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Dr Campbell Drake
Spatial Agency, Interior Architecture Design Studio 5, explores the potential of architecture to make positive contributions to the conditions and well-being of people, cultural practices, and environments. This design studio aims to understand, design and interrogate the agency of space as a relational condition in the making of urban and regional environments. Promoting provocative, expansive and contemporary potentials of architecture, Spatial Agency offers a series of ‘live’ studios to introduce a variety of sites, programs, and contexts. Building student cultural competencies working with Aboriginal communities, the studio format offers a weeklong travel component where students have the opportunity to work with Local Aboriginal Land Councils across NSW.
Focusing on socio-architectural spatial dynamics within complex political environments, the studio looks for opportunities in which expanded spatial practices can make valued contributions to the communities and stakeholders in which proposed architectural interventions are situated. Proposing a dynamic relation between social and architectural spatial formation, the studio investigates the complex relations between architectural and social space. Common to all studios is a commitment to social, spatial and environmental justice, with which students are asked to situate a design scheme that provides tangible benefits for a predetermined group of stakeholders.
