Radovic, Darko

co+labo Radović is an Architecture and Urban Design Research Laboratory at Keio University, Tokyo. co+labo is involved in education, research and design-research in the fields of architecture and urban design. Work of Darko Radović and his students focuses at the nexus between environmental and cultural sustainability and situations in which architecture and urban design overlap, where social starts to acquire physical form. Darko's coordinated investigations of the concepts of urbanity and sustainable development focus on culturally and environmentally diverse contexts which expose difference and offer encounter with the Other. He argues that neither the path of ecological nor that of cultural sustainability can be undertaken separately, and indeed that there is no viable future harmonious synthesis. On that basis, he has developed the concept of eco-urbanity (Routledge, 2009) which constitutes one of the hubs of recent co+labo research, teaching activities and publications, along with Radical Realism (2010), which is the credo of co+labo. Darko heads major international, interdisciplinary research project Measuring the non-Measurable (2011-14) which, with active involvement of students, focuses at finest qualitative nuances of spatial experience – at scales ranging from broadest urban to smallest architectural spaces.

• environmentally and culturally responsible architecture and urbanism