Team work is also creative exploitation of natural conflict that comes with differences in characters, backgrounds, priorities of every part of the group. Sanford Kwinter said that ‘instability is the precondition of creativity’ and it can be successully transferred into team work. Friction , different impacts materialized on various stages, slight changes, which gets the work off course, all those things creates vivacious group system, characterized by difficult to predict work effect but also creativity and inconstancy.

‘Life is a case of maintaining a very delicate structure - ourselves – a significant distance from equilibrium at nearly all times, and at others - in order to evolve, grow and invent - very far from equilibrium indeed.’ /Kwinter

Metastability is a term which describes the extended duration of certain equilibria acquired by a complex system when leaving its most stable state after an external action. The parameters of such "excited" system may eventually reach and hold stationary values (a metastable state) but then, after a long time, (spontaneously or under a slight external action) parameters will start changing again. Considering the contemporary technological level and multiple scientific insights into natural systems that reflects similar tendencies, it is not hard to imagine an open ended architectural design that across its life span reveals metastable qualities.

The contemporary situation, which Guattari doesn’t hesitate to name as an “unprecedently nightmarish historical period” seems to be characterized not only by a deep and wide-spread crisis but also by a lack of hope in the future. This is not simply due to the so called death of ideology, reasons are deeper and more complex. First of all we got used to accept and give for granted the necessity to submit to a single power which can decide for all, in the name of some superior good. We are prisoner of habits, so that we witness the destruction of democracy as something unavoidable. This situation calls louder and louder for a change. A change not only on the surface but a complete redefinition of praxes and models which could enable us to  reorient the actual situation towards a really open-ended future.

The traditional ways and logics have proved to be not flexible enough to embrace and to adapt to the complexity of our present situation. What we introduce here is the ecologic approach which will help us to deal with a variety of different fields and, at the same time, to cast new light on old unsolved problems.

Journey from South America to United States of America needs a lot of determination from a person to run it despite obstacles. There is nothing that can protect them from hunger and violence, all they have is hope. They travel in the shade to avoid danger. Above all, they need to rest and feel save. It is not about fences and walls but consciousness that they are not alone but there is whole community of people like them.

Vistula is a main and the the same time biggest Polish river. Despite the fact, that its crossing through main Polish cities, its banks are constituted mainly by natural and virgin environment. This rare phenomenon creates as much potential as controversies across all involved institutions discourse. Contrasting ides for facilitating rivers potential, both those preservative and liberal, consequently reaches the narrow throat of over formalized official procedure. Presented design is a proposition of fragmented and non-invasive architectural intervention at the Vistula’s river bank.

School buildings are shaped depending on different attitudes towards children education. What is common to most of them are vivid colors, impulses, complicated forms, used to stimulate pupils imagination and open their minds to different factors. But what if all those determinants don’t work as expected but distract students, because pupils are mentally retarded. Building for those children should be based on simple, commonly known phenomenons that could demonstrate, visualize situations or problems that they are learning about.  

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Info hub was defined as a space where information is exchanged in a spontaneus manner as a site effect of human interactions. Environmental demands for such an interactions were core problem to be solve in the design. Complex informational model containing relation between environmental data ( environmental analysis software and physical observation ), program demands and side tectonic was develope as a base for agent base simulation. Agents moving around the site left traces of their behavior affected by the model. This so called “patch traces” were informative base for the design.

Imagine a space where relation product - customer is reversed, where observation and decision making process seems to be an attribute of an object and not a person who is willing to purchase a product, where perception is shifted just as while looking at the world through magical glasses.