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Designing for Belonging A conversation on how can

Designing for Belonging
A conversation on how can designing with Country facilitate social cohesion and belonging.

Wednesday November 5
4-6pm followed by light refreshments
UTS Central (Building 2) Foyer

In a world of polarity, division and disconnection, we can sense a global urgency for design interventions that foster a sense of community, reinforce identity and facilitate belonging. Speakers will share the ways that Indigenous cultural values are being reflected in meaningful places and experiences, and discuss the challenges of reconciling Aboriginal cultural and socio-spatial relationships within the contemporary mechanisms of placemaking and planning.

From the individual to the neighbourhood, and the global, how can designing with Country facilitate social cohesion and belonging?

Speakers:
Alison Page (Dharawal/Yuin), Artist and Designer, Professor of Practice, School of Architecture @alison_joy_page
Emily McDaniel (Wiradjuri), Curator and Design Collaborator, Professor of Practice, School of Architecture @emilymc_d
Annie Tennant, Director Design and Place, Placemaking NSW, NSW Government @atennant72

Please register your attendance via the link in bio

We look forward to welcoming you to this conversation.

Last month our Master of Architecture Program Dire

Last month our Master of Architecture Program Director, Brooke Jackson, was invited to present at the Think Brick Awards as part of our ongoing industry collaboration with Think Brick, who contribute to ongoing material research learning in our Programs.

A big congratulations to Master of Architecture Students, Jonas Cerdervall Norton and Lamar Lockhart-Smith alongside Landscape Honours Student, Mac White, who were awarded the 2025 Think Brick Student Category Prize, for their collaborative project, Garguree. Utilising upcycled material technologies, working with Natural Brick Co., to forge a modular, paving sequence from the old race track that can facilitate the regeneration of the hanging swamps of the Blue Mountains, Dharug and Gundangurra Country. This work was a product of the cross-disciplinary Masters core, titled Swamp Studio, led by UTS SoA academics, Louisa King (Landscape) + Urtzi Grau (Architecture), working with Uncle David King, with speculations being presented back to the Community and Council, for input into ongoing regenerative strategies.

@thinkbrickaustralia @naturalbrick_ @jonas.ced @lockhartsmith @mac_white1 @brookiejackjack @urtzigrau @louisa_king_ @utslandscape

UTS School of Architecture at the Visualisation In

UTS School of Architecture at the Visualisation Institute Symposium 2025

29–30 October | UTS Buildings 6 + 11

As part of this year’s Visualisation Institute Symposium, the School of Architecture features prominently across two panels, convened by A/Prof Linda Matthews.

1. Counter-Mapping in Architectural Pedagogy
With Dr Endriana Audisho @endriana , Dr Louisa King @louisa_king_ Matte Ager-McConnell @matte.mcconnell & Yousef Ghazal @sef__g , and Tom Woodhead

This roundtable explores counter-mapping as a critical practice for unsettling dominant visual systems, foregrounding lived experience, collective memory and contested geographies. Student counter-mapping projects from UTS will be exhibited in the space.

2. Quantifying Quality – The Image and Its Impact on Perception
Moderated by Dr Mohammed Makki (UTS) @m_a_k_k_i and Jordan Mathers (SJB) @jordanmathers.jm with panellists including A/Prof Linda Matthews, Jonathan Knapp (SJB), Tamara Donnellan (ASPECT Studios), Estelle Grech (Committee for Sydney) and Ryan Cole (Burwood City Council). @aboutsjb @aspectstudios @committeeforsydney

This panel examines how perception, representation and lived experience shape our understanding of urban quality, beyond metrics and regulation.

Visit the link via our bio to register for these free events!

Please join UTS Architecture academics, alumni and

Please join UTS Architecture academics, alumni and friends Joanne Kinniburgh, Shannon Foster, Dana Marjan and Faid Ahmad, as they host this amazing event! #repost @bangawarra Country Performance Story: Staging critical spatial acts of political resistance with @doritahannah. Hosted by Bangawarra and @betchouf

Link in bio 🔗

“In these volatile times, it seems more urgent than ever to critically reconsider the necessary and entangled relationship between space and performance, between site and action, between object and event, between theatre as built form and theatre as art form.” Dorita Hannah, 2023

Join us for an immersive, interactive gathering in the PACT Theatre that explores marginalised feminist critiques through the staging of critical spatial acts of political resistance. This event will bring together a dynamic mix of thinkers, creators, and changemakers to interrogate how space - physical, social, and symbolic - is shaped by, and responds to, systems of power, identity, and resistance.

Through a series of performances, installations, conversations and interactive art-making, we will collectively examine the potential of space-making practices that disrupt, reimagine, and reclaim. Whether you are a researcher, artist, activist, performer or interested community member, this event invites you to participate in a living dialogue on how we resist, build, and occupy space, together.

Expect thought-provoking work at the intersection of art, activism, and academia. Expect to be challenged. Expect to create. Expect to connect.

It was wonderful hosting Dr. Apostolos Kyriazis @a

It was wonderful hosting Dr. Apostolos Kyriazis @akyriaz_p, and his students from Abu Dhabi University at UTS last week!

Dr. Apostolos Kyriazis, Associate Professor of Architecture at Abu Dhabi University, recently visited the UTS School of Architecture with a group of his students as part of a collaborative teaching initiative with Dr. Mohammed Makki and his Master of Architecture students at UTS.

As part of their design studio, UTS students are exploring the conditions of urban quality in several Abu Dhabi suburbs and developing alternative design scenarios that respond to the region’s climatic, cultural, and geographic contexts. During their visit, Dr. Kyriazis and his students shared valuable insights into Abu Dhabi’s urban landscape, providing UTS students with a wealth of knowledge to inform their work.

Thank you again for making the long trip, and see you in Abu Dhabi in December!!
@aada_adu @abudhabiuni @utsdab @utsengage

This initiative is supported through the research and education partnership established in 2024 between UTS and Abu Dhabi University.

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

All

Highlights

9

Undergraduate

23

Masters

18

Exhibitions

4

Lectures

16

Publications

4

Research

2

Archive

0

Who we are

Bachelor of Design in Architecture

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Bachelor of Design in Interior Architecture

Masters of Architecture

Masters of Landscape Architecture & Masters of Research in Landscape Architecture

Masters of Research in Architecture

PhD

This is the online End of the Year Show (EOYS) of the School of Architecture at UTS, UTS FOUND HERE / MAIL / NEWSLETTER

Instagram

UTS School of Architecture

702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW 2007.

T. +61 2 9514 8024

This is the online End of the Year Show (EOYS) of the School of Architecture at UTS, UTS FOUND HERE / MAIL / NEWSLETTER

Instagram

Designing for Belonging A conversation on how can

Designing for Belonging
A conversation on how can designing with Country facilitate social cohesion and belonging.

Wednesday November 5
4-6pm followed by light refreshments
UTS Central (Building 2) Foyer

In a world of polarity, division and disconnection, we can sense a global urgency for design interventions that foster a sense of community, reinforce identity and facilitate belonging. Speakers will share the ways that Indigenous cultural values are being reflected in meaningful places and experiences, and discuss the challenges of reconciling Aboriginal cultural and socio-spatial relationships within the contemporary mechanisms of placemaking and planning.

From the individual to the neighbourhood, and the global, how can designing with Country facilitate social cohesion and belonging?

Speakers:
Alison Page (Dharawal/Yuin), Artist and Designer, Professor of Practice, School of Architecture @alison_joy_page
Emily McDaniel (Wiradjuri), Curator and Design Collaborator, Professor of Practice, School of Architecture @emilymc_d
Annie Tennant, Director Design and Place, Placemaking NSW, NSW Government @atennant72

Please register your attendance via the link in bio

We look forward to welcoming you to this conversation.

Last month our Master of Architecture Program Dire

Last month our Master of Architecture Program Director, Brooke Jackson, was invited to present at the Think Brick Awards as part of our ongoing industry collaboration with Think Brick, who contribute to ongoing material research learning in our Programs.

A big congratulations to Master of Architecture Students, Jonas Cerdervall Norton and Lamar Lockhart-Smith alongside Landscape Honours Student, Mac White, who were awarded the 2025 Think Brick Student Category Prize, for their collaborative project, Garguree. Utilising upcycled material technologies, working with Natural Brick Co., to forge a modular, paving sequence from the old race track that can facilitate the regeneration of the hanging swamps of the Blue Mountains, Dharug and Gundangurra Country. This work was a product of the cross-disciplinary Masters core, titled Swamp Studio, led by UTS SoA academics, Louisa King (Landscape) + Urtzi Grau (Architecture), working with Uncle David King, with speculations being presented back to the Community and Council, for input into ongoing regenerative strategies.

@thinkbrickaustralia @naturalbrick_ @jonas.ced @lockhartsmith @mac_white1 @brookiejackjack @urtzigrau @louisa_king_ @utslandscape

UTS School of Architecture at the Visualisation In

UTS School of Architecture at the Visualisation Institute Symposium 2025

29–30 October | UTS Buildings 6 + 11

As part of this year’s Visualisation Institute Symposium, the School of Architecture features prominently across two panels, convened by A/Prof Linda Matthews.

1. Counter-Mapping in Architectural Pedagogy
With Dr Endriana Audisho @endriana , Dr Louisa King @louisa_king_ Matte Ager-McConnell @matte.mcconnell & Yousef Ghazal @sef__g , and Tom Woodhead

This roundtable explores counter-mapping as a critical practice for unsettling dominant visual systems, foregrounding lived experience, collective memory and contested geographies. Student counter-mapping projects from UTS will be exhibited in the space.

2. Quantifying Quality – The Image and Its Impact on Perception
Moderated by Dr Mohammed Makki (UTS) @m_a_k_k_i and Jordan Mathers (SJB) @jordanmathers.jm with panellists including A/Prof Linda Matthews, Jonathan Knapp (SJB), Tamara Donnellan (ASPECT Studios), Estelle Grech (Committee for Sydney) and Ryan Cole (Burwood City Council). @aboutsjb @aspectstudios @committeeforsydney

This panel examines how perception, representation and lived experience shape our understanding of urban quality, beyond metrics and regulation.

Visit the link via our bio to register for these free events!

Please join UTS Architecture academics, alumni and

Please join UTS Architecture academics, alumni and friends Joanne Kinniburgh, Shannon Foster, Dana Marjan and Faid Ahmad, as they host this amazing event! #repost @bangawarra Country Performance Story: Staging critical spatial acts of political resistance with @doritahannah. Hosted by Bangawarra and @betchouf

Link in bio 🔗

“In these volatile times, it seems more urgent than ever to critically reconsider the necessary and entangled relationship between space and performance, between site and action, between object and event, between theatre as built form and theatre as art form.” Dorita Hannah, 2023

Join us for an immersive, interactive gathering in the PACT Theatre that explores marginalised feminist critiques through the staging of critical spatial acts of political resistance. This event will bring together a dynamic mix of thinkers, creators, and changemakers to interrogate how space - physical, social, and symbolic - is shaped by, and responds to, systems of power, identity, and resistance.

Through a series of performances, installations, conversations and interactive art-making, we will collectively examine the potential of space-making practices that disrupt, reimagine, and reclaim. Whether you are a researcher, artist, activist, performer or interested community member, this event invites you to participate in a living dialogue on how we resist, build, and occupy space, together.

Expect thought-provoking work at the intersection of art, activism, and academia. Expect to be challenged. Expect to create. Expect to connect.

It was wonderful hosting Dr. Apostolos Kyriazis @a

It was wonderful hosting Dr. Apostolos Kyriazis @akyriaz_p, and his students from Abu Dhabi University at UTS last week!

Dr. Apostolos Kyriazis, Associate Professor of Architecture at Abu Dhabi University, recently visited the UTS School of Architecture with a group of his students as part of a collaborative teaching initiative with Dr. Mohammed Makki and his Master of Architecture students at UTS.

As part of their design studio, UTS students are exploring the conditions of urban quality in several Abu Dhabi suburbs and developing alternative design scenarios that respond to the region’s climatic, cultural, and geographic contexts. During their visit, Dr. Kyriazis and his students shared valuable insights into Abu Dhabi’s urban landscape, providing UTS students with a wealth of knowledge to inform their work.

Thank you again for making the long trip, and see you in Abu Dhabi in December!!
@aada_adu @abudhabiuni @utsdab @utsengage

This initiative is supported through the research and education partnership established in 2024 between UTS and Abu Dhabi University.

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

All

Highlights

9

Undergraduate

23

Masters

18

Exhibitions

4

Lectures

16

Publications

4

Research

2

Archive

0

Who we are

Bachelor of Design in Architecture

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Bachelor of Design in Interior Architecture

Masters of Architecture

Masters of Landscape Architecture & Masters of Research in Landscape Architecture

Masters of Research in Architecture

PhD

This is the online End of the Year Show (EOYS) of the School of Architecture at UTS, UTS FOUND HERE / MAIL / NEWSLETTER

Instagram

UTS School of Architecture

702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW 2007.

T. +61 2 9514 8024

Highlights

9

Undergraduate

23

Masters

18

Exhibitions

4

Lectures

16

Publications

4

Research

2

Archive

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Exhibitions Analogue Images: Recent work by Rory Gardiner and Maxime Delvaux opens at Tin Sheds Gallery May 30th 1:50 AM

Lectures Symposium: Echoes of Empire February 24th 3:25 AM

Lectures Maintaining Adaptation: Two Decades of Public Sensemaking around Urban Water Following Hurricane Katrina – Public Talk by Dr. Joshua A. Lewis October 22nd 3:10 AM

Masters Designing Conversations with Landscape July 9th 11:20 PM

Undergraduate Architecture – Design Studio 1 July 1st 1:21 AM

Highlights Scarlett Pellegrini + Tracy Pham + Madeleine Siu – Architecture – Capstone Project July 9th 11:13 PM

Lectures Earth Binding Tools of Solidarity – Public Talk and Conversation with Kabage Karanja September 19th 2:40 AM

Masters Medium August 25th 11:11 PM

Undergraduate Interior Architecture – Foundations in Interior Architecture – Design Studio 1 July 9th 9:33 AM

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This is the online End of the Year Show (EOYS) of the School of Architecture at UTS, UTS FOUND HERE / MAIL / NEWSLETTER

Instagram

Designing for Belonging A conversation on how can

Designing for Belonging
A conversation on how can designing with Country facilitate social cohesion and belonging.

Wednesday November 5
4-6pm followed by light refreshments
UTS Central (Building 2) Foyer

In a world of polarity, division and disconnection, we can sense a global urgency for design interventions that foster a sense of community, reinforce identity and facilitate belonging. Speakers will share the ways that Indigenous cultural values are being reflected in meaningful places and experiences, and discuss the challenges of reconciling Aboriginal cultural and socio-spatial relationships within the contemporary mechanisms of placemaking and planning.

From the individual to the neighbourhood, and the global, how can designing with Country facilitate social cohesion and belonging?

Speakers:
Alison Page (Dharawal/Yuin), Artist and Designer, Professor of Practice, School of Architecture @alison_joy_page
Emily McDaniel (Wiradjuri), Curator and Design Collaborator, Professor of Practice, School of Architecture @emilymc_d
Annie Tennant, Director Design and Place, Placemaking NSW, NSW Government @atennant72

Please register your attendance via the link in bio

We look forward to welcoming you to this conversation.

Last month our Master of Architecture Program Dire

Last month our Master of Architecture Program Director, Brooke Jackson, was invited to present at the Think Brick Awards as part of our ongoing industry collaboration with Think Brick, who contribute to ongoing material research learning in our Programs.

A big congratulations to Master of Architecture Students, Jonas Cerdervall Norton and Lamar Lockhart-Smith alongside Landscape Honours Student, Mac White, who were awarded the 2025 Think Brick Student Category Prize, for their collaborative project, Garguree. Utilising upcycled material technologies, working with Natural Brick Co., to forge a modular, paving sequence from the old race track that can facilitate the regeneration of the hanging swamps of the Blue Mountains, Dharug and Gundangurra Country. This work was a product of the cross-disciplinary Masters core, titled Swamp Studio, led by UTS SoA academics, Louisa King (Landscape) + Urtzi Grau (Architecture), working with Uncle David King, with speculations being presented back to the Community and Council, for input into ongoing regenerative strategies.

@thinkbrickaustralia @naturalbrick_ @jonas.ced @lockhartsmith @mac_white1 @brookiejackjack @urtzigrau @louisa_king_ @utslandscape

UTS School of Architecture at the Visualisation In

UTS School of Architecture at the Visualisation Institute Symposium 2025

29–30 October | UTS Buildings 6 + 11

As part of this year’s Visualisation Institute Symposium, the School of Architecture features prominently across two panels, convened by A/Prof Linda Matthews.

1. Counter-Mapping in Architectural Pedagogy
With Dr Endriana Audisho @endriana , Dr Louisa King @louisa_king_ Matte Ager-McConnell @matte.mcconnell & Yousef Ghazal @sef__g , and Tom Woodhead

This roundtable explores counter-mapping as a critical practice for unsettling dominant visual systems, foregrounding lived experience, collective memory and contested geographies. Student counter-mapping projects from UTS will be exhibited in the space.

2. Quantifying Quality – The Image and Its Impact on Perception
Moderated by Dr Mohammed Makki (UTS) @m_a_k_k_i and Jordan Mathers (SJB) @jordanmathers.jm with panellists including A/Prof Linda Matthews, Jonathan Knapp (SJB), Tamara Donnellan (ASPECT Studios), Estelle Grech (Committee for Sydney) and Ryan Cole (Burwood City Council). @aboutsjb @aspectstudios @committeeforsydney

This panel examines how perception, representation and lived experience shape our understanding of urban quality, beyond metrics and regulation.

Visit the link via our bio to register for these free events!

Please join UTS Architecture academics, alumni and

Please join UTS Architecture academics, alumni and friends Joanne Kinniburgh, Shannon Foster, Dana Marjan and Faid Ahmad, as they host this amazing event! #repost @bangawarra Country Performance Story: Staging critical spatial acts of political resistance with @doritahannah. Hosted by Bangawarra and @betchouf

Link in bio 🔗

“In these volatile times, it seems more urgent than ever to critically reconsider the necessary and entangled relationship between space and performance, between site and action, between object and event, between theatre as built form and theatre as art form.” Dorita Hannah, 2023

Join us for an immersive, interactive gathering in the PACT Theatre that explores marginalised feminist critiques through the staging of critical spatial acts of political resistance. This event will bring together a dynamic mix of thinkers, creators, and changemakers to interrogate how space - physical, social, and symbolic - is shaped by, and responds to, systems of power, identity, and resistance.

Through a series of performances, installations, conversations and interactive art-making, we will collectively examine the potential of space-making practices that disrupt, reimagine, and reclaim. Whether you are a researcher, artist, activist, performer or interested community member, this event invites you to participate in a living dialogue on how we resist, build, and occupy space, together.

Expect thought-provoking work at the intersection of art, activism, and academia. Expect to be challenged. Expect to create. Expect to connect.

It was wonderful hosting Dr. Apostolos Kyriazis @a

It was wonderful hosting Dr. Apostolos Kyriazis @akyriaz_p, and his students from Abu Dhabi University at UTS last week!

Dr. Apostolos Kyriazis, Associate Professor of Architecture at Abu Dhabi University, recently visited the UTS School of Architecture with a group of his students as part of a collaborative teaching initiative with Dr. Mohammed Makki and his Master of Architecture students at UTS.

As part of their design studio, UTS students are exploring the conditions of urban quality in several Abu Dhabi suburbs and developing alternative design scenarios that respond to the region’s climatic, cultural, and geographic contexts. During their visit, Dr. Kyriazis and his students shared valuable insights into Abu Dhabi’s urban landscape, providing UTS students with a wealth of knowledge to inform their work.

Thank you again for making the long trip, and see you in Abu Dhabi in December!!
@aada_adu @abudhabiuni @utsdab @utsengage

This initiative is supported through the research and education partnership established in 2024 between UTS and Abu Dhabi University.

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

All

Highlights

9

Undergraduate

23

Masters

18

Exhibitions

4

Lectures

16

Publications

4

Research

2

Archive

0

Who we are

Bachelor of Design in Architecture

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Bachelor of Design in Interior Architecture

Masters of Architecture

Masters of Landscape Architecture & Masters of Research in Landscape Architecture

Masters of Research in Architecture

PhD

This is the online End of the Year Show (EOYS) of the School of Architecture at UTS, UTS FOUND HERE / MAIL / NEWSLETTER

Instagram

UTS School of Architecture

702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW 2007.

T. +61 2 9514 8024

Masters July 9th 2025

Designing Conversations with Landscape

Huw Turner of Collins+Turner with Professor Martin Bryant

When we claim that a built form is responsive to landscape, do we know it is actually listening? In this studio, we explore the ideas around form-making in landscape. To do that, we need to not only know landscape, but also what its relationship is with building. If we can make built form responsive to landscape, humans have potential to read landscape and care for it. In doing so, we might show that it is possible to achieve a relationship with landscape and the qualities that sustain us.

When we make built form, we need to know that it is not only informed by landscape, but it informs landscape. In this way, we decolonise the universal forms of architecture, encourage an appreciation of biodiversity and decarbonisation, and generate a culture that has equity for humans and non-humans. Working collaboratively, architecture and landscape architecture pairings, in dialogue, students develop a public building within an expansive external (landscape) interface that merges the two.

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