THE OPEN WORKSHOP is a multidisciplinary design workshop focused on critically re-examining the concept of an open work, first posited by Umberto Eco in 1962. As cities, beliefs, and values become increasingly pluralistic; the open work forms a template for providing openness to a work, thus making it designed for no one specifically and everyone simultaneously. Architecture and Urbanism is conceived to allow each individual citizen to project the final pieces of meaning and complete the work. The Open Workshop is committed to the design for Plurality.

NEERAJ BHATIA is the founder of The Open Workhsop, co-director of InfraNet Lab, and Visiting Wortham Fellow at Rice University. He received his Masters of Architecture + Urban Design from MIT where he was studying on a Fulbright Fellowship. He has worked for Eisenman Architects, Coop Himmelblau, Bruce Mau Design, OMA, ORG and Lateral Office. Neeraj previously taught at the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto. He is co-editor of -Arium: Weather + Architecture (with Jürgen Mayer H., Hatje Cantz Publishing, 2009), Bracket [Soft Systems] (with Lola Sheppard, Actar, 2011) and co-author of Pamphlet Architecture 30: Coupling (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). InfraNet Lab is a non-profit research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics and The Open Workshop is a design office examining the project of pluralism.

CURRENT TEAM:
Mary Casper
Zack Glennon
Sonia Ramundi
Fei-Ling Tseng

PREVIOUS TEAM MEMBERS:
Tracy Bremer
Alicia Hergenroeder
Brian Lee

COLLABORATORS
Mark Baechler
Alexander D'Hooghe
Reto Geiser
Jürgen Mayer H.
Noemi Mollet
Maya Przybylski
Lola Sheppard
Mason White



FOR PROJECT INQUIRIES please contact info@theopenworkshop.ca