[Episode 6] Subjunctive Space
How does Architecture resist its own history of erasing the past?
In attempting to challenge architectures notions of imposition, this studio seeks to communicate Dharawal interpretations of place. Led through these new conceptions of place by Shannon Foster, an indigenous knowledge keeper, students re-learn how to understand site by producing work that acts as a communicator of culture in telling the hidden histories of Sydney's indigenous people. How can architecture re-position itself to work alongside indigenous comprehensions of place?
[Episode 5] Decolonising Architectures of Power: From Prisons to Refuges
How are architects and architecture complicit in structural racism?
This studio, led by Genevieve Murray and Joel Spring of Future Method, works in partnership with the Mudgin-Gal Women’s Council on a real project: a refuge for indigenous women leaving the penal system. The studio requires self-reflection and a shift in modes of architectural practice in order to develop cultural competency in working with aboriginal communities. We follow this studio as students analyse the mechanisms of power and control that architects enable and work as a group to develop a proposal in consultation with community.
[Episode 4] Architecture Under Dispute
What is an architectural occupation?
There is a contradiction when designing an occupation, between the temporal nature of protest and the stability architecture. We follow a project by Lindsay Mulligan and Grace Dwyer as they reimagine the capacities of architecture and design an architectural occupation for the feminist movement in Argentina.
[Episode 3] Architecture of Fear and Pleasure
How do fear and pleasure manifest in Sydney’s urban condition?
The studio, led by Endriana Audisho, demands students to understand the nature of Sydney’s nightlife precincts in order to design a nightclub that challenges and resists the current climate. We joined a guided tour led by students, who uncover their analysis of each site. We also heard discussions around the definition of security, freedom and its effects on the public realm, led by Andrew Benjamin. tious topic.
[Episode 2] A Beautiful Intervention
What is Beauty?
Subjectivity and personal tastes are inescapable aspects of architecture. We follow the very beginning of Casey Bryant’s studio, where students engage in discussions around what they believe to be beautiful and how to develop their own architectural style. We also listen in at the Mid Semester Tutor Reviews, which raises a whole range dilemmas as students and academics tackle this content.