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The creation of socially involved space, both on an architectural and urban scale, has become one of the determinants of contemporary design in recent years. Designing areas that will meet additional social goals is often associated with widening of the group of people involved in its creation. One of the possible models is connected with using local participation as a method of creating a functional space. Examples of activities that were undertaken in 2014-2017 during cyclical architectural workshops in the vill...

Animals have been present in human life since the first domestication of their species. Nature was encircling urban areas with its abundance, while being humanВ’s source of life and the greatest threat. With the development of urbanization some of the species inhabited humanВ’s settlements, while some remained in the wilderness surrounding the enclosed urban space. Uncertain man's situation caused aversion to "alien" in the city. The progressive development of the world's urbanization has made it difficult to talk...

The main aim of the paper is to analyze the possibility of introducing the idea of combining functions hitherto treated as conflicting in architectural and urban programming, i.e. office and agricultural functions. The combination of this type is, according to canons of urban design, an antithesis of the possibility of creating usable spaces. In recent times, however, the departure from intentional functional segregation has become a global trend, which of the extreme case is nowadays the idea of creating self-suf...