FreeRange

Nicola Holden; Waiheke Island

Designer and foodie. Loves sprouting things, eating bananas, and Paris.

Sam Soundy: Colombo

Sam is Landscape Designer that lives and works in Sri Lanka. He is the Design and Development Consultant and Co-ordinator for the Butterfly Peace Gardens. Sam spentds much of his time dreaming about reggae concerts in Sri Lanka while driving between his home on the outskirts of Colombo and the two buildings sites on Sri Lanka’s east and south coasts.

Amanda Armstrong; Oxford

Amanda’s background is in politics and international relations, with a bit of art thrown into the mix. She has no fixed abode at present, but is on her way with her Husband to the English countryside near Oxford, where she will be looking after a couple of kids and getting involved in one or two community organisations. She is inspired by faith, craftivism, good food and good conversations.

John Baker: Auckland

“I’m following my 2B stylus across paper valleys and mountains. Some days it covers quite a bit of ground, other days it doesn’t go anywhere at all and is happy just to admire the scenery.”

Celia Goldsmith & Nick Sargent: Wellington

Celia and Nick are two architecture grads living in Wellington. Celia tutors, does private architectural work and has a scholarship to attend the Terrefarm workshop on urban agriculture in late 2009. Nick currently supports his predominantly architectural habits through tutoring at Victoria University.

Tania Sawicki Mead: Wellington

Currently trying to mash together philosophy, international politics, contemporary dance/theatre and a little freeranging on the side. likes: fine wines,fine conversation and hectic colour schemes. dislikes: overcast days, ideological rigidity, michael laws. hope to one day live up to my polish heritage and climb mountains, fortified only by vodka, yelling ‘strong like ox!’ to fellow travellers.

Dion Howard: Wellington

Wellington nurse & photographer, who does lots of other stuff when he can.

Ruth Hill: Wellington

May or may not be a journalists for a leading wellington daily newspaper.

Paul Bradley: Wellington

Paul Bradley is an artist and illustrator who is passionate about environmental and social sustainability and likes to explore these ideas in his artwork. He also teaches art inside Rimutaka Prison and performs as a VJ.

Julia Molloy: New York

Julia currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in Architecture in 2004, and an M.Arch. from Columbia University. While Julia has spent most of her adult life in New York City, she developed her affinity to nature, adventure, and playful design while growing up in wooded hills of Northern California.

Rajarshi Rakesh Sahai: Hoshangabad

Raj is an Architect, Urban Development Planner, Development Economist and Environmental Planner. His Professional work includes consultancy on issues of Sustainability, Gender, Rehabilitation & Resettlement, Cost-Benefit Analyses, Monitoring & Evaluation, Water Supply & Sanitation, Architecture and Urban Planning etc. He currently resides in his farmhouse at Hoshangabad in India, practicing agriculture, and running his ethical Architectural practice.

Byron Kinnaird; Melbourne

I studied Architecture in Wellington, New Zealand, including a formative stint in Denmark, at the Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole [www.karch.dk]. I’ve since been an active teacher of architecture across disciplines and levels, including interior & landscape architecture, design, and architecture studios. I am most confused (and excited I suppose) by architecture’s vulnerability as a discipline, exasperated by the gap between architects and architecture and everyone-else. I feel optimistically that this Gap is the project most of us are committed to. I am the current Editor of a web-published newsletter called Spe[a]k [www.productspec.net/speak], for Productspec [www.productspec.net] who provide an online database of products and services for the New Zealand building industry.

Hana Bojangles; Nomadic

By the time Bojangles finished her MA dissertation on paradise and just how poetic it was that elephants roll around in the dirt, she had accumulated an ambitious to-do list. So far she’s checked off: Having the gumption to bicycle around Indochina; Holding her breath to swim with humpback whales on migration; Mastering an industrial sewing machine to make puppets and costumes for Cirque de Soleil; Learning to play the bumble boogie on piano; And she is still figuring out how to really be in many places at once, in a beneficial, community-creating, wonder-reviving, way.

Win Bennett; Whangarei

Background of 20yrs in general practice and 15years as a health bureaucrat. Interests are population health and reducing inequalities. Also interest in social determinants of health and social and environmental change and implications for health.

Alain Bruner; Paris

My general philosophy in life is to widely spread the scope of my learning, impact on others, contribution to greater goods, and friendships to establish myself not as a specialist but allround truthsayer (if that means anything). this means combining active roles in various facets of my life, with passive roles of observation and reflection in others. hopefully with this combination i will obtain a more diverse understanding of our/my life here in welli at this point in grand scheme of things, and be able to guide others by understanding on a first hand basis. maybe im talking about life guidance. (who knows…….this is a spiel). My identity (or lack thereof) is a blend of South-African, English, French, (American), kiwi, and jew. so am at odds as to where my allegience lies. maybe i can just choose Architect and cross all borders.

The area of design i want to persue is ‘body prosthetics’. this could mean designing intimate peripheries which allow movements and actions to be performed, a place to refine skills in seemingly mundane spaces. combining passions with everyday life and work etc. looking at direct relationships between people their muscle memory and the designed world. a broader sort of ergonomics. create beautiful architecture through the movements and habitual patterns of the occupant.

Kate Amore; Wellington/Hawkes Bay/ Melbourne

Doctor of love primarily. medicine and homelessness also feature.

Shakey Mo; Melbourne

Shakey’s frozen custard treats are probably the thing I ate. Ah, college life. I used to sample quite a few different things before I found my true calling last weekend. It hurt tremendously. hmmm mmm…and sometimes I would get a Butter Pecan root beer float. I love it!!!

Shaun Donovan; Wellington

Born in ‘67’ I grew up in the South Island in well defined seasons amongst moist bush, dry grass and sheep shit. I left home mid teens much to the relief of parents and siblings. Lived in the North Island ever since with several lengthy sojourns to Asia and Europe for experiential purposes. I never could understand traveling with loads of fellow countrymen or treating the world like a theme park. I prefer to immerse myself and blend into the place I am visiting. Soak. My life took a violent twist (in the best possible way) due to too much soaking and I wound up in Wellington in love with her, my wife, our house and other architecture. I work for architects and I love it. I am sober in love it and I am looking for to a great summer.

Charles Baker; Auckland

I’m trying to make computer games for the most part… and trying not to spend too much time on the computer but having a lot of difficulty doing so. Perhaps I should choose more compatible goals.

Gabrielle Kuiper; Sydney

Hello, I’m an urban planner who is passionate about sustainable cities. I previously co-founded www.active.org.au and been involved in the development of www.sydney.indymedia.org – among other social change activities.

Nicola Zimmerman; Auckland

I’m 24 years old, studied architecture at Auck uni and graduated in 2005. Half Kiwi, half Swiss (mother from Basel). Currently working for a residential architecure firm called ‘Xsite Architects’ with 2 other grads and the director Malcolm Taylor. Part of a Brazillian Drum band called AK SAMBA which has up to 50 members with up to 30 playing at gigs/concerts/festivals. I play the Agogo in this. (Metal high/low bells). Currently living in a warehouse flat in Newmarket above a pool hall with 7 others. Plenty of space to paint and cheep rent allowing for more exciting things such as travel. I just returned from New York in July and am planning a short trip over to Cambodia in Oct…..

Michael Dann; Wellington

The realities of science are often far weirder than you imagine, and take media releases about science with a grain of salt, they spin it hard like any other ‘news.

Nick Sargent; Wellington

After entering my skills/interests/goals/favourite school subjects into CareerQuest I discovered I am the type of person best suited to 1. Teaching Drama, 2. Curating Museums and 3. Directing Films. I discovered this after completing a (protracted) degree in Architecture.

Federico Monsalve; Auckland

Federico Monsalve is a writer based in ?. He is currently employed by the Sunday Star Times although soon returning to the more fulfilling life of creativity and all the trials and satisfactions it entails.

Shenuka Desylva; Wellington

Joe Garlick; Wellington

Graphic-designer/ideas/Wellington/music nerd/mp3blog-whore/radio-clubDJ

Noel Meek; Wellington

I am a performer and teacher based in Wellington, NZ. I have recently started People Theatre, essentially theatre about people. I am interested, as a performer, in the point where different performance disciplines meet (Western acting and dancing, non-western performance styles, writing and dramaturgy, improvisation, etc).

Greta Stoutjesdijk; Melbourne

G Val, gõnger, interested in photography, film, words, architecture in all its forms, travel, little cakes and learning to fly in the trapeze, at present trying to work in the system but having problems getting out of bed.

Hugo Geddes; Auckland

Environmental scientist and geographer. Interested in renewable energy and resources in the domestic, commercial and industrial environment. Particularly concerned with the generation and disposal of waste and the recycling practices that currently exist in NZ.

Coco Smooth; Auckland

A child of the south pacific; lawyer-cum-planner, wannabe architect, and some time writer. New Zealander; a Samoan-Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Niuean-Maori “Kiwi”. Geography: Brought up in a tiny bach in a small coastal village in northeast Northland, New Zealand. Now living in green West Auckland, and working in the darkest heart of Remuera, East Auckland, New Zealand.

What do I do?:

All sorts of things for local/regional authorities on the interface between – town planning, infrastructure, transportation, resource management, environmental, local government, central/federal government – law, policy, and processes.

Kahu Scott; Auckland

Now is it not true that you Barnaby only but recently returned from a recent architectural workshop near Vancover, Canada. This Burnaby Newsleader web site is offering C.A.R.E(communty arts resource Exchange) programs to non profit organisations i.e Fuckin art Zines and other half arsed ideas. So my question to you is – do you have a world domination plan that involves using alias’s created by changing one letter of your name. I don’t claim to have unfulrled the whole of your plan. However, I envisage the shifting of international funds from Canada through the Islands of Hispaniola and Tortuga and eventually to a Plus One bank account.

Profile – KAhu Charlie scott; age 25 : description; Old man to young Girl

Ari Stevens; Wellington

Sally Ogle; Wellington

Flic Morris; Wellington

Jaime Royo Olid; Cambridge

Jaime Royo Olid is a young architect interested on the creation of ‘structures of solidarity’. He is the founder of the Cambridge University European Union Society ( www.cueus.org) and of Architecture Sans Frontières-UK (www.asf-uk.org) starting with the Cambridge chapter in 2002. He has completed a BA and Diploma in Architecture and the MPhil in Development Studies, and is now a Research Assistant in Sustainable Humane Habitat at Cambridge University Department of Architecture. Jaime has also completed a specialisation course on International Cooperation for Development and ‘Basic Habitat’ at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) in 2005. He has academic and practical development experience in a number of projects:

-Addressing potential options for the Alang Shipbreaking Yards slums, Gujarat, India (2004),
-Study of analysis methodologies of slums in Mumbai (2005) and
-Post-Tsunami construction in Tamil Nadu as a volunteer for ‘Architecture & Development’, 2005.
In 2004 Jaime worked as coordinator of ASF-International Network facilitating the creation of: ASF-London, ASF-Paris, ASF-Diepenbeek (Belgium) and ASF-ETSAM (Architecture School Madrid) and participated in UN-Habitat World Urban Forum II (Barcelona 2004) and Shelter Peer Review, UNDP, (Geneva 2004).
In November 2006 Jaime will join the Europen Comission Delegation in Cape Verde as Junior Expert to deal with the management and monitoring of urban services and infrastructure projects in the archopielago.

Julia Molloy; New York

From San Francisco, California. Studied architecture in New York, Ghana, Italy, and Venezuela. Currently working for the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia U. on a project concerning education, prisons, and re-building New Orleans. Interested in the history and design of politics, power, and film. One more year of grad school!

Sally Janssen; Auckland

the world and word ( wor d ) are my adventureship and therefore i perceive : the promotion of honest global communication and critique with eyepatches firmly off : to be a damn goodly enterprise.

as a practising urban pirate,
[freelance navigator
bookmaker
lithographer
half mast writer]
i feel i could assist.

I graduated from Elam in 2000 majoring in printmaking. I predominantly lithograph when I can get my hands on a studio. I work with text and language and at the moment am making a series off one off hand made books in broad monikers like ‘being an urban pirate’ and ‘the 24 hours of the day in 24 colours’. I write a lot as well and this informs and has reformed my book making practise. I suppose all the books are now filled in instead of being half made objects that other people finish with their writing.

I’ve recently returned from being based in the U.K for three years and got a little involved with artisjustaword.co.uk a lovely bunch of people based in oxford who do a lot of community involving things as well as more traditional gallery based stuff. I was also part of a collective in south england that was interdiscinaplinary with filmakers criting printmakers and sculpters giving painters the heave ho about their line drawing. Incredibly fun.

Welfe Bowyer; Melbourne

Welfe Bowyer [aka Neon Sleep] is a crap graphic designer, wanna-be photographer, and useless part time architectural graduate. I am also obsessed with wellington and it inhabitants. YUM!

Dale Fincham; Wellington

Half-Japanese, vegetarian architect seeks meaningful dialogue and literary dabbling with like-minded individuals.

Maddy Streicek; San Francisco

Dean Shirriffs; Duniden

I am in my third year at art school in Duniden.
one day I would like a own a race horse.

Seth Hickling; 5th elevation

For now, all that I would really like to say about myself is that I am keen to talk with any of you if you would like to talk with me, and I am keen to discuss anything that you would like to discuss, including myself. I have studied architecture and philosophy but I really don’t want to pigeon hole myself or my interests through these associations. What I am really interested in is making the most of life: sharing our ideas, interests, and endeavours, working together to address what we each believe is most important. Yeah so I would like to discuss anything with anybody who is interested.

Gina Moss; Melbourne

I like puppets which probably puts me in a box as a weirdo. I’m fascinated by light and shadow at the moment so we will see where that takes me.. and I love live performance because each one only ever exists once and you had to be there to see it. this world and what happens to it, its up to us. so we might as well do something good. I think freerange is good.

Candy Chang; Helsinki

Candy is into design for social change and likes to make important things fun and engaging. She was an art director at The New York Times, co-founded a design house and record label called Red Antenna, and is currently studying urban planning at Columbia University.

Jennifer Van den Bussche; Johannesburg.

ok, i like chocolate, i don’t like no chocolate.
i can’t stand wankers, the world is a far bigger place.
i’d much rather do than sit around and talk.
i can’t write to save myself, but can talk a snail dry.
i like simon and garfunkel, in fact they look a bit like barnaby.
i fart alot.
and I adore architecture.

Sophia Sprenger; London

Jane Caught; Melbourne

I live in Melbourne and Im looking to shake myself out of my current preoccupation with ‘pretentious nihilism’…..erm; over the last few years I have collaborated on a number of projects that lie between art and architecture, spatial investigations etc. in galleries around melbourne, in found spaces, etc. Im two years out of my degree (B Arch). I still have a romantic attraction to utopias and play.

Genevieve Blanchett; Sydney

Gen blanchett captained her first pirate ship at the tender age of three when she ran away from home, and has been sailing the high seas in search of adventure ever since. current course set for the mythical lands of of ‘A’rchitecture. full steam ahead.

Dan Griffen; roaming

Dear buccaneers, my name is dan: I had, for a time, studied numbers; these have since become sound, which I watch bounce off the walls of london buildings all the time wondering why my sense of perfection requires things be perpendicular. This is two sentences.

Thomas Hick; Belgium

Hmm, I’d like to see myself as an ambiguous Belgian character dropped here in this creative part of the world. It creates a big soup of conflicting ideas that naturally must result in original thoughts. For the sake of clarity, I’d like to focus mainly on the physical bits that surround us, big or small, dull or overwhelmingly beautiful but in general dismissed by the common eye…

Tim Gittos; Wellington

Eloise Veber; France

I am 26, just beginning to understand; my past, my parents past, an explanation for why i still feel like a child, the virtues of young minded-ness, the reason why i identify with bjork and wny I will eventually live in the bush.

Ripeka Walker; Melbourne

“a fresh moko, what would that be? currently in servitude, auckland, new zealand. terrible networker, but hoping this goes somewhere, and i can hold the coat tails.

Chris Cottrel; Auckland

Chris cottrell studied architecture at the university of auckland, new zealand. he now balances his time between teaching, curating a performance night, some speculative architectural propositions and an art practice based around creating atmosphere through installation, projection, video and sound work.

Chook Norris; Wellington

The original cynical romantic appropriator obsessed with all things vertical.

Rebecca Ter Borg; Auckland

Nappy-brained illustrator in temporary cunning disguise as a housewife.

Ellen Andersen; Tauranga

Jeremy Gray; Auckland

Motivated non-architect. not looking to build a brand new world..
I have a few nagging criticisms of western thought and I am currently ( at writing this) about to start riding a motorbike from Capetown to London through the African Continent. The motorbike is a week late and looks like it will be more than that. I’m not too phased here in Capetown.

Mark Henley; Auckland

a free ranger by association, i believe not in the use of capitals, but equality for all the letters of our alphabet. i rub image from form, whilst medling with creative young tertiary minds in the hub of wellington, aotearoa. mark henley, 3 dimensionalist.

Miriam Silvester; Wellington

I love making things. It is important to me that the things I make do not adversively effect people and the environment. I have BDES majoring in Textile design and at present am attempting to complete my Masters of Design which is along the lines of – USE LESS: Encouraging personalisation, repair and maintenance so that products can be useful and used for an extended period of time.

Barnaby Bennett; roaming

Chief Egg and Pirate Editor. I grew up in pole house in the bush hear the megotropolis of Whangarei; a misspent youth racing flaxwood boats downstream and playing computer games has left my tattered ego with dreams of world peace through domination. Holding me back from this is a youthful fear of commitment, an inability to work for more than 20min straight, and a long held characteristic of been ‘easily distracted by ‘friends’. (which should be my epitaph)

Lars Von Minden; Wellington

I am co-ordinator of housing for UNOPS (Office for Project Services) in the Vanni; that is the Liberation Tamil Tigers Eelam (LTTE) controlled area of North East Sri Lanka. Currenlty we are seeing a ‘low intensity war’, mines, claymores, kidnapping, murders, some fantastic propoganda. Essentially there is a rather brutal and impovrished government; the LTTE trying to establish a nation of some description within a larger brutal, corrupt and wealthy government.

Cynically; we build houses for people who don’t like them, sponsored by a government that doesnt want us to build them.

More optimistically, we build houses for survivors of the tsunami and the past 30 years of conflict. In the process we bring wealth, some form of accountability and the golden goose of ‘capacity builiding’. Plus we provide an endless source of interest for the bemused locals.

Gerald Melling; Wellington/Kalutara

Hey Barnaby… the problem is, my arse is never off the dance floor… Which explains why I haven’t responded – overload, all that. Not disinterest. For example, I am now the self-appointed project manager for Kalutara, which is accounting for all my downtime at the moment. And my son and his wife have just made me a grandsomething with twins, for god’s sake! So – for now – a spectator I must be. Perhaps a little later I might run onto the park…

Marcell Allen; Auckland

Moving and still image artist, one half of Rus n Bunny mixed media photographic. Idealist, daydreamer and cynic. Starsign: Pisces Sheep.

Mark Kingsley; Hong Kong

less is more
less is a bore
i am a whore
everyday life is war…

~ life’s war is more or less a whore for everyday bores ~

Marton Mazzog; Italy

i am hungarian, was born in budapest in 1977. my dad was a programmer, which was a relatively new thing in the 80s. as his knowledge was quite special he worked abroad a lot (first in germany, later in america). because of him we moved to california where he died which forced us to move back to hungary. i completed high school in 1996 and then went to study industrial design at the technical university of budapest. i finished 4 years of the 5 year course, then got sick of the school and did a year of traveling/working (i spent a fair amount of time on the middle east, its an awesome place, i still love it). i started saving up in 1999 to go to nz to do a degree in architecture, which i started in 2001 at VUW and finished in 2005. after school i did some architectural work for a firm in wellington and then did tutoring at the school of architecure. i recently have moved back to my home country and now i am currently working in budapest for a firm called zoboki demeter and associates. this is pretty good for the time, but i’m also pretty eager to learn more and go to different
places.

Nathaniel Corum; Kilauea

Irene Overney; Suisee

Pascal Waldburger; Herisau

Male, age 27, Zürich, Switzerland, made an apprenticeship in an architecture office as draftsman, finished 2002, worked in several Offices since then, now in the 2.year at the ETH Zürich studying architecture. I am very interested in city planning, urban researches and the reutilization. I defeat big shopping malls because their architectural expression is fake and disneyish, the atmosphere that is created animates the visitors to buy a bunch of stuff they don’t really use. My position is to change things less radical but with more sensitiveness, especially by reusing old built volumes instead of tearing it down and completely build it new. I think the architectural discourse has to think about how we can reduce space, time and materials but increase the living standard and comfort. Often less is more.

Peter Wood; Wellington

Bex Galloway; Wellington

Publicist, writer, talker, spinner. I get paid for making up hyperbolic media release titles like ‘Deceit, Decadence and Damnation in Devilish Drama’. Ha.’

Anya Georgijevec; Vancouver

James Coyle; Wellington

My name is Reverend Black keys and I choose the scales that involve complex movements first, with an aim to simplify later. I throw technique at a problem first then as it quickly gets me confused I tend to slow down and get to the bottom of a melodic issue. People often say to me that the main problem is the foundation of my pieces of music is hard to simply annotate, leaving me determined to discover a madness in my method.

Glen Coombridge;Wellington

G.Coombridge, 28 3/4. postgrad wine science student and social drinker.

Willy Baker; Auckland

The idea of a cross-discipline magazine appeals to me particularly as I am still only two years out the the ‘hegemonic meme factory’ myself, and I am ready to start seeing how other people see the world – and if it is your job, your academic training that shapes your view of the state of our society. I myself have a very egalitarian view of life and I often wonder if this comes from my discipline of choice (computer science) which is a relatively new field still trying to find itself. Computer science still has areas in which the accepted ethics and practice are still ill defined, and because of this any memes that you may be injected with while being educated are still malleable and able to bend to your wishes. It also has an interesting movement arising within it that has become much more prevalent (read: commercially viable) in the last few years, namely the philosophy of Open Source – which has the free distribution of ideas and knowledge as it’s foundation. It has a similar ‘feel’ to me as this FreeRange idea which is perhaps why it appeals to me so readily.