Adhocracy participants reveal their projects as a set of instructions for the “Architecture” issue guest edited by Fake Industries Architectural Agonism.
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Occupy for a Self-Shaped City by Lorenza Baroncelli
La Bodega is the only occupied space in Colombia. Inhabited by unpredictable and traditionally hidden subjectivities, it is a disputed space in the pre-existing urban fabric of Bogotá that hosts instances and projects experimenting new models for the city. The story of La Bodega demonstrates how the experience of occupation is possible and replicable; it is the story of its inhabitants and illuminates how occupation can spark more than urban transformation, becoming an opportunity for change and growth of single individuals. It’s also the story of the abandoned buildings in the center of Bogotá, and how they can be re-opened and transformed.

Five instructions to occupy a building
1. Search an abandoned building in a part of your town that you consider interesting.
2. Make a first visit (possibly overnight) to check the condition of the building and verify at the land registry who is the owner of the building.
3. Change the lock of the door a few days before you come in and never admit to have changed it.
4. Set a date and move inside (it is your decision to publicize it or not), and be extremely careful not to let the police enter.
5. Use the space to intercept the changing needs in the area and use your creativity to invent unexpected and innovative solutions. Don’t shut yourself in the building but look, learn and nurture the energies in the territory. Tell the people you interact with that they can do the same.

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More Adhocracy projects with instructions: How to curate an extemporary show of Yona Friedman in the city of Istanbul, Re-reading Giancarlo De Carlo, How to build your own House in six Steps, Immanent Testimony

How to curate an extemporary show of Yona Friedman in the city of Istanbul by Maurizzio Bortolotti
The following instructions are for building an exhibition of the architect Yona Friedman’s work, regarding two of its main concepts:
1- The idea of the production of architecture/art by people.
2- The idea of art/architecture as unpredictable processes, in which creativity and social communication are connected to each other, enabling inhabitants to dwell and live the contemporary city. Therefore, if art and architecture express an idea of contemporary culture, Yona Friedman’s idea of the production of culture is though participation.

Instructions
1. Find a public passage or a small square.
2. Look around for very simple materials like cardboard, wire or plywood.
3. Look at Yona Friedman’s drawings published on the web (especially from his book Pro domo).
4. Set up a display or show looking at the pictures and using these materials to build unpredictable architecture made by people.
5. Invite street artists to make their interventions inside these unpredictable architectures and you’ll have a Street Museum.

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More Adhocracy projects with instructions: Virus Plug, Open Urban, The Retired City, TOKİ Dwellers, How to Set up a Popup Restaurant

Virus Plug In by Makerlab

The Virus Plug-in is an object that will use a public structure as its own. It will grow around itself, almost self-replicating, and will give a new sense and value to its location, one decided by citizens.
We hope that by introducing objects to the street and telling people how they can be made, we initiate a viral action, were people feel able, allowed and encouraged by their peers to hack the public space. This is not, in itself, the change. The change depends very much on the willingness of people to get involved. It is not an action to impose a new concept—it is designed to invite reflection. And if just one person is inspired to do something, whatever that might be, we will have succeeded in spreading this virus.
Allowing for different interpretations of what a virus plug-in might look like, thus showing people a wider spectrum of what is possible, meant that we had to find a common language that unifies the project and help people connect the different plug-ins, sparking their curiosity.

Instructions
1. Take pictures of the public structure that you want to use for the plug in.
2. Upload pictures to 123D. Catch to make a 3D scan of the structure. If you have an I-Phone you can upload directly as you take the pictures.
3. Import the file to a 3D modeling program. You can use free software like Sketch Up, or any other surface modeling program.
4. Model your plug in around it. In this way you will have an almost perfect fit. But still have to deal with how it will be connect to it!
5. Import your 3D model to 123Make, and select interlocking slices.
6. Save files and Laser cut them.
7. Put it together.
8. Place it in the public space.
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Participants of Adhocracy describe their installations in the form of a set of instructions for NCR08[Architecture]. Here are some of those projects: Mapping Identity, Hotel Bus / DIY Bed and Breakfast Complex, The Barley Field and Live Load.

Mapping Identity by Antonio Ottomanelli

The Istanbul Design Biennial was the occasion to continue the Mapping research, which is a practice always organized in three steps, referred to a collective intimacy biography:
1—survey (investigation)
2—story (registration)
3—monumentalization
PANORAMIO analogic is an open Mapping workshop experiences set up in an attempt to orient through artistic practice, a critical two-way query on the question of identity, intended as consciousness of historical forces that determine a particular condition of existence and certain structures of social relations. This kind of project is an important moment of reflection and work on “libertarians and independent” models of investigation, which constitute the study of forms of language representation and the construction of a precise information program.
All the laboratory projects developed so far, keep behind the need to tell—starting from below and in the most immediately transmittable way—cultural issues hardly translatable with traditional tools and techniques. The desire to humanly describe what we do not understand.

Instructions
What You Need
1 An all-aged and all-social class group of people coming from different part of the city.
2 Tell to all the people that will participate to bring old photos from their family albums that can show the story of their families.
3 A simple touristic map of Istanbul on a white wall.
4 Divide the map into different rectangles, each rectangle will belong to a person.
Knowing Each Other
5 Take the time to know each person involved in the project.
take the time to listen to their story, and watch together to their photos.
6 Try with them to find their intimate monuments, their capital confession.
The Video Set
7 Built your easel and put on it a 50x40cm rectangle glass.
Video Recording
8 Interview and video record from the opposite side each person while drawing – face toward you – behind the glass, speaking, and attaching the family albums photos on the glass.
PANORAMIO
9 Project on the wall map, in the same time and in the correct city rectangle, all the videos you’ve recorded.
10 Fulfill the map with all the drawings and the pictures that the participants were speaking about.

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