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The Barrer Hill Reserve in Canberra, Australia officially launched with the dedication of “Life Support,” our newest vertical habitecture structure, developed with the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Parks and Conservation Service. Project collaborators are Darren LeRoux (ACT Parks and Conservation) and Mitchell Whitelaw (ANU School of Art and Design), with Phil Gibbons (ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society), John Skurr (Structural Engineer), and Robert Reeve (Zamonti, Construction Contractor). Model-building assistants for the project’s representation in “I Thought I Heard a Bird” include Holly Raesly and Andrew Korik. Read more about Life Support here.
Double Happiness (Joyce Hwang + Nerea Feliz) is excited to be part of Matadero Madrid’s Cyborg Garden, a new collective project initiated through the Mutant Institute of Environmental Narratives, and curated/directed by elii architecture office and Matadero. Our proposal — “Hidden in Plain Sight” — is on view with Ecovisionaries / Ecovisionarios from June 13 to October 6, 2019 in Nave 16. More info about this project coming soon!
Joyce presents a lecture, “Architecture for the Collective,” at the symposium, “To see ourselves as part of something larger,” hosted by the Australian National University School of Art and Design in Canberra, Australia: March 22, 2019. More info here. Thank you Ashley Eriksmoen and Raquel Ormella for the invitation!
Drawings and a model of “Life Support” is exhibited in a group show, ” I Thought I Heard a Bird,” on view at Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre in Canberra, Australia, from March 21 to May 11, 2019. The exhibition is curated by Raquel Ormella, and includes work by artists: Fernando Do Campo, Ashley Eriksmoen, Joyce Hwang, Patsy Hely, and Madeline Kelly.
Joyce Hwang presents “Architect as Advocate” at Bard College: Tuesday, February 19, 5:30 pm – Campus Center, Weis Cinema.
Joyce Hwang partners with Nerea Feliz as Double Happiness in a new project initiative, Jardín Ciborg/Cyborg Garden, organized and curated by elii architecture office and Matadero Madrid. To kick off the process, Double Happiness leads an intensive workshop with Madrid design students from Feburary 11 to February 15, with an exhibition on February 16 at Matadero as part of the Madrid Design Festival.
Joyce presents a talk as part of a panel, “The Creaturely Citizen,” convened by Joseph Altshuler and Julia Sedlock at the 2018 Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) Symposium: Artists/Designers/Citizens, hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Other panelists include Fred Scharmen and Stewart Hicks. Thanks Joseph and Julia for the invitation!
Bat Tower and Bat Cloud are included in a new book by Tom Wainwright, Pet-tecture: Design for Animals. Read more about the book in the Financial Times, Wallpaper, Curbed, and Metropolis.
Joyce is an invited guest-of-honor for a BEAT (Building Equality in Architecture Toronto) dinner: October 29, at 6:30 pm. Read more about BEAT here. Thank you Betsy Williamson for the invitation!
Joyce Hwang presents “Architect as Advocate: Living Among Pests” at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 12:30 pm. Thanks to Vivian Lee for the invitation, and to Mason White for the introduction!
Joyce is interviewed by Whitney Van Houten for the AIA New York State’s e-news on “Emerging Professionals / New Future Practice and Community Task Force.” Check it out here.
Joyce’s article, “Pest Architecture,” is published in World Architecture Magazine from Tsinghua University of Beijing, China. Also featured in this issue are projects Bat Tower and Bat Cloud.
