Organisers
Olivia Hyde was educated in Sydney and London and is a graduate of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London. She is a practice director at the Sydney office of Bligh Voller Nield Architecture has taught final year design at both the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. Olivia has worked in Hong Kong and London with Foster and Partners, and in Spain, Malaysia and the US where she was awarded a teaching fellowship by the University of Michigan. Her design studios focus on the architectural potential of art practice, with a particular interest in full scale and installation based explorations. She is a founding member of Altogether Elsewhere and co-coordinator of the Urban Islands program. www.bvn.com.au
Thomas Rivard is director of Lean Productions, a multi-disciplinary practice making buildings, objects and fables, and dedicated to bringing together all manner of collaborators in the common (and uncommon) pursuit of the fantastic, the impossible and the improbable. He received a Bachelors Degree in Art History and Design from Dartmouth College and a masters of architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches regularly in Sydney’s Universities, and co-coordinates the Urban Islands program. His work in the fields of architecture, public art, performance and media is dedicated to re-imagining the potential links between provocative cultural acts and the urban environments in which they thrive. He divides his time. www.leanproductions.com.au
Mark Szczerbicki was born in Gdansk, Poland. He was educated in Sydney and in 2003 joined Studio [R] Architecture + Design. In 2007 Mark was awarded the Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship for Architects to pursue his research topic Modelling Diagrams – The Integration of the Model into the Design Process of Contemporary European Practice. He has designed and curated architectural exhibitions as part of recent Sydney Architecture Festivals, and is involved in teaching at UNSW and Sydney University and organising architectural talks and events. Mark has worked on a wide range of projects in Australia and overseas and has collaborated with other architects on award-winning competition entries. www.studior.net.au
PAST ORGANISERS
Joanne Jakovich is an interactive architect and researcher specialising in interactive spaces spanning art, architecture and urbanism. Her work builds a thesis of engagement in which human and computational participation shape the development of sustainable systems for inhabitation that is urban, architectural, or digitally mediated. Creative outcomes include interactive soundspaces, online urban planning simulations, and urban development frameworks. She has exhibited in Japan, Australia, Taiwan and the Netherlands and produced international projects integrating urbanism, architecture and interactive art. She graduated from the University of Tokyo on a Japan Ministry for Education Scholarship and is pursuing a PhD in Architecture at the University of Sydney. She is the editor of the Urban Islands publication "Cuttings: Urban Islands vol 1" published by the Sydney University Press. She is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. jakovich.net.au
