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SIBYL BLOOMFIELD
Sibyl Bloomfield (Waikato 
Tainui, Ngāti Maniapoto 
and Ngāi Te Rangi) has a 
Bachelor of Design (Interior 
Architecture) and Master 
of Landscape Architecture 
(Professional) from Victoria 
University of Wellington. She 
is a landscape architect and 
lecturer, currently working 
in the School of Architecture 
at Unitec Institute of 
Technology, Auckland. 
Her research interests 
include climate change and 
coastal communities, land 
stewardship, indigenous 
concepts of land ownership, 
resilience, community 
development, and pedagogy/
design education.

LUCIANO BRINA
Luciano Brina is an 
architect for the Faculty of 
Architecture and Urbanism, 
La Plata National University, 
Argentina. He is an alumnus 
of the Strelka Institute for 
Media, Architecture and 
Design, Moscow. He has been 
a visiting professor at the 
School of Architecture and 
Urban Studies, Torcuato Di 
Tella University. He is founder 
of Abiogenesis, a design 
research practice focused 
on speculative cartography 
and post-carbon futures. He 
has published his research             
in ARQ.

JEANETTE BUDGETT
Jeanette Budgett is a 
registered architect and 
senior lecturer at Unitec 
Institute of Technology, 
where she teaches design 
and technology in the Master 
of Architecture programme. 
In previous research, she 
has investigated digital 
technologies, mission-
period and modern colonial 
architecture of the Pacific, 
and New Zealand’s early 
twentieth-century urban 
architecture. She often 
collaborates with artist 
Allan McDonald. Her recent 
architectural practice 
includes a prefabricated 
transportable building   
(2020).

TIMOTHY BURKE
Dr Timothy Burke is a lecturer 
in the School of Architecture 
and the Built Environment 
at the University of 
Newcastle, NSW. He has been 
researching and teaching at 
Newcastle since 2015, and 
in 2019 was awarded a PhD 
in Architecture through 
creative practice research that 
examined the role of making, 
drawing, and play within 
design processes.

MICHAEL CHAPMAN
Dr Michael Chapman is 
a professor in the School 
of Architecture and the 
Built Environment at the 
University of Newcastle, 
NSW. His research explores 
architectural drawing and 
its theory and scholarship, 
specifically in relationship 
to politics, industrialisation,  
and modernism.

CARL DOUGLAS
Dr Carl Douglas is a senior 
lecturer in Spatial Design 
at Auckland University of 

Technology. His research 
circulates around two 
themes: unprofessional space 
(informal, ad-hoc, illicit, and 
amateur space-making); and 
procedural design techniques 
(cartography, design 
computation, abstraction, 
drawing, and intuition). He is 
currently affiliated with the 
Material Imaginaries Research 
Collective.

CHRIS FRENCH
Dr Chris French is a 
lecturer in Architecture and 
Contemporary Practice at 
ESALA, the University of 
Edinburgh. His research 
explores how forms of 
representation and the 
architectural project 
institute and perpetuate 
particular social imaginaries. 
He has collaborated with 
Maria Mitsoula on projects 
exploring the intersection of 
architecture and landscape, 
and the manner in which 
representational conventions 
frame and condition these 
intersections. They are 
founders of the atelier for 
architecture, Aporia, and are 
co-founders and editors of 
the architectural research-by-
design e-journal Drawing On.

JULIA GATLEY
Dr Julia Gatley is an associate 
professor of Architecture at 
the University of Auckland. 
She is an architectural 
historian, with research 
interests in twentieth-century 
architecture in general, and 
the history and heritage 
value of twentieth-century 
New Zealand architecture in 
particular. She has written 
widely on New Zealand 
architecture, and has 
published four books with 
Auckland University Press. 
With Andrew Douglas and 
Susan Hedges, she is an 
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Bachelor of Architectural 
Studies degree from Te Whare 
Wānanga o Wairaka/Unitec: 
Institute of Technology in 
2016. Karl then completed 
his architectural studies 
at Te Herenga Waka/
Victoria, University of 
Wellington, where he found 
a new interest in speculative 
architecture and drawing. 
Karl discovered the essay 
‘The Task of the Translator’ 
by Walter Benjamin in the 
summer before starting this 
research. This text became 
a key source from which to 
draw ideas. Completing the 
research in May 2021, Karl 
went on to gain his Master of 
Architecture (Professional) 
with distinction.

LOUISA KING 
Louisa King is a landscape 
architect with a Master of 
Landscape Architecture from 
RMIT University. Her research 
explores the potential of 
the picturesque and post-
representation thought for 
contemporary landscape 
practice. By applying critical 
materialist attention to the 
global, distributed influences 
of climate change, she 
examines the role of design 
within extreme climatic 
landscapes. This includes 
work with the Australian 
Antarctic Division to explore 
the collaborative potential of 
science and landscape design.

MARIA MITSOULA
Dr Maria Mitsoula is an 
architect, tutor, independent 
researcher, and architectural 
photographer. Her PhD in 
Architecture, conducted by 
design and funded by the 
Interprofessional Education 
Program (IPEP) and the 
Eugenides Foundation, 
explored marble as a complex 
material image-opsis central 
to various Athenian and Attic 

mythologies. With Chris 
French, Maria is a founder of 
the atelier for architecture, 
Aporia, and a cofounder 
and editor of the e-journal 
Drawing On.

JULES MOLONEY
Dr Jules Moloney is 
Associate Dean Research 
and Innovation at the School 
of Design, RMIT University. 
His research extends 
from architectural digital 
design to spatial design 
in a range of applications 
including exhibition design, 
installation art, simulation 
of human interaction, and 
the immersive analytics of 
spatial data. He is the author 
of Designing kinetics for 
architectural facades: State 
change (Routledge, 2009) and 
has published extensively on 
research through design.

TIM NEES
Tim Nees is a practising 
architect and a member 
of the Christchurch City 
Council Urban Design Panel. 
Recently he was architect-in-
residence at the University 
of Canterbury’s College of 
Engineering, was a founding 
director of Bartley Nees 
Gallery in Wellington, and 
has been a recipient of several 
New Zealand Institute of 
Architects (NZIA) national 
awards for excellence in 
architecture. He is a Fellow of 
the NZIA.

JULIEANNA PRESTON
Dr Julieanna Preston is 
Professor of Spatial Practice at 
Toi Rauwharangi/College of 
Creative Arts, Te Kunenga ki 
Pūrehuroa/Massey University 
and holds a PhD through 
artistic practice from RMIT. 
Her creative and scholarly 
practice draws from art, 

architecture, philosophy, 
material science, geology, 
and landscape studies. 
Her work is shown and 
published widely in the 
form of experimental live art 
performances, sound art, site-
responsive installations and 
interventions, moving image, 
and performance writing.

TAMSIN SALEHIAN 
Tamsin Salehian is a sessional 
lecturer teaching design, 
theory, and communication 
in the landscape architecture 
program at UTS, Sydney. Her 
research explores ontologies 
of place and multi-species 
collaborations, and she has 
a particular interest in the 
registrations of intersecting 
geographic bodies with 
ecological thinking.

MARK SOUTHCOMBE
Dr. Mark Southcombe is 
an Associate Professor in 
Architecture at Te Herenga 
Waka/Victoria, University 
of Wellington in the Te 
Kura Waihanga/School of 
Architecture. Mark is also 
a principal of Southcombe 
Architects. He is a design 
teacher in the Architecture 
and Interior Architecture 
programmes. He leads the 
Design Lab research cluster 
focused on design-led 
research theory and practices, 
and their testing through 
design in architectural and 
interdisciplinary realms. 
He is a co-author of the 
book Ecologies Design: 
Transforming Architecture, 
Landscape and Urbanism 
(2020). He has for many years 
supervised master’s research 
primarily focused on urbanity, 
landscape, and housing. Mark 
was Karl Hoffman’s principal 
supervisor for the thesis titled, 
Translating a Post Industrial 
Landscape: The Rebirth of 
Pukewā (2021).

ANASTASIA GLOBA 
Dr Anastasia Globa is a 
lecturer in Computational 
Design and Advanced 
Manufacturing at the 
University of Sydney. She 
works with digital media, 
including algorithmic design, 
advanced manufacturing, 
and virtual immersive 
environments. She is a 
member of the CoCoA 
research lab and SydneyNano 
research centre, with close 
involvement in the Computer 
Aided Architectural Design 
in Asia community and 
CAADRIA. She has experience 
in data visualisation and 
creating innovative concepts 
and prototypes, focusing 
on extended reality (XR) 
applications related to 
architectural design.

LAWRENCE HARVEY 
Lawrence Harvey has had 
a multifaceted practice-led 
research career as a sound 
designer, curator, performer, 
and artistic director while 
also producing traditional 
research outputs. He is 
artistic advisor to the RMIT 
Sonic Arts Collection, for 
which he curates high-profile 
public installations and 
performances, and leads 
academic publications on 
the collection. As director 
of RMIT’s SIAL Sound 
Studios, he has curated over 
30 public speaker orchestra 
concerts and has presented 
installations, theatre 
performances and concerts 
in Melbourne, Brisbane, 
Toronto, Seoul, the UK, 
Germany, and Holland.

KARL HOFFMANN
The author of this thesis, Karl 
Hoffmann, grew up in the 
township of Waihi, attending 
Waihi College from 2006-
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SIMON TWOSE
Dr Simon Twose is an 
architect and an associate 
professor in the School of 
Architecture, Te Herenga 
Waka | Victoria University of 
Wellington. His work focuses 
on drawing, particularly in 
the territories between art and 
architecture practices. His 
creative practice research has 
transitioned from traditional 
drawing and built projects 
to spatio-temporal drawing 
installations, combining 
physical and digital media. 
Twose has published and 
exhibited widely, including 
invited contributions to five 
Venice Architecture Biennales 
as well as the Prague 
Quadrennial of Performance 
Design and Space PQ15.

VERARISA UJUNG 
Verarisa Anastasia Ujung 
is a graduate of Universitas 
Indonesia and Victoria 
University of Wellington. She 
is a teaching and research 
assistant at the Department 
of Architecture, Faculty of 
Engineering, Universitas 
Indonesia. Her research 
focuses on the complex 
relations between interior 
and landscape. Her work 
has three main strands—
traversing interiority, weaving 
interiority, and framing 
interiority—demonstrating 
her interest in the potential 
for poetical encounters 
between interior and 
landscape.

YUE YU
Yue Yu received a Bachelor 
of Landscape Architecture 
(Honours) from Unitec 
Institute of Technology in 
2019. She is currently enrolled 
in the Master of Urban 
Planning (Professional) and 
Urban Design programme at 
the University of Auckland. 

Her research interests include 
urban resilience, sustainable 
housing, eco-districts, and 
urban morphology.