Pre-slime Sublime

Awe: Something you feel when confronted with forces beyond your control: nature, the cosmos, chaos, human error, artificial intelligence, hallucinations.

We are living through a series of extreme global events that are causing major disruptions to our lives. We have never spent so much time at home, and it has become clear there that not only is there much to learn about where we live; where we live is changing rapidly. So how do we really understand a place that finds itself in radical flux?

Open source and publicly available geo-spatial platforms and a range of phenomenological and temporal field explorations have informed the examination and crafting of our own stories of place to inform studio projects; as well as the survey and collation of a collective catalogue of material resource streams readily and regeneratively available in south eastern Australia.

Students have synthesised their findings into buildings responsive to future environments; providing civic, participatory infrastructure that enables communities to make sense of the complexity of their local region; to assist in forecasting change over time; and to collectively respond.

Pre-Slime Sublime aims to re-examine the idea of place within a contemporary context – specifically this place we live in, south eastern Australia.