COUNTRY, CLIMATE AND COMMUNITY underpin the design aspirations of our studio. In June last year, we hosted a studio conference at the University of Technology Sydney to extend our knowledge of and reinforce our commitment to these values but, also, to reunite our studio camaraderie after the isolation enforced by the Covid-19 virus.
A panel discussion with significant academic and professional speakers was devoted to each of these three themes. We also closed the studio for an additional day so that each of our current projects could be critically reviewed in relation to these fundamental measures of our design. The conference and project reviews were occasions to listen and learn, to ask questions of ourselves and to deepen our commitment to addressing these great challenges, in our design work and our professional conduct. These were the questions we asked ourselves:
COUNTRY
How can we support a process of acknowledgement of loss and reconciliation with the First Nations, Māori and Pasifika cultures of the land on which we work? How can we atone for the
