Matter, Material and Making: Creative Research Practice in Architecture and Design

My research/creative projects and teaching provide me with a ‘laboratory of ideas’ for dealing with current challenges as well as imagining the future of built environments within the context of climate change. As Richard Florida (2002) describes in his book ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’, we are in ‘an age of pervasive creativity that permeates all sectors of the economy and society’ (p.56)). I believe that within this context where boundaries between art, science and design dissolve, as artists/ researchers/ academics/ designers/ and makers we can transform the stuff of our imagination to works that matter within larger cultural/ social/ economic/ and environmental contexts.