EXYZT is a design collective that works to activate empty plots and spaces within cities. As Independent Developers we have tried to champion meanwhile projects and have actively commissioned projects on our site on Union Street that was empty for many years. We have had an ongoing collaboration with EXYZT to activate this site and have together created the Southwark Lido, the Lake and The Reunion.
EXYZT, in their own words…
EXYZT is a ‘platform for multidisciplinary creation’ whose aim is to challenge the view of architecture as an independent field of practice. Instead, they embark on experimental living ventures built collectively.
The collective conceive and organise each project as a playground in which cultural behaviours and shared stories relate, mix and mingle. Each project, always strive to involve different constituencies of the local community in a social network that is invited to inhabit a temporary space.