Meanwhile City is a civic proposal for generating alternative understandings of the city. Positioning play, movement and daily life at the centre of a regional planning department, the project situates knowledge as subjective and planning as a public, collective activity.

Temporarily occupying Turin's abandoned 'Palace of Work', a timber superstructure suspends straw bale buildings above the ground on lightweight platforms. The proposal transforms a dormant site into a space for civic life, occupying the period between abandonment and redevelopment. Designed for disassembly and reuse at other disused sites, it engages multiple temporalities: reinterpreting the Palazzo's present condition, instigating public planning participation, and contributing to future urban transformations.

At multiple scales, the proposal challenges participatory planning processes that position the public as passive recipients of information. Instead, movement and activity become means of generating individual perspectives on urban space. Through play and tactile construction, the architecture invites understanding through participation, adaptation and direct engagement with the built environment.