Anna-Laura Bourguignon represents the French office aaa/atelier d’architecture autogérée. AAA is an urban research collective platform in Paris, established in 2001. The collective, co-founded by architects Constantin Petcou and Doina Petrescu, involves specialists, artists, researchers, and institutional partners from universities, arts organizations, and local organisations. In their projects AAA often experiment with unused spaces and encourage the involvement of local residents. Selected projects include: Ecobox, a series of gardens made from recycled materials active from 2001 to 2006; and Passage 56, the transformation of a disused passageway in a culturally diverse Parisian neighborhood into a productive and eco-friendly garden and cultural space in 2006. Currently AAA develops R-Urban (r-urban.net) a participative strategy of urban resilience in the Parisian Region. AAA’s work has received numerous international prizes including Zumtobel, Curry Stone, EIB Social Innovation, European Public Space Prize.
Anna-Laura Bourguignon comes to Bulgaria with the support of the French Institute in Bulgaria.
