Okkito "Okkito is a parody of housing corporations. It interrogates influences on land speculation and relationship between housing- corporation and individual, where urbanites are regarded as users. Okkito, criticizes corporation’s not having a social or a grounded philosophy of housing policy, and additionally their approach to the liberal network of estate, competing with private and foreign companies for land; their in-between position through reflections in the urban fabric. In the postmodern and slippery context of today, in betweenness is deciphered through reflections of political decisions on urban space and housing policies. Okkito aims to explore and negotiate the potential of an imageless and unmediated form of housing. It brings into open multiple meanings of dwelling as a humanistic need and a self-organizing system. Between privatization and commodification of land, it questions the condition of contemporary house and urbanite and effects of de...
architect, PhD