Drawing Room

Aaron Paterson is a practicing architect and Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Planning at The University of Auckland. In the field of residential architecture, both multi-unit housing and single dwellings, Aaron is widely recognised in New Zealand—as well as widely published and awarded. His research is focused on non-normative architectural representation of fabrication and assemblage in practice. 

Sarosh Mulla is a practicing architectural designer and Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Planning at The University of Auckland. His design work has been awarded by both the New Zealand Institute of Architects and the Designers Institute of New Zealand. His doctoral research focused on the design and construction of a live project, the Longbush Ecosanctuary Welcome Shelter. Sarosh is also a founding member of the design collective Oh. No.Sumo and the Auckland Crit Club and co-designer of ‘Rainbow Machine,’ a large-scale public artwork for the Auckland Council. 

Marian Macken teaches in design and media in the School of Architecture and Planning at The University of Auckland. She trained in architecture, landscape architecture, and visual art, receiving a PhD, by thesis and creative work, from the University of Sydney. Marian’s research examines histories and theories of spatial representation, temporal aspects of architecture, and the book form as a spatial practice. Her work has been acquired by international public collections of artists’ books and she published Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice (2018), as part of Routledge’s Design Research in Architecture series. 

Fritha Powell completed her Master’s Thesis in Architecture and Heritage Conservation at The University of Auckland in 2019, and is now a practising Graduate Architect with an immense interest in the abstract threads of architecture; especially that which is drawn. Her thesis Her Drawn Lines was supervised by Marian Macken and has continued to influence her thinking in her practice. Working at Sheppard and Rout in Christchurch she continues to put lines onto paper and project herself amongst the abstract and soon-to-be real. 

Simon Twose is an architect and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka. His work focuses on drawing, particularly in the territories between art and architecture practices. Simon researches through creative works, which have transitioned from buildings to spatio-temporal installations, and inform critical reflections on creative architectural practice. He has exhibited widely, including invited contributions to five Venice Architecture Biennales and PQ15, the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. 

Fabio Morreale is a Lecturer and Director of Research at the School of Music of The University of Auckland, where he teaches Composition and Computer Music. He was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Trento (Italy). He holds a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction (University of Trento), and a Master’s degree in Computer Science (University of Verona, Italy). His research is centred on the design of new technologies for music performance and composition and the politics of music technology. 

Clovis McEvoy is an award-winning composer, sound artist and researcher currently based in Berlin, Germany. Clovis specialises in music for virtual reality, interactive music and works for instruments and electronics. In 2020, Clovis was an Artist-In-Residence at the TAKT Institute, Berlin and at DME-Seia, Portugal furthering his research into experiential music for virtual reality. Clovis’s current project is a large-scale commission from Creative New Zealand to create a virtual oral history of the country’s present and recent past—allowing stories and music to intertwine through the medium of virtual reality. 

Xiaoling Cheng has recently finished her Bachelor of Architectural Studies at The University of Auckland. During her studies, she developed interests in Cross Reality (XR), digital materiality and immersive virtual reality technology, undertaking a University Summer Research Scholarship to pursue these further.