At Work With was a project conceived as a live working office and residency programme occupying the Nordic Pavilion at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale, open from 26 August to 21 November 2010. The project was initiated by Tor Lindstrand (Economy) together with Anders Johansson and Erik Wingquist (Testbedstudio), and was commissioned by the Swedish Museum of Architecture.

Rather than presenting finished work, At Work With transformed the pavilion into an active workspace, a place for seminars, screenings, model-making, discussions, projections and improvised encounters. Conceived as a continuous staging of meetings between practitioners and visitors, it operated simultaneously as a working office and a social meeting point, with exchange and conversation about architectural practice at its core.

Over the course of twelve weeks, the pavilion hosted thirteen different Nordic and Scandinavian practices, each in residence for one week at a time. These included Testbedstudio, 0047, XYM, Svensk Standard, Economy, Conditions, Uglycute, Schalk/Sustersic, Byggstudio, Rintala Eggertsson, Boing Being, and Fantastic Norway, together involving some 75 architects from 12 different practices. Each office brought its own working methods, programmes and energy to the space: Rintala Eggertsson built a full-scale timber structure on the pavilion floor; Byggstudio created an interactive garden rearranged daily by visitors; Conditions turned a neighbouring exhibition into a live competition judged by the public; and Boing Being staged a final performance evening that wove drawing, construction and automated poetry into a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk.

A daily-updated blog documented the project throughout, attracting readers from 78 countries. The project directly embodied the overarching theme of that year's Biennale — People Meet in Architecture — proposing architecture not as a product to be displayed, but as something that happens in the space between people, in the daily rhythms of work, collaboration and conversation.

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