pre:fab convention: [Detecting] the Darchive

This yr’s pre:fab convention, [Detecting] the Darchive, will discover the idea of the Darchive – the darkish matter* of architectural follow: the undeclared, undiscussed, unacknowledged, uninspected, or in any other case hidden individuals, objects, areas, occasions and concepts which have had an everlasting impact on our particular person or collective creativeness, and thru that, our inventive practices and constructed atmosphere. The issues that make various follow various.

The convention, to be held in Auckland on 18 November, might be free and open to anybody to attend and it’ll try to reveal the ‘Darchive’ by a mix of quickfire displays, participatory workshops and shared dialog over a potluck lunch.

Register right here to attend the Darchive

• Date: 18 November 2023
• Time: 9:30am and 4:30pm
• Location: Brightside AUT, 31–33 Symonds Avenue, Auckland
• Notes: Deliver a plate. As much as 60 CPD factors for Registered Architects

Open name: Submit your darkefact concept by 4 November 2023

Organisers are asking for one bodily illustration of one thing out of your private ‘darchive’ (no larger than A3 cubed), and an summary that elaborates on it (max. 400 phrases).

Examples of particular person ‘darkefacts’ may embrace:

• Objects, areas, occasions, tales, relationships or tasks and many others. which have had a profound affect in your worldview and the way you strategy structure; secret, deeply private or in any other case unseen
• Your personal undisclosed recipes, rituals, processes or strategies that help your inventive practices and the way you perceive and/or theorise them
• Another person’s present follow that has an ongoing impact in your understanding of structure in Aotearoa now
• An expertise or perception gained from another person’s follow previously that has had an everlasting impact by yourself follow and/or structure/the constructed atmosphere in Aotearoa usually.

The decision is for honest, idiosyncratic, subjective and numerous ‘darkefacts’, and to encourage presenters to deal with expressing the impact their chosen darkish matter has had on them with others.

Speaker displays

Along with the open name, pre:fab is inviting 24 audio system to offer a three-minute presentation sharing a private ‘darkefact’ – alongside a bodily illustration and written description.

Notes from the organiser:

pre:fab is all about sharing – data, sources, concepts, love and meals! Plates, cutlery, tea, espresso and water might be provided and a few plant-based fundamentals for lunch. We ask that attendees carry a contribution to this shared meal.

^{*Architectural Darkish Matter: that parallel universe of unofficial, off-narrative, ineffable, banal, idiosyncratic, subjective, irrational, nonsensical and/or in any other case personal, private, secret, hidden, hid, unacceptable, inglorious and many others. materials that finally determines the qualities, discourse, outcomes, qualia and mixture results of particular person and collective inventive follow – our actions and interactions – but, one way or the other, stays outdoors of it… Unobserved, Undiscussed, Undocumented, Beneath, AND throughout us.}