MAMA

YOUR MAMA

MAMA is a developing spatial practice to whom maintenance matters. This print is your selection of our reflexions presented in the form of a manual. Check our website for more.

Starting in 2015 with the these maintenance as craft, a critical approach of the notion of work to question our relationship with the environment, we believe that maintenance is architecture : an integral part of the designed and built environment that transforms it radically. To act accordingly, we ask ourselves what is maintained when we maintain and practice maintenance as a research method. We develop through storytelling, including research, drawings, writings, workshops, conferences, exhibitions and direct action. We do data analysis and image representation. From the maintenance industry to daily households, all over the wide spectrum of design, architecture and urbanism, MAMA calls for dinner.

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Printed on a fabric covering the Concord temple in Sicily a representation of how the building could have looked like originally. Printing historic buildings …

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Printed on a fabric covering the Concord temple in Sicily a representation of how the building could have looked like originally. Printing historic buildings on fabrics that cover construction works is a common practice. From the eye of a spectator, scaffolding systems and workers seem to disturb the volume, the beauty, the essence of the building.

Ironically, these works can greatly influence the longevity of the building. From our perspective, to hide these conservative processes is a counterproductive measure. It does not lead to a better understanding of the life cycle of the building neither the different practices that maintain it.

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Mosque at Djenné, in Mali. A community event that takes place annually to renew mosque walls with a brand new layer of mud. The …

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Mosque at Djenné, in Mali. A community event that takes place annually to renew mosque walls with a brand new layer of mud. The mosque has been conceived with pieces of wood installed in a regular pattern along its external surfaces. These protuberances are not meer decorative elements, they function as scaffolding, helping the believers to climb the facades.

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