ALAIN RENK. WIKIBUILDING: OPEN SOURCE ARCHITECTURE
Abstract
Process:
1. Digital mindset.
2. Collective intelligence that works.
Urbanity:
3. Urban commons.
4. Cracking urban code.
Openness:
5. IRL Living Lab.
6. Open innovation.
Scalability:
7. Open-source.
Alain Renk (FR) is an architect and a entrepreneur, member of the 7 billion urbanists collective, co-funder of HOST ARCHITECTS agency and UFO. The core concepts of “contributory city” and “collaborative urbanism”, respectively developped by HOST and UFO, aim at radicaly updating urbanim in digital times. Both structure share a vision in which collective intelligence empowered by digital tools for urbanism is a key solution to improve urban quality of life, with collateral benefits for environnement, economy and territorial attractivity.