Field Rooms, Open Field Agency. Photo by Joshua Morris.
MAPA is a multidisciplinary practice working across architecture, public art, urban design and place strategy. We create inclusive and responsive projects grounded in deep listening, careful observation of place and creative community participation.
Through participatory and creative processes, we work with multiple communities, ecologies and key stakeholders of place. This includes Indigenous knowledge-keepers, everyday users of a place, community organisations, not-for-profits, cultural institutions, universities, local and state government.
We develop site-specific outcomes across scales — from design briefs to buildings to public art, temporary installations and long term strategy for public places.
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Field Rooms Shortlisted for Architecture AU Social Impact Award
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“Authentic engagement with relevant community groups is evident across the delivery of the shortlisted projects in this year’s awards program. This shifts the emphasis from the built form alone to the relationship between the building and its users”. Jury chair Katelin Butler
Field Rooms Shortlisted for Australian Institute of Architects Sustainability Award
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This project seeks to push discussions of sustainability beyond individual buildings or sites to consider the broader systems and processes of urban development. The project proposes and enacts a regenerative and reciprocal model of urbanism in a rapidly developing part of Sydney.