Actor-networks in Le Corbusier’s housing project at PessacActor-networks in Le Corbusier’s housing project at Pessac Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication Δημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτές 2015-11-182015enSocial housing, from modernist state funded programs to post-war industrial settlements, has long been associated with everyday practices of adaptation and transformation. Although Architectural theory rarely accounts for the incalculable, ad hoc practices by which domestic spaces in social housing are appropriated, used or misused by those who inhabit them, the social studies of technology, we argue, can provide possible methodological tools for such an investigation. We draw on Actor-Network Theory and its related concepts, to suggest that buildings can be conceptualized as spatiotemporal wholes, technological artefacts that mediate actions, inform social behavior while being continuously transformed by social activities (in terms of form, use and meaning). In the light of actor-network theory concepts, such as delegations, translations, inscriptions, de-inscriptions, re-inscriptions and so on, we discuss the well documented practices of appropriation and subsequent restoration of Le Corbusier’s housing estate built in 1926 at Pessac. Besides making a case for the importance of open design and the inclusion of users’ appropriation tactics in architectural research, we also suggest a methodological toolkit to inform contemporary social housing theory, design and research.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Fusion Journal6 Giannoudis Sokratis Γιαννουδης Σωκρατης Faculty of Arts, Charles Sturt University Cité Frugès (Pessac, France) Frugès, Quartiers modernes (Pessac, France) quartiers modernes fruges pessac france cite fruges pessac france fruges quartiers modernes pessac france