Studio-Method, founded by Riel Bessai and Pedro Daniel Pantaleone is a research-based Architecture, Design, and Art practice based in Rotterdam. Their work ranges from architectural interventions to spatial installations, theoretical explorations, and product design. The studio focuses on exploring innovative practices for reusing materials and a radical commitment to sustainable construction in response to the urgency of scarcity that is asking us to quickly rethink our material culture.

A central theme in their work involves questioning the possibilities of Architecture and Community in a context characterized by material depletion, transcending the traditional perception of waste as a mere technical problem. To this end, the practice is developing Contingent Design as an alternative methodology that reimagines value systems of control, power, and extraction in Design to foster convivial and communal practices of care-taking and repair, favoring a process-oriented working method of adaptation and appropriation of common resources.