LA Q - LABORATORIO DE CREATIVIDAD URBANA/SPAIN
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VISION & MISSION

La Q is a working environment to foster creativity applied to human habitats. It allows a spontaneous, self-arranged and artistic work style. Read more »

PHOTO GALLERY

AERIAL VIEW
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METHODS & TECHNIQUES

  • Collaborative art. In the “Disonancias” project it framed the stage of an artist involving many people and processes to develop together a joint vision on sustainable urban environments to identify oneself with.
  • Inter-institutional participation. In the PD Labraza it brought together opposed agents and facilitated communication and decision processes.
  • Spatial thinking. For the covering of the room, the design of a corporative stand, the musealization of a territory and other planning and design tasks, it uses architectural tools applied to other disciplines and professional profiles.
  • Complex mapping. At the strategic research plan it gives location, relation and scale to multiple mixed concepts and aims; at the holistic and multidisciplinary teams it identifies wide paths, pitfalls, bridges and dead ends.
  • Ideas generation. In many project kick-offs it facilitates brainstorming, ideas selection, freshness, figurative thinking and fusion of high and low technologies.
SENSES
It is an open space within a large factory hall. Furniture and objects are all movable and easy to (de)compose. It contains several toys, artistic tools, weird objects and pictures and high and low technologies to play with. Read more »
HISTORY
In October 2006, a number of colleagues experienced on innovation, urban issues and multidisciplinary team work started focusing on new ways of solving the spatial problem. Read more »
SERVICES
Facilitates corporate social responsibility and internal processes at the parent company (Labein-Tecnalia). Read more »
METHODS & TECHNIQUES
Collaborative art. In the “Disonancias” project it framed the stage of an artist involving many people and processes to develop together a joint vision on sustainable urban environments to identify oneself with. Read more »
THE TEAM
It is an open team drawing from more than 20 interested volunteers belonging to the personnel of the parent company, all experienced and highly qualified. Read more »

 Web Masters:
Caroline Dunne & Henrik Danckwardt

 Project Coordinator:
Paolo Martinez