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New Territories for Architecture Services offered by OUA / Portfolio of Projects OUA engages new territories that are overlooked by current practice and offers a range of services to willing, unwilling and nonexistent clients. These services include, but are not limited to: exploiting technology, neutralizing debt, subverting regulations, provoking publicness, subverting borders, pre-emptive consultancy and misusing just about everything. >>> >>>
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Exploiting Technology – an architecture that is out of this world! unsolicited intentions: promoting increased interaction among individuals and between individuals and their environment Neutralizing Debt – an architecture that builds on guilt unsolicited intentions: questioning value, raising awareness and profiting from misfortune Subverting Regulations – an architecture that is just barely legal unsolicited intentions: coercing clients into action and manipulating the law to our own advantage Provoking Publicness – an architecture that is only barely there unsolicited intentions: installing temporary & minimal interventions to promote civil society building Subverting Borders – an architecture of enclosure in places of separation unsolicited intentions: undoing or ignoring territorial restrictions to improve living conditions Pre-emptive Consultancy – an architecture that anticipates disaster unsolicited intentions: developing interventions that counteract and profit from potential disasters Misusing Clients – an architecture of deception and inaction unsolicited intentions: how to remain unsolicited when approached by a client
Volume 14
OUA’s projects operate on a scale as small as the individual transaction, as large as the global economy and anything in between. OUA believes you can make money while doing what makes you happy. Whether for socially responsible causes, a question of artistic expression or bringing a provocative idea to fruition, OUA provides solutions that combine personal fulfillment with sound business practice.
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