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From graduating with MArch (Prof) at the University of Auckland, I have been working within the field of design technology education. As a school technician and graduate media tutor, I continue to strengthen my skills in the industry CAD softwares and digital fabrication machines while tutoring students.
My interest in architecture lies in creating forms that draw interactive and meaningful connections between human and site. My portfolio explores educational performance spaces to human wearable installations.
While I currently work in education, I aspire to pursue an architectural career and am keen to connect, learn, and grow within a professional community.
My interest in architecture lies in creating forms that draw interactive and meaningful connections between human and site. My portfolio explores educational performance spaces to human wearable installations.
While I currently work in education, I aspire to pursue an architectural career and am keen to connect, learn, and grow within a professional community.
Looking For a Mentor
As an architectural graduate working within education, I am seeking a mentor who can help me translate my current skills and experiences as a strong foundation to approach the architectural industry. I would appreciate guidance to frame my experience as an asset during interviews and navigate my transition to professional practice. I am also interested in opportunities overseas and would like to know how to stand out to future employers.
I am keen to meet someone who is open, experienced and willing to share insights on the challenges and opportunities on starting an architectural career.
Showcase
The Pohutukawa Library
The project focused on envisioning a wearable representation of a chosen public space in Auckland and expressing a spatial connection with it. The wearable embodiment becomes an architectural ‘model’ within an exhibition map of Tamaki Makaurau.
The Auckland Library is quiet yet it stands out in the busy CBD for people to enjoy browsing books. From creating the crinoline as a bookshelf, the costumed body stores knowledge and facts within. With a mobility feature, the library moves across the exhibition map showing the spread of libraries in the region. A dress is donned over the crinoline to stand out and resemble the striking Pohutukawa flower, an icon of the Auckland Libraries
The Auckland Library is quiet yet it stands out in the busy CBD for people to enjoy browsing books. From creating the crinoline as a bookshelf, the costumed body stores knowledge and facts within. With a mobility feature, the library moves across the exhibition map showing the spread of libraries in the region. A dress is donned over the crinoline to stand out and resemble the striking Pohutukawa flower, an icon of the Auckland Libraries
Year of Completition
2022
Type
Exhibition Work | Wearable Structure
Role
Costume Designer, Maker and Model
The Learning Anatomy: A Performative School of Architectural Bodies
Architecture schools use the framework of the design process for students to experience the thinking of an architect – communicating the narrative of their design from concept to refinement. The process seems simple, but there are hidden complexities of experimentation, problem-solving and critique that blur the process and perception of architecture schools into a mysterious uncertainty. Social Theorist Donald Schon stated, “One of the things that really bugs me about architectural education is that a lot of things are really implicit, remain under the surface and are not talked about.” Further, Architect Rivka Oxman stated there is “a neglect of attention to thinking in design as a legitimate pedagogical content.”
Though uncertainty seems intimidating when the building outcome is expected, it can also be viewed as an opportunity to explore the physical and playful actions of design thinking that strengthen the process and the building design. Arguably, architecture school teaches the performance of design thinking. The Learning Anatomy: A Performative School of Architectural Bodies seeks to demonstrate how the physical body and its movement can be a learning tool to perform design thinking and how the interaction with these learning tools can craft an alternative architecture school to experience the design process collaboratively.
For more info: https://modos.co.nz/featured-projects/the-learning-anatomy-a-performative-school-of-architectural-bodies
Though uncertainty seems intimidating when the building outcome is expected, it can also be viewed as an opportunity to explore the physical and playful actions of design thinking that strengthen the process and the building design. Arguably, architecture school teaches the performance of design thinking. The Learning Anatomy: A Performative School of Architectural Bodies seeks to demonstrate how the physical body and its movement can be a learning tool to perform design thinking and how the interaction with these learning tools can craft an alternative architecture school to experience the design process collaboratively.
For more info: https://modos.co.nz/featured-projects/the-learning-anatomy-a-performative-school-of-architectural-bodies
Year of Completition
2022
Type
Thesis | Education Space | Installation
Role
Designer (Set and Costume), Garment-maker and Event planner
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