Founded by architects Marion de St Blanquat and Frederik Mads Svendsen, Studio Coquille develops design practices that interweave architecture, ecology, and co-creation. Active since 2015, the studio is distinguished by its interdisciplinary approach, engaging biologists, researchers, artists, and local communities with the aim of generating dynamic and sensorial ecosystems in which multiple species can coexist. 
The workshop The Habitable Skin: Practicing Porous Coexistences explores architecture as a space of coexistence between human and more-than-human, beginning with the threshold that both separates and connects interior and exterior: the skin of the building. The workshop will focus on understanding which species live in Venice and explore alternative futures of coexistence - looking at architectural landscapes and how we inhabit the city - and using for case study the building and surroundings of Scuola Piccola Zattere. No longer understood as a neutral barrier or a device for climate control, the building skin becomes an expanded, inhabitable zone traversed by ecological, material, and sensory relationships. Here, the skin becomes a temporal and relational device—a draft in which forms of shared inhabitation are negotiated and in which the role of architecture is redefined, shifting from an extractive and divisive practice to a possible tool of care and mediation.

The workshop is part of the public program The Museum in Draft: Provisional Formats for Multispecies Mediation, curated by Lisa Andreani.