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Nanotourism is a creative strategy through which we wish to change the perception and understanding of our contemporary world. We understand nanotourism beyond tourism: it is an attitude to improve specific everyday environments and a strategy to open up new local economies.
– Aljoša Dekleva, Director of AAVS Slovenia
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Mamori Art Lab’s first workshop, AAVS Amazon Director Nacho Marti tells the dramatic tale of how this visiting school came into being – starting with the purchase of a parking lot and ending in the creation of a laboratory for art, photography and design workshops.
By working in the public realm, for a client that isn’t the AA, we’re taking the first steps towards combining the radical spirit embodied in the existing work at Hooke and applying this to the wider context of West Dorset, to create what might be termed a New Vernacular.
– Clementine Blakemore, Director of AAVS Kingcombe
We want to use film as designers. There has been this idea of fiction as a device to understand reality… So while it was meant to be an architectural design exercise, it’s also something that could become an architectural device for the conceiving of exceptional architecture.
– Brendon Carlin
Co-director of Tropicality
AAVS Costa Rica