ISSSresearch&architecture - Independent Structure for Sustainable Space research - is a studio founded and directed by Ingrid Sabatier and Stephan Schwarz. The research of ISSS is dealing with architecture, contemporary urban dynamics and the role and power of people's engagement within the production of their urban space. Permanently linking research and the practice on the ground ISSS key competences are architecture and urbanism as well as participatory design processes in order to develop research-based, holistic concepts and sustainable spatial solutions at all scales.