RAA In Practice – Wandering with Intent - Bobbie Bayley & Owen Kelley

Wednesday 29th May 1pm – 2pm

This one hour session offers 1 formal CPD point, performance criteria addressed are 8, 12, 18, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 39, 45, 50 from the AACA National Standard of Competency for Architects 2021.

Bobbie & Owen’s story begins with two pushbikes, Australia's latitude 25 and student naivety as they set out to find Australia’s architecture in 2017. That was the start of Dogspike aka. The Grand Section as they filled gaps in their knowledge through full immersion. Holes in knowledge have been launching pads for inquiry, each question below is one of these starting points... and it is just starting to get real spicy after having moved to Mparntwe, central Australia in 2023. Things are heating up...

●       How can we contribute to Australia’s built environment if we don’t know Australia? - The Grand Section

●       How can we create good buildings if we don’t know the place they will belong to? - Process for site analysis

●       How can we boast of Australian Vernacular Design if we don’t have a catalogue of it? - Study of Australia’s inland vernacular.

●       How can we be good architects if we don’t know how to build? - Hands on construction, Can’t Break Your Hip House

●       How can ‘Architecture’ do more? - Working with Healthabitat

●       The broad reality of Aboriginal housing is that it is poor functioning. How can we have the biggest impact on people's living environment in the face of climate change? - Data backed passive upgrades, Cool Living

Owen Kelly

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Owen Kelly grew up in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Throughout his career he has initiated exhibitions, public design talks and events (on rooftops) and was instrumental in starting the Healthabitat Nepal Sanitation Studio at the University of Newcastle.

Owen has worked on a range of residential, commercial, public and interior projects in his own business, with The Shed Collective and Incidental Architecture (Sydney) as well as being a sessional academic at The University of Sydney and the University of Newcastle.

Now in Mparntwe alongside Dogspike Design he works with Susan Dugdale and Associates and continues remote work as an accredited team leader with Healthabitat.

Owen is a registered architect in the Northern Territory.

Bobbie Bayley

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Bobbie Bayley grew up in the Hunter Valley, NSW. Bobbie finished her undergraduate studies in South Carolina, USA, and undertook an internship in Dallas, Texas, in 2015, followed by cultural studies in South America. She has been instrumental in community work with various groups including (out)fit and Healthabitat, and institutions such as Ozetecture.

She was awarded the prestigious Byera Hadley scholarship in 2017 to undertake The Grand Section, Stuttgart IBA International Summer School scholarship in 2019, and the 2020 MADE scholarship from The Sydney Opera House to carry out a 6-week multidisciplinary project in Denmark.

Alongside Dogspike Design, Bobbie works as a Project Manager for Healthabitat and is carrying out research on improving the Thermal Performance of NT Aboriginal Community Housing in the face of climate change – Cool Living. Cool Living was awarded the Construction & Practice Prize in the 2023 NSW Student Architecture Awards.

Bobbie is a nationally accredited Building Designer.

Bobbie and Owen have been awarded nationally by the Australian Institute of Architects.

Members can access a free recording of this event here.