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URL:https://sites.udmercy.edu/campusconnection/events/25439/
SUMMARY:SACD presents Architectures of Repair: ‘PIVOT Coopérative d’Ar
 chitecture\,’ next up in its lecture series
DESCRIPTION:Detroit Mercy's School of Architecture &amp\; Community Develop
 ment (SACD) will host Egest Gjinali &amp\; Colleen Lashuk on Monday\, Marc
 h 30\, for the next installment of its lecture series with a presentation 
 titled PIVOT Coopérative d'Architecture. This lecture explores what it me
 ans to build an architectural practice grounded in collective responsibili
 ty\, democratic governance and care for existing social and built environm
 ents.\n\nThe lecture will be held in the Loranger Architecture Building Ex
 hibition Space from 4:30-6 p.m. All are invited to this event.\n\nThrough 
 the work of Pivot Architecture Cooperative\, the lecture frames architectu
 re as a practice of repair—engaging with existing buildings\, institutio
 ns and communities. Instead of focusing on architecture as the production 
 of space\, it considers how practice can operate within and transform the 
 processes that shape our social and built environments.\n\nFounded in Mont
 real in 2017 as Quebec’s first worker-owned architecture cooperative\, P
 ivot operates through shared decision-making and collective stewardship of
  the practice. Authority and responsibility are distributed among its memb
 ers\, shaping both how projects are designed and how the office itself is 
 run. This structure encourages long-term engagement with partners and a de
 sign process rooted in dialogue\, negotiation and participation.\n\nThe le
 cture will present a range of projects—including social and cooperative 
 housing\, community facilities\, shelters and cultural spaces—showing ho
 w architectural work can respond to complex social conditions and underser
 ved communities. Alongside these projects\, the speakers will reflect on w
 hat it means to practice architecture as a cooperative: how shared governa
 nce influences design process and promotes participatory design\, how resp
 onsibility is distributed and how alternative organizational models can op
 en new possibilities for the profession.\n\nGjinali is a co-founding archi
 tect of Pivot Architecture Cooperative. Trained at École Polytechnique F
 édérale de Lausanne\, he began his career in Switzerland before relocati
 ng to Montreal\, where he helped establish the cooperative model that stru
 ctures the practice today. Gjinali has also represented Albania as co-comm
 issioner of its national pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. His
  work brings an international lens to questions of socially engaged archit
 ecture and the role design can play in supporting communities.\n\nAlso a c
 o-founding architect at Pivot\, Lashuk 's training bridges architecture an
 d anthropology. With deep roots in community housing work\, she has spent 
 her career designing alongside people whose needs are often overlooked\, i
 ncluding communities living with mental health and disability-related chal
 lenges. A skilled facilitator\, Lashuk has developed methods for drawing n
 on-architects meaningfully into the design process\, treating community in
 put not as consultation but as a core design tool.
LOCATION:Loranger Architecture Exhibition Space\, 4001 W. McNichols Road\, 
 Detroit\, Michigan\, 48221\, United States
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