Join the residents as they give short presentations of their practices before inviting audience questions and discussion.
Taking place from 4–30 April, PRAKSIS's twenty-sixth residency, Bricking It, has invited a diverse group of architects, artists, designers and specialists to Bali to explore the technology, history, aesthetics and potentials of traditional Indonesian brick as a sustainable medium. The residency takes place at Samong Haven, a culture and learning centre under development in Sumberkima, north-west Bali. Residency participants will spend a month developing hands-on skills, building background knowledge and testing new concepts using brick. Specialist input into the residency comes from Indonesian architect Andy Rahman and senior researchers Professor Totok Noerwasito and Dr. I Nyoman Gede Maha Putra. Their involvement will include activities such as soil testing and running unfired brick making workshops. A projected outcome of R26 is the design and construction of a small-scale building on site.
The participating residents are: Ellie Birkhead is a designer, maker and facilitator living in Cornwall, England. Yohanes Arya Duta is a trained industrial designer and independent researcher from Indonesia. Jon Haga Grov, a Norwegian architect. Huzefah Haroon is an architect currently living in Karachi, Pakistan. Elise Hoebeke is a contemporary jewellery artist from Belgium. Breanne Johnson is an artist and designer from the United States and Curaçao, currently living and working in Mexico City. Ba Taonga Julia Kaunda-Kaseka is a multidisciplinary curator, mentor and designer of social spaces living in Lusaka, Zambia. Tinsae Tsegahun Mengistu is an architect born and raised in Addis Ababa. Francisco Susmel studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and now lives in Puerto Rico.
Co-ordinating the residency are An Urgent Situation project initiators PRAKSIS and Oslo-based architect Don Lawrence. This is the fourth episode within the overarching An Urgent Situation residency series, a long-term PRAKSIS project focusing on learning from local Indonesian vernacular technology, design, society and culture to address the impact of tourism on people and the environment.
