Research

Research conducted through CAStudios foregrounds the fertile character of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and process based modes of practice. Advocating new methods of attentiveness, and exploring new generative procedures, we argue that process thinking is not simply an operational stance, but an ethical position. Taking seriously the relationship between process thinking and the design of the public urban realm, our research advocates a mode of design which, rather than reproduce planned environments as systems of control, configures place as a discursive field of movement, encounter, and exchange.

The research interests of CAStudios are expansive and connective. This engagement with ‘thinking in-between’ forms both a backdrop to and a focus of our research activity. Within this framework, an ensemble of particular research trajectories can be discerned, including: Ecological Thinking; Urban Resilience; Generative Design Methods; Interdisciplinary Thinking, and Distributed Cognition.

CAStudios research addresses real world problems concerning climate change, urban resilience, and the design of the public realm. Within these projects new ways of thinking and innovation in design generation and response to brief are developed, tested and built.

CAStudios conducts much of its research through award-winning built projects and gallery exhibitions accompanied by written exhibition publications and catalogues. We also pursue or research interests via conferences, key note presentations, and, via our university linkages, through a range of research laboratories, funded research projects and industry engaged design studio teaching in Universities around the world.