Oneoff is a team that is activated in the field of architecture and design, giving particular significance in the designing of public spaces. In parallel with the architectural practice it tries to persuit two research areas, to combine them and to include them in its designing. The first object concerns the public space and the dynamics that this constitutes and the second is referring to the research for architecture via designing (more characteristic is the term: "Research by Design").
We conceive the public space as the eminently space of common human action and human initiative. It is the space of city where the citizen meets itself, collaborates, communicates. It is a space of intensity, is changeable, kinetic, dynamic indeed. We are interested to study the way through which the architect is interfering, with what architectural tools, in what level an interdisciplinary research and cooperation can exist to improve the designing and with what architectural equipments or architectural suggestions the architect is participating in this interdisciplinary cooperation. More over, we are interested in the spaces that cause cross-cultural and multicultural questions, because they are characterized by particular intensity and unanticipated dynamics. (Lately we are negotiating questions that concern multicultureness in the unified European area, precisely because today there is an effort to constitute a new collectiveness from its citizens, cf. mobilizations)
The research for the architecture through designing is an effort to use the same architectural tools in order to investigate situations and conceptual questions. For us, research by design in architecture means that the architect owes to determine a territorial problem with social extensions, to constitute his theoretical background and to seek bridges (theoretical or not) with other cognitive fields. At the same time, it advances in a abstractive territorial proposal with possibilities of development in the future, that however maintain the force of abstractive thought, in other words can also activate other artistic or scientific fields, after it facilitates the multiple reading. I n a research for architecture the tools will be those creating the theoretical construction, which will formulate the ' open ' problem and will be useful as starting line for individual activations - resolutions. The tools therefore should act abstractively and can be of two types: (a) conceptual tools, those formulating a theoretical problem and each time the architect can lent from other cognitive regions (for example anthropology, sociology, philosophy, psychoanalysis) in the frames of ' mesh of reports ' and (b) abstractive tools of planning or perhaps better tools that can formulate and transport meanings between the research fields with spatial terms. We are interested therefore in a research that uses the particular tools of architecture so much in order to provide solutions and reversely in order to it formulates questions. It is a form of research which gives importance in the process, uses the design and the knowledge of other sectors.
(Special thanks to Marios Kefalogiannis for his contribution in further editing many of the english texts on this site.)