London architects have created a pop-up art studio to draw attention to the city’s unaffordable rents. Tomaso Boano and Jonas Prišmontas wondered if London would still be the capital of art and design in 10 years, as the cost of studios for businesses and individuals increases. Their simple structure is meant to serve as a model for what an affordable studio of the future might look like.
“London has always been a center of creative minds, but lately these financial pressures have turned creativity into an industry that only people who can afford an education and rent without a fixed income from work can join,” the designers say. – We believe that creativity should not be tied to social status.” The studio is named Minima Moralia after a text by German theorist Theodor Adorno, which is meant to stimulate reflection on the “damaged lives” of London’s creative workers. The studio has a steel frame with folding walls made of panels of translucent grooved cladding. Boano and Prismontas propose the studio as a reproducible model that could make use of the capital’s abandoned courtyards and wastelands, giving designers, artists and musicians an accessible space for experimentation.
Name: Minima Moralia
Location: London, England
Architecture: Tomaso Boano and Jonas Prišmontas
