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.