The Tomorrow, When the War Began studio is concerned with the architecture of subversion, guerrilla tactics, and resistance movements. The project will take the logic of John Marsden’s novel Tomorrow, When the War Began (1993) as a starting point. The imagined scenario is: Tomorrow, village markets in Sydney and across the country will need to operate as key sites for resistance movements.
So what do we do today to prepare for tomorrow? The group will work collectively to investigate, manipulate and imperceptibly co-opt the architecture of village market events. Theoretical concepts related to themes of resistance, concealment, and subversion will be explored as architectural tools with advanced mapping and design methods used to consider how architecture can support acts of popular resistance (insurgency) movements and design for a tomorrow scenario.
The work asks precise questions: How might architecture support resistance movements? What are the design capacities of architecture (market stalls, tent structures, laneways, vans, trucks, parking spaces, community facilities and other infrastructures) to take an indiscernible yet operative function, supporting a resistance movement for tomorrow, when the war began?
With thanks to the following contributors and critics:
Rafael Luna, UTS, Matthew Gill, Royal Australian Air Force, Matheesha Gunaratne, PMI Engineers, Linda Matthews, UTS, Zoe Skinner, ADP, Chris Tjhia, DJRD
