POLL

Freya Bronte Solomon

Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew

What does it mean to take on the role of the author? To bring to life a narrative, welding the story to your identity. Constituting the privileged moment of individualisation of an event. It is a role which sparks anxiety in some while others feast in the ability to control all.

Architecture predicates the material, placing the authority with the author. It is in the name of whom that we speak? The agenda of whom that we drive? The authority of Architecture needs to be acknowledged.

Architecture is an instrument that claims territory and dictates use. The Hoddle grid the system that champions subdivision and land exchange is an instrument of economics, trading in the form of property. The project explores an alternate to that of economics, the speaker’s corner program acts as placard. Leaning on moments of public agency and embracing the role of author, the project is more than the recitation of historical fact, the events become stories we tell ourselves, the architecture facilitating the narrative.

The project is not the project so much as a concept for the project.

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