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Georgia Forbes-Smith with guests Matt Chan of Scale Architecture and Dr. Nathan Etherington
How can we reframe architecture’s sense of responsibility to be a tool for repair?
The aim of this research project is to reframe architecture’s agency through the theme of repair. It advocates for a greater role for architecture to actively engage with the social, cultural, economic and environmental repair of the context in which it is embedded.
Each student begins their research journey by being guided by the Connection to Country framework. Through investigative analysis of the site’s highly complex history and conditions, they establish their own research question within the theme of repair. Throughout the semester, students are required to simultaneously resolve their projects at contrasting scales – from the territorial to the architectural.
The site is on the traditional lands of the Wann clan, located at Wentworth Point on the southern shore of the Parramatta River. The reclaimed, industrial landscape is almost unrecognisable from its mud flat origins. Across Country, repair is needed.
