Practice in a Box

Comprising a series of A4-format boxes, the exhibition presents the work of both emerging and established practitioners in architecture and design, while posing two central questions:

What knowledge and insights do creative practitioners produce?
What do these research projects share, beyond their singularities, as a common framework?

Each contributor, whether early or advanced in their career, was invited to produce an artefact within the box: a model, sound piece, object, video, or installation embodying the insights of their creative research. Each artefact, accompanied by a brief written reflection, offered a tangible response to the guiding questions. The box served as both a container and a metaphor, a framework echoing the structure of a practice based PhD, within which practitioners constructed and communicated their evolving knowledge.

A project was developed within the ADAPT-r (Architecture, Design and Art Practice Training – Research) framework and launched at the "Making Research – Research Making" conference in Aarhus (September 2015), before touring the seven ADAPT-r partner universities and prominent institutions within the professional and cultural landscape.

Its journey spanned cities including Ljubljana, Tallinn, Glasgow, Barcelona, Brussels, London, Paris, Rome, and concluded in Melbourne, Australia—creating a transnational dialogue on the role of creative practice in academic and professional contexts.