Common Ground Practice
Common Ground Practice is a collaboration between Georgina Pantazopoulou (Greece) and Ilaria Palmieri (Italy). They met during their Master’s studies at the Interior Architecture department of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK).
At the moment of their encounter they were engaging with participatory practices in the spatial realm to contest hostile domestic living conditions, developing specific research tools to engage with a different vision of architecture in working in refugee centers and patriarchal domestic environments. Once they completed their studies they felt the necessity to develop those practices. With Common Ground Practice they hosted participatory workshops at De Voorkamer in Utrecht, at the AZC ( Asylum seekers’ centers) Den Helder and Leersum, at the Milano Design Week 2024. They are co-authored and editor of the publication project They asked me to design a house, I asked them to design a home which will be published at the beginning of 2025 with the support of Stimuleringsfonds.
Georgina Pantazopoulou
Georgina Pantazopoulou is a multidisciplinary architect, designer, and researcher. She explores themes of domesticity, gender and interior architecture education and is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Antwerp, with a dissertation titled The Approach of the Domestic Environment within Interior Architecture Education: Towards an Intersectional Feminist Framework of Objects, Pedagogies, and Practices. She holds a Master’s in Interior Architecture from the Royal Academy of Art The Hague (2022). Her graduation project, Her Practice: Biases, Glitches, and Oppressive Values or a Happy Domesticity, received the Stroom Young Talent Award (2022) and was also presented at Milan Design Week 2023. She co-founded the research and design duo Common Ground Practice focusing on creating a safe space for marginalized communities and establishing a new dominant memory in spatial practice. She is co-editor of the publication project They asked me to design a house, I asked them to design a home.
Ilaria Palmieri
Ilaria Palmieri is a spatial designer, interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of minor and migrant architectures, non - formal dwelling, home making and participatory action research. Her work has been exhibited at the Dutch Design Week, at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, at What makes a home Demo Days in Eindhoven, among others. She co-founded the research and design duo Common Ground Practice focusing on creating a safe space for marginalized communities and establishing a new dominant memory in spatial practice. Recently Ilaria has been involved as a research assistant at V8 Architects in Rotterdam, contributing to the exploration of the mental metabolism of the Venice Architecture Biennale. She also served as a teacher assistant at the Master Interior Architecture in the Royal Academy of Art and is editor of the online Italian magazine Tre Sequenze. She is co-editor of the publication project They asked me to design a house, I asked them to design a home.
