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Category Archives: Animal

LIFE SUPPORT AT BARRER HILL RESERVE

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 […]

ECOVISIONARIES – CYBORG GARDEN AT MATADERO

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 […]

LIFE SUPPORT – UNDER CONSTRUCTION

I THOUGHT I HEARD A BIRD – CRAFT ACT

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 […]

MATADERO MADRID – MUTANT GARDEN WORKSHOP

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 […]

ARTISTS DESIGNERS CITIZENS: AICAD

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 […]

WORLD ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE

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.

CITYLAB ON #MPRRACCOON

Joyce weighs in on #MPRRaccoon in CityLab! Check out the article: “Lessons from the Raccoon That Scaled a Skyscraper,” by Linda Poon.

KCET + LENS at UCLA

“Designing a City that Makes Room for Nature” by Robin Kello is published as part of the “Urban Ark Los Angeles” series — an environmental storytelling partnership between KCET and the UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies. We are excited to be included in this piece!

DIMENSIONS OF CITIZENSHIP: FORM N-X00

Thank you to the curators of the 2018 U.S. Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale for inviting us to contribute our thoughts on the Dimensions of Citizenship. Joyce’s contribution is posted as part of the series Form N-X00: New Forms for Citizenship. The images and short texts in the series Form N-X00: New Forms for Citizenship respond to […]

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW

Bat Tower is published in “Typology: Building for Animals,” in the Architectural Review’s issue on Rethinking the Rural.

SOILED

We are excited to contribute to Soiled Zine, issue no. 7, “Animatescrapers.” Many thanks to Joseph Altshuler and the Soiled team for the invitation to reflect on cat-characters!

LIFE SUPPORT

A sneak peek at LIFE SUPPORT, our latest Habitecture project for Canberra, Australia. Collaborators and consultants include Darren LeRoux (ACT Parks and Recreation Services), Mitchell Whitelaw (ANU School of Art and Design), and John Skurr Structural Engineers.

BIOPHILIC CITIES JOURNAL

Joyce’s essay “Toward an Architecture for Urban Wildlife Advocacy” is published in Biophilic Cities Journal, Volume 1, Issue 2. Check out an online copy here!