The show will bring together an important group of Australian and international artists (many of whom trained or still practice as architects) whose work is engaged with critical spatial practice. It will combine a gallery show with offsite projects in the grounds of Sydney University and in the local area of Redfern.

There is an associated public keynote lecture from Professor Margaret Crawford (UC Berkeley) on the 8th, and a symposium on the 9th. Both these events are free.

Highlights include:

• Aus/NZ artist DV Rogers living for two weeks on campus in his ‘Disastr Hotel’ – a demonstration of emergency autonomous structures and self sufficiency. It’s a project that has taken on a serious, poignant relevance given the events of the last six months or so.
• Free public lecture by Margaret Crawford, Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley (formerly Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory at Harvard GSD). She has edited Everyday Urbanism and The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life. Her book, Building the Workingman’s Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns, examines the rise and fall of professionally designed industrial environments. More recently, Nansha Coastal City: Landscape and Urbanism in the Pearl River Delta was published in early 2006 and co-edited by Alan Berger.
• New work by Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro (who represented Australia at the 2009 Venice Biennale)
• Mimi Zeiger (architectural writer and founder of Loudpaper) in conversation with respected Slovenian architect/artist Marjetica Potrc as part of the symposium.
• performances and interventions during the symposium from people such as Luftwagon (Sydney) and Public Assembly (Melbourne).