OUD+ featured in the “Co-Habitats, How we do live together” book

Bekim Ramku and OUD+Architects are among the selected contributors to Co-Habitats how we do live together book, edited by Hashim Sarkis and published by Marsilio Editori.

Co-Habitats brings together the work of architects, researchers, and collectives invited to reflect on one of the most pressing questions of our time — How will we live together? — and to propose frameworks for coexistence in an increasingly interconnected, unequal, and climate-challenged world. The book expands the scope of the exhibition into a durable discursive platform, pairing visual installations with critical texts that interrogate social, political, and spatial conditions across diverse global contexts.

Bekim Ramku’s contribution — developed through OUD+Architects and in collaboration with the Kosovo Architecture Foundation — forms a significant part of this dialogue. Situated within the Co-Habitats thematic section, the work engages architectural research with the lived realities of Prishtina, interrogating the production, dissolution, and potential reconfiguration of public space in a post-conflict capital.

The contribution traces the city’s public realm as an “archipelago” of spatial and social fragments — cultural institutions, civic grounds, modernist landmarks, informal zones, and infrastructural voids — each shaped by histories of rapid transformation, contested memory, and competing notions of collective life. By foregrounding this archipelagic condition, the work challenges conventional urban models and proposes a reading of public space as a network of dispersed, yet interrelated, civic territories.

In Co-Habitats, Bekim Ramku and OUD+Architects’ text and visual narratives serve to:

• Illuminate Prishtina’s civic topography through analytical mapping and architectural interpretation.
• Critically engage with collective memory and the politics embedded in public spaces shaped by both socialist planning and post-war neoliberal transformations.
• Propose speculative frameworks for reimagining public life and coexistence beyond hegemonic or monolithic urban paradigms.
• Situate Prishtina within global discourses on post-conflict urban resilience and civic commons, connecting local conditions to broader questions of coexistence addressed throughout the volume.

Their contribution underscores the Biennale’s central inquiry by showing how coexistence is not only a question of design, but also of shared histories, contested territories, and the ongoing negotiation of communal life. In doing so, it enriches Co-Habitats as both a catalogue of the exhibition’s ideas and a lasting reference for architects, theorists, and urban thinkers.

By placing Prishtina’s spatial and social complexities into conversation with global practices and critical frameworks, the contribution by Bekim Ramku and OUD+Architects reaffirms the relevance of context-specific architectural research in discussions about how we might — collectively — inhabit the future.