Disonancias

Research commissioned: Sustainable urban environment model.
Project developed: DisAniaLia/ LabAnia/ InsAnia - Looking for new ways of working

TECNALIA is a private, independent multidisciplinary technological corporation comprising various technological centres whose mission is to provide value and enrich society in general and the company framework in particular by using research and innovation within an international context.

The Sustainable Construction and Urban Environment team, comprising 18 people, develops its activity from Zamudio (Bizkaia) within the Construction Unit (100 people, 7 teams) of TECNALIA (1,300 people, 20 units). It develops activities in the recovery of surfaces, quality of internal air, sound engineering, sustainability, innovative construction technologies and ecourbanism. It has many technical, computer and internationally experienced teams, as well as an Urban Creativity Lab (La Q), which provided technical support for Ania Bas www.aniabas.com, a Polish artist currently residing in Great Britain.

Together, they investigated a model of sustainable urban environment: the representation of a citizen space respecting natural and constructed environments, socially alive and cohesive, producing abundance and value, identifying with its place and “coopetitive” with external relationships.

The creative process that was developed was based on the application of active participation techniques that progressively involved in reflective thought the members of La Q, a team of 30 people of TECNALIA’s Construction Unit, in a very direct manner, as well as a large number of TECNALIA professionals, and even members from their family circles, favouring the search for ideas, new viewpoints and creativity that can be applied in unusual yet everyday environments (www.disanialia.blogspot.com).

The result was a profound dynamic effect on the company’s creative capabilities and the discovery of the need for participation logistics and the implication of diverse agents in configuring the desired model of sustainable urban development (using the centre itself as an experiment field). And this will become a visual conceptual reality to be adapted and transferred to specific urban projects developed by TECNALIA.