Computing, Craft, Climate and Country

This article explores the productive synergies between design for climate and design for Country, and the ways that computation can contribute meaningfully. Our context is a world experiencing multiple crises (climate, biodiversity loss, equity) and a discipline (architecture) that has historically reinvented itself by embracing the transformative potential demanded (and offered) by such challenges.

Instant Culture

As architects, we hoard cultural information: maps, drawings, books, stories, pictures, notes, letters, sketches. We hope that through our analysis, this information can be meaningfully composed, and that together, our collected fragments can speak to a relevant culture or history in built form.

Country-Centric Design and Technology

Australia’s First Peoples live a relational cultural framework binding us to the natural world and each other. Lived experience is not an abstract philosophy, shaping communities and world views.