DUALITI is a small, collaborative exhibition of work by nine Masters students from the Spatial Ecologies and CoDe Labs at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington.

Encompassing Design, Urbanism, Architecture and Landscape, each student is exploring their own niche research question through the mediums of art, sculpture, photography, film, 3D prints, and renders.

The group hope to invoke an experience of wonder, curiosity and contemplation by showcasing their latest renditions and iterations.

EXHIBITORS

Kristy Winchester // Echoes of Home: A Sensory Archive

Echoes of Home is a catalogue of sensory impressions gathered from the homes I have inhabited throughout my life. This archive preserves traces of experiences that may otherwise shift, fade or disappear over time. It considers home not as a fixed place, but as something understood through the body.

Shi Chen // AFTERIMAGE

Through photography, I try to find what forms and ways of seeing might allow these feelings to be expressed beyond myself. I experiment with photographic processes, perspectives, and different ways of making an image.

Rohan Patel // Beyond Biculturalism: An Architectural Territory Between Indian and Māori Worlds

This exhibition presents a body of work that uses digital fabrication and craftsmanship to imagine an Indo-Māori territory. It explores how this new architectural territory might emerge from the negative space between the site and the pou, where cultural identity, material practice, and conflict are negotiated.

Anne Marie Bendsen //

This research aims to prevent injury and death from driveway runovers through urban design guided by the Te Aranga Principles developed by Mana Whenua. This research challenges predominant existing interventions, which focus on minor physical modifications to individual driveways without addressing at risk groups, or systemic failures in suburban built form that enable these incidents to occur.

Joanna Chiong // Between Flesh and Glory: Re-imagining Church Architecture in Modern Society as Embodied Space

This work explores how contemporary church architecture can evoke emotional and transcendent experiences through embodied encounters with space. This responds to the changing role of Christian churches within modern society and reconsiders how the typology of churches might express Biblical narratives.

Jason Megchelse // -phyte Club

Human actions are transforming the Earth, leaving lasting impacts on its ecosystems and climate, with urbanisation playing a key role in the loss of biodiversity. This series explores how material composition, informed by mātauranga Māori principles, can facilitate ecological inhabitation of facades with minimal human intervention or maintenance.

Joel Purchas // Archive Fever

Experiments in archiving the Miramar Peninsula through photographic means

Jack Hoggard //

Kinetic architecture has become increasingly used to respond to changing environmental conditions through automation and spatial optimisation. This research addresses a gap between atmospheric theory and kinetic architecture by investigating mechanical systems that register, reveal, and translate the changing conditions of place.

John Vautier // HEL — Human Embodied Landscape

This projected series showcases human-landscape relationship expressed through a variety of film techniques and accompanying sounds.

CONTACT

Email: purchajoel@myvuw.ac.nz