The Studio for Immediate Spaces
(SIS) is a two-year MA programme at Amsterdam's renowned Sandberg
Instituut. It aims to explore and shape spatial practices on the genesis
and production of contemporary spatial configurations. Through
extensive field investigations, SIS works as a laboratory, testing ideas
relevant to how we live today and how we could live tomorrow.


Rural
flatlands, suburbia and gritty city settings; Mediterranean shorelines
and Alpine mountainscapes; open-pit mines and industrial legacies;
abandoned buildings and unfinished infrastructures; harbours, airports
and refugee camps: Such places were the sites of SIS's research and
production between 2016 and 2019. Directed by Swiss architect Leopold
Banchini, it embraced a truly global approach that crossed, and
deliberately ignored, borders.


This book offers a glimpse into
this unique journey around the world. Illustrated with some 790 colour
and black-and-white photographs, it features work produced collectively
by participants in simultaneous roles of geographer, researcher,
architect, urban planner and designer. Brief texts on each project and
essays by Leopold Banchini and other SIS faculty, studio participants as
well as by curator and writer Lukas Feireiss round out this exceptional
documentation of forward-thinking higher education in spatial design.