public. As happens in the Rucksack House project developed by Eberstadt, he employs spaces that are illegal or verging on the illegal to hold a single individual, posing the issue of the intrusion of a private microcosm in the public space.

The experiments of Cirugeda share some themes with other authors that analyse parasitic relationships with the space; a denunciation of private property and of the overall management of the public space, which is dominated by approaches that go counter to the interests of the public.

The project of the Wohlfhart – Laymann residence carried out by Meixner Schlüter Wendt is one of the works exhibited in the German Pavilion of the Venice Biennale.

The architects were to work on a typical suburban residence, to be expanded and restructured, or simply demolished and rebuilt. The original plan was to demolish the existing building to build a more contemporary one, but due to financial limitations they were forced to reinterpret the existing object. The result is an old rural home integrated in a cubic building. The building underwent some alterations, but it is easily recognised. The extensions are located between the old house and the new shell.

The relationship of the new architecture to the outside is profoundly different from the one of the former construction: while the latter opened to the outdoors by means of windows, the new structure includes a glass wall.

Starting out from the particular location and points of reference of the building, the planning develops by the observation and analysis of various aspects of daily life and their typical patterns. These may include anything from urban spatial conditions, urban furniture, objects, etc. The developed spatial conditions have a quality of naturalness / authenticity, and are a reflection of human activity.

They are examined and transformed by means of drawings, painted figures, sculpture and architecture.

They are different perspectives and interpretations of mass and space; the new space and the intermediate space are designed on the basis of these relationships, providing a direct and fundamental answer.

Eberstadt simply adds a room to a building, opening a range of possibilities.

The first one, which tends to happen in every modality of “parasitism”, focuses mainly in a building’s potential to have more room. The German artist works on a construction based on the annexing of a new space that makes the main space susceptible to potential additions.

The second subject that arises is the transposition of the expanded space. Eberstadt’s role is to construct it attending not only to size, but also conceiving the space as a sculpture, thus opening it up to artistic possibilities.

The third factor is the relationship established between the private and the public spaces. The last issue posed by this project, the source of its uniqueness, is its structural dependency. The volume is anchored to the building by means of cables extending all the way to the opposite façade.

In this small architectural creation, Eberstadt summarises the main features of parasitic architecture.

The Raum Zita Kern project, carried out by Artec Architekten, originated from the client’s demand to remodel her own house and achieve a working space with an separate entrance attached to the house.

The result involved the elimination of the former roof and its replacement with an informal space that is articulated seeking a relationship with the terrain. From a conceptual standpoint, the alteration of the existing architecture reflects the coexistence of two entities far apart in time.

The addition is built with panels of shining metal and glass walls to reinforce the contrast with the old materials.

By making the attic inhabitable, the possibilities of spatial articulation are expanded. The annex is accessed by a separate entrance that opens to a deck and connects with the lower level.