ABSTRACT
‘Studio Lisbon’ was an intensive design workshop held in Lisbon in 2022 as a result of a joint organization of KU Leuven (Belgium) and the Lisbon School of Architecture (Portugal) under the framework of the FCT-funded research project ‘MetroPublicNet’, building upon the hypothesis that public space can be conceptualized and strategically designed as a network at a metropolitan scale to better integrate multiple territorial systems (mobility, green infrastructure, neighbourhood commons). The workshop focused on the reimagining of an outstanding floodplain in the heart of Lisbon Metropolitan Area, in which a rather splintered urban and agricultural patchwork is faced with complex ecological and land use challenges. ‘Studio Lisbon’ fostered an active combination of local research and practice through intensive fieldwork and design exploration, in which the contribution of Landscape Architecture in an interdisciplinary design exercise developed in close relationship with urbanism and architecture set the open spaces matrix as a structural for metropolitan design.
Building on the collaborative momentum of several academic institutions, ‘Studio Lisbon’ brought together the realms of landscape, metropolitan urbanization, and public space in a shared, intensive, and immersive research and design environment.
