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Social agency

graduate studio
• Listening
• Engaging
• Questioning
• Challenging
• Changing
Three driving questions
WHAT IS
GREAT DESIGN?
WHOSE REALITY
COUNTS?
WHAT’S YOUR
ROLE AS A
DESIGNER?
PRODUCT

Great design
comes from real PROCESS
engagement

Christine Yunjing Guan


Past
Josie Bi, Dye

studios
• Discrimination
• Mental health
• Refugees
• Homelessness
• Social exclusion
Kings Cross –
homelessness
Paige Kodesh, Isoland
Joynton Ave – refugees
and inclusion
Alex Jessie Atlas

2022 - inclusion
Social agency 2023: displacement and protection

Our partner: 107 Projects


Displacement
• 100 million people forcibly displaced –
conflict, disaster, violence, climate
• Most live in cities
• Uncertainty, isolation, stigma, mental health

Protection
• activities aimed at ensuring full respect for the
rights of the individual
• Vulnerable groups - children, those with
mental health and psychosocial needs, those
experiencing gender-based violence, etc
What is an architectural response
that meaningfully engages with
displacement and protection?

- Question
- Explore
- Challenge
Renate and David
Tutors
+ guests
Thanks
david.sanderson@unsw.edu.au

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