in 2018 we were invited to participate in a travelling exhibition curated by Architecture, Design and Art Practice Training Research (ADAPT-r project), a partnership of seven European universities including RMIT Europe and Bond University in Queensland.  DAP-r explains the brief of the ‘Practice in a box’ as such:

A collection of archival A4 boxes displaying the work and practice of emerging and established architecture and design practitioners, the exhibition addresses a core question: what knowledge and insights do creative practitioners produce? To reply to and articulate this core question, the project invites early stage and established practitioners to create within a box an artefact – a model, sound, object, video, installation – which embodies or expresses the knowledge their research produces. Accompanied by a textual explication, each artefact is the result of a research-making process, while the box itself represents the practice-based PhD model as a container or framework within which practitioners can build their research.

KGA Submission

The thunder was surprisingly far away – it was one of those night time electrical storms that has the sky dancing with lightning.  It was so wild and raw you could feel it running down your neck. 

I snuck into the children’s bedroom to make sure they hadn’t woken up.  Our son was asleep but our daughter was stood up with the curtain behind her back and her face pressed to the window.  Where her body had pushed the curtain away from the sill, the brilliant flashes of lightning illuminated her pink pyjamas and the floor around her feet.  I could imagine her wide eyes taking in the spectacle beyond.  At that moment it was just the storm and her.

Our buildings – mainly houses, are informed by many different threads and narratives interwoven into a moment where they find form. The thread that links the occupant to the site, place and beyond is a recurring and pressing one; the idea that Architecture can be an armature to the poetics of the universe, curating the space between the curtain and storm.

Our ‘artefact’ is an armature through which to view some images of our work and process.  A personal experience that may provide a connection to our intentions, care and craft of making.

Image 1, 2, 6 taken from the DAP-r website

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