ab-USO was a collective focused on Public Space. It has been active between 2014 and 2016.

In two years we developed nine interventions while finishing the faculty of architecture. The collective took form after WAAARK and soon we explored different approaches in the design and in the building process of public and common spaces: we won a grant from Estate Fiorentina 2014 with FreeMatch, we organized a participatory process and a crowdfunding for Ri-creazioni, designed and built an installation during an occupation that became legal afterwords, participated in a show organized by Pecci Museum and designed the setup for the temporary opening of Sant’Orsola. In this page you can find a summary of each work.

The co-founders of ab-USO, in alphabetical order, were: Annalisa Petito, Costanza Farolfi, Emma Verdelli, Enrico Tomassini, Francesco Caneschi, Gianluca Ricciolini, Irene Ferrara, Lorenzo Gili, Nicholas Page. Martina Grifoni collaborated in some projects.

In the beginning of 2017 many of us went around Europe for new experiences and after that period the association Hub-uso was founded by some former members.