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Flying the tide.

Observing and documenting.

Saint-Brieuc, June 2026.
@katescardifield @stukinha

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What can a grant make possible?

Last year, the Alastair Swayn Foundation supported research and creative practice exploring some of the most urgent questions facing architecture, design and the built environment.

From multi-sensory design for neurodivergence to algae-based biomaterials, community-led housing, low-carbon regional materials, disaster recovery, housing excellence and conversations between academia and practice. These projects show the power of design research to shape more thoughtful, inclusive and sustainable futures.

@sibling_architecture — Deep Calm: The Regulating Effect of Pressure and Touch

A publication exploring how multi-sensory design can support neurodivergence.

@fieldwork_architects — Built from Here

A project mapping Victoria’s regional materials and manufacturing capacity to support place-responsive, low-carbon building practice.

@katescardifield, University of Technology Sydney — From Sea to Structure
 Research into how algae biomaterials can help decarbonise construction and advance sustainable design

@monashurbanlab and @kerstin_thompson_architects — Australian Housing Atlas
 An online national portal documenting outstanding Australian multi-residential housing from the past 100 years.

@card_practice — Adapt
 An audio series exploring the evolving role architects can play after disasters in Australia.

@itsallabitacademic, University of Melbourne — A podcast bridging academic research and industry insight through conversations between built environment pracademics.

The 2026 Grant Round is now open, with proposals invited across four themes:

- Living Together - The Non-Urban - Design for a World Changing Us - Intelligence and Innovation

Australian Research Grants: $10,000 International Research Grant: $20,000

Applications close 7 July 2026.

Apply via the link in bio.

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💗Kate💗
7年ぶり〜🫶
💛❤️🩵🇦🇺🐨💜💙💚
ケイトの名前の由来は、Kateから🥰

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Congratulations to the 2025 AUSTRALIAN DESIGN Grant Winners:

🔹 Monash University – Australian Housing Atlas
@monashurbanlab and @kerstin_thompson_architects are launching an online nationwide portal documenting outstanding Australian multi-residential housing over the past 100 years - the first 30 cases this funding will support will provide an instructive guide for housing design excellence.

🔹 @sibling_architecture – Deep Calm: The Regulating Effect of Pressure and Touch
The creation of a publication that explores how multi-sensory design can support neurodivergence.

🔹 University of Technology Sydney – From Sea to Structure: Greening Architecture and the Built Environment
@katescardifield investigates the role algae biomaterials can play in decarbonising construction and advancing sustainable design.
Photographer credit: Liz Ham

🔹 @wilya_janta - Living Culture: Post-Occupancy Study of the First Wilya Janta Home
A post-occupancy study of the first Wilya Janta home, co-designed with Warumungu Elders, generating research and content to support future community-led housing solutions across remote Aboriginal communities.

Stay tuned over the coming weeks as we spotlight our grant winners and share more about their inspiring work!

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Great to be a part of this amazing symposium! @katescardifield #unsw #3dprinting #sustainablearchitecture

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Celebrate the opening of PRS Australia with welcome drinks and finger food in the Design Hub Gallery.

Join us in the gallery space for networking opportunities with our community of practice researchers and to view the research of our PhD and Masters by Research Examination candidates. Doors open at 5.30pm.

PRS Australia will then be officially opened by PRS Australia Chair, Associate Professor Andrea Eckersley from 6.30pm in the Design Hub Lecture Theatre.

We are honoured to host Prof. Kate Scardifield, acclaimed artist and Co-Director of the Material Ecologies Design Lab in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at University of Technology, Sydney.

Sea matter / Blue media considers the peripheral yet essential forces that shape a creative practice, attending to the currents of process that flow between lab, field, studio, and kitchen. This lecture traces how material knowledges emerge—viscous, living, and in flux. Through intertidal encounters, watery methodologies, and submersion, attention is given to biological processes and the ways matter metabolises, drifts, and swells. How do we create the conditions that shape new materials? What elements are vital? Traversing disciplinary spaces of art, science, and design becomes a means of sensing, sustaining, and knowing. Fluidity and overflow unsettle assumptions, revealing what it means to make with living systems, and the transformative possibilities of matter within the water column and along its edge.

Please note the following order of proceedings

PRS exhibition opening: 5:30pm – 6:30pm, Design Hub Gallery, Level 2

Keynote: 6:30pm - 7:30pm, Design Hub Lecture Theatre, Level 3

Networking and refreshments: 7:30pm - 8:30pm, Design Hub Gallery, Level 2

➡️ Link in bio to register

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Courtesy of Kate Scardifield

1. Portrait by Robin Hearfield.

2. You Don’t Need Me To Tell You 2022
(Production Still)

Dual Channel HD Video, Colour 16:9, Stereo Sound, 8:52 Minutes
Cinematography: Josh Raymond; Sound: Laurence Pike.

#WateryMethodologies #MaterialEcologies #IntertidalThinking #makingwithmatter #practiceresearch #prsaustralia #practiceresearchsymposium

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Visit to Bina Anak Sholeh Elementary School, Yogyakarta, by Global Studio Indonesia 2024 @utsdab School of Design, University of Technology Sydney.
@utsthinkglobal
@digitaljalanjalan @lin.wei_syd @katescardifield

#utsdab #utsdesign #utsthinkglobal #uts #utsengage

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Global Studio China- CHONGQING DAY 2!! 🐛Today we were introduced to the silkworms and the process of the production. We learnt about their lifecycle from little eggs to making their cocoons that humans then collect for silk. Then, we were lucky enough to be given access to the silk worm labs and were able to see how they were taken care of and even saw some silkworms before making the cocoon and also inside their cocoon. // After lunch break we learnt about fabric dyeing🤩🤩 all of us were making different designs and playing around with different techniques that can be used. We let it soak in the colour and opened it up to see the pretty designs ◡̈ BIG day today 🫶-Caption is written by our amazing UTS student Misya Veona. #utsthinkglobal #utsdab #utsdesign #utsproductdesign #utsfashion #utsviscom #utsccchub #uts #utslife #studentlife #utslife #utsengage

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The Winter issue of @artmonthly is out now!

This edition is focused on textiles and was guest edited by @palindrome51, @ewingtonjulie and @blakegriffiths_. Featured on the cover is ‘Takapau’ (2022), a woven installation by @mataahocollective that recently won the Golden Lion for the Best Participant in the International Exhibition at @labiennale.

A big thank you to the guest editors and everyone who contributed to this issue:
@hungrylikethewolifson
@_budju_
@mao_mao_de
@malarugs
@katescardifield
Rongomai Grbic-Hoskins
Belinda von Mengersen
Kay Lawrence

… and many more behind the scenes!

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PALMS has 1 of 5 subsidised studios available from early July. 27m2 professional artist studio (pictured, 6m x 4.5m) with 3m high walls in Rockdale, for women and gender diverse artists. Sharing is OK, $691/month includes all bills plus large shared workshop use. Next door to Bunnings, level access with loading dock, parking, easy access to transport. DM us here or reach out to a frond you know.

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The 𝗞𝗔𝗕𝗞 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯-𝟮𝟰 is pleased to announce another special guest speaker-respondent for 𝗙𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀: 𝗞𝗔𝗕𝗞 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟯𝟭 𝗠𝗮𝘆, 𝗮𝘁 𝗞𝗔𝗕𝗞, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲!

We look forward to welcoming . . .

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Artist and biomaterials researcher . . .

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Co-director of the Material Ecologies Design Lab at the University of Technology Sydney . . .

𝗞𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗜𝗘𝗟𝗗

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𝗞𝗔𝗧𝗘 has a research-driven and experimental studio practice traversing textiles, sculpture, installation and video. Her work intertwines material investigations, archival collection-focused research, and interdisciplinary exchanges to trace materials through various states of transformation, generating different types of encounters with materials and different forms of material knowledge. Her current projects investigate designing with algae-based biopolymers, biomaterials for carbon capture and storage, and textiles as propositional instruments for navigation, transmission and communication.

Kate is an associate professor and co-director of the Material Ecologies Design Lab at the University of Technology Sydney. She is in residence at the C3 Institute (Climate Change Cluster) in the Faculty of Science, where she leads projects exploring the development and application of biomaterials in architecture and design.

Her recent exhibitions include: Pliable Planes, UNSW Galleries; FREE/STATE, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.

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𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁, 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁: 𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻.𝗸𝗮𝗯𝗸.𝗻𝗹

Image credits:

Kate Scardifield portrait by Liz Ham

The Metabolic Museum 2022, Project development and field research,
Yerroulbine / Balls Head, Cammeraygal Land.

Material testing and development (algae biomass and oyster shell waste).

Biomasonry composite (algae biomass and oyster shell waste).

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Introducing . . .
𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯-𝟮𝟰 member . . .

Experimental field and spatial practitioner . . .

Tutor in KABK-KC Interfaculty ArtScience . . .

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Presenting at 𝗙𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀: 𝗞𝗔𝗕𝗞 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰

Friday 31 May
11:00-19:00
KABK Auditorium

For more info, visit: lectoratedesign.kabk.nl

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𝗖𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘆 𝗘𝗲𝗸 has a well-established experimental field and spatial practice encompassing monumental inflatables and lightweight immersive installations.

By staging tangible interventions in very particular sites, she aims to expand our power of perception in direct relation to the senses and the environment. Her experiments allow people to experience moving, flying or floating, but rather than the sensation of moving through space, we feel that space is moving through us. Her work connects with the deeper layers of ourselves and of our surroundings.

Cocky has been a core-team teacher in the ArtScience Interfaculty at KABK and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague since 2009 and is a member of the KABK Deep Futures Research Group 2023-24, where she explores the voice of darkness from the mudflats of the Netherlands.

Between 2018 – 2023, Cocky led artistic field research programs at the Field Academy at StrandLAB Almere. Recent presentations and exhibitions of her work include: Landscape of Care, Tiznit Marocco (2019); Spectrum, Spring Festival, Utrecht (2020); Amstelpark as Sensorial Heritage – field program, Zone2Source, Amsterdam (2022); Resonant Bodies, 23rd Biennale Sydney (2022); The Muddy Muddy Mystery Tour, Sonic Acts Biennial, Amsterdam (2024); UMAA-Unité Mobile d’Action Artistique, Mille Plateaux – Centre Chorégraphique National, FR (2024).

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# Imagination
# Sensation
# Spatial Domain
# Temporal Zone
# Darkness
# Dream state
# Mudflats
# Genius loci
# Hyperspace
# Cyclical Rhythms

Image credits:
Cocky Eek and Bora Sekerci

Fault Lines identity and campaign: Jungeun Lee and Kay Pisarowitz

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