Future Method Studio

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*architecture nerd alert*
The National Standard of Competency of Architects has just been updated. It now mandates that architecture graduates must:

'Understand how to implement culturally responsive and meaningful engagement processes that respect the importance of Country and reciprocal relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples across architectural services.'

I am very curious to see how the Uni's respond to this. 'engagement'?, respect for Country in the Built Environment?, how is reciprocity practiced in a way that accounts for and makes redress for historical and structural inequality? I could write an essay on each of these topics.

2021 NSCA Performance Criteria | Architects Accreditation Council Of Australia Performance Criteria describe discrete aspects of architectural practice and are organised under the Units of Competency. Each Unit has a corresponding set of criteria for each of the three competency profiles.

Always Was Always Will Be Aboriginal Land.
We are looking forward to speaking at this symposium led by 2021 Pritzker Prize Laureates Lacatan & Vassal. Follow link for full program and to register. Thursday April 29th 12:30pm at USYD and online.

Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates lead symposium Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning (SADP) will host the inaugural Rothwell Chair Symposium this April. Curated by SADP and Rothwell Co-Chairs, the 2021 Pritzker Prize Laureates, Lacaton & Vassal, the symposium will focus on international and local social and affordable housing design...

Itching for this...
SET PIECE // WORLD PREMIERE
TICKETS ON SALE TOMORROW
Set Design by Future Method

From the acclaimed makers of The Second Woman, Set Piece sits at the intersection of theatre, film and dance. An exploration of intergenerational feeling, desire and connection.

Set Piece examines intergenerational le***an coupledom.

Genre bending and full of wit, it shifts from realism to fantasy and from the clichéd to the inventive, using film techniques, theatre citations, pulp fiction, interview material and improvisations to explore q***r erotic dynamics.

With saturated lighting, a cinematic score, close-up filmed images, and a lush set creating synesthetic pleasure, Set Piece is an evolving exploration of desire and intimacy.

CREATIVE TEAM

Co-creators: Anna Breckon and Nat Randall
Director: Anna Breckon
Writers: Anna Breckon and Nat Randall in collaboration with Andrew Brophy
Performers: Dina Panozzo, Nat Randall, Carly Sheppard and Anni Finsterer

Set design: Genevieve Murray (Future Method Studio)

Choreographer: Victoria Hunt

Lighting design: Karen Norris

Music Composition: Nina Buchanan

Sound Design: Daniel Herten

Cinematographer: Ross Turley

Lead camera operator: EO Gill

Music Composition: Nina Buchanan

Sound Design: Daniel Herten

Light sculpture: Megan Hanson

Video work on TV: Matthew Griffin

Hair and Makeup Design: Sophie Roberts

Intimacy Choreographer: Danielle Micich

Intimacy Consultant: Michela Carattini

Dramaturg: Miranda Harcourt

Production Manager: Gordon Rymer

Producer and tour manager: Fenn Gordon for Tandem

Sections of script devised by Paul Blenheim, Genevieve Giuffre, Sapidah Kian, Peter Paltos and Carly Sheppard.

RISING: Set Piece An exploration of intergenerational feeling, desire and connection.

Awabakal Designer & Cultural Practitioner Shellie Smith and Future Method Studio (Joel Spring) are pretty excited to be working together on a year long project in Newcastle. Pavilion of Sand works to re-imagine the civic centre of Newcastle, a formal static colonial artifice, as a landscape of change. Sand becomes structure, ballast, shelter and seating. It becomes a space for dance, cultural practice, conversation and performance. A place in which stories about this Salt Water Country can be shared. Excited to launch the full program and pavilion on October to coincide with TINA. Follow the link for details about workshops happening this weekend.

Pavilion of Sand The civic centre of Newcastle, as a formal and static colonial artifice, is being re-imagined as a landscape of change. Come and get a glimpse of this exciting project in the making.

The UTS Land and Justice Research Hub are doing some important work connecting researchers and bringing discourse to areas that aren't given the light of day in Universities. Follow their work and get along to some of their events! This one looks really special.

ILJRH Workshop - The benefits of Aboriginal land repossession Join us for presentations by leading academics and experts working in the field of the Aboriginal land estate and alternate development.

We see Academics post their photo with Bruce Pascoe, desperate for the social credit points, then continue with their eurocentric thinking, eurocentric teaching, eurocentric practice. Their fear of NOT knowing something, their fear of NOT being an authority, their fear of being exposed as racist is what they need to focus on. Thank you Bruce for calling it: 'The reason for the national apathy to racial politics in this country stems, I believe, from the national ignorance of Aboriginal culture and economy and that ignorance has to be laid in part at the feet of our learning institutions.'

Australia: Temper and Bias The deputy leader of the Liberal Party, Julie Bishop, supported the idea in 2006 that Aboriginal children should not be taught their own culture and language because it would re**rd them. Her fellow ministers and advisers weighed in with the opinion that Aboriginal culture was flawed because we hadn...

Episode 1 of the Country & Cities Series is out on CityRoad Pod. It's the 1st in a a 5 part series we've done for CityRoadPod and this one is about 'the work property does to materialize the settler colonial city and its specific relations of power. [Libby Porter and Naama Blatman Thomas] identify three faces of property — property as object, as redress and as land' (Placing Property: Theorizing the Urban from Settler Colonial Cities)
'This a truth telling, of sorts, about how urban planning and built environment professions are implicated in the settler colonial process.' (Dallas Rogers) Colonisation hasn't stopped and Architecture and the Built environment Professions are complicit. Get listening!

36. Country And Cities I Episode 1 of the Country and Cities Series This a truth telling, of sorts, about how urban planning and built environment professions are implicated in the settler colonial process, with Libby Porter

I think this is the first write up on us! Excited to be heading to Naarm on Friday for our three talks. Also wanna head up to Ararat to join the protests! give us a shout if anyone is heading up and has a space in their car.

Future Method: Land, Treaty, Property | Assemble Papers Future Method Studio work across architecture, installation and speculative projects. Led by architecture practitioners and pedagogues Joel Sherwood-Spring and Genevieve Murray, Future Method is a unique practice in the Australian architecture landscape to put participation and decolonisation at the...

Very excited that one of our talks for Melbourne Design Week is listed in the Top 10 talks by Landscape Australia. We have Libby Porter and Lidia Thorpe joining us THIS Sunday, 2pm at Testing Grounds, to talk Land, Property and Treaty: Are they able to co-exist and if so then how? We can't wait to have these two incredibly strong voices joining forces. If you can't make it to Melbourne the talks will be broadcast on Survival Guide in the coming months.

Editor's picks: Top events at Melbourne Design Week 2019 Unfolding over 11 days in March, Melbourne Design Week 2019 will offer more than 200 events across Melbourne and Geelong. LandscapeAU rounds up the top landscape-related events of the program.