Play, Her Way…

Year: 2024

Tutor: Jason Dibbs

Studio: Thesis Studio (M.Arch)

Co-ordinator: Deborah Barnstone

The national image of sport is slowly shifting toward our female athletes as slithers of success are achieved, but we have a long way to go. Behind these moments, there are still major setbacks and hurdles of marginalisation, discrimination, contestation, sexism and gender-based violence. It’s 2024 and we are still lurking in the shadows of sport...

Play, Her Way… thinking through the now, for the future, prioritises female sport and future-proofs for sport yet to exist or be recognised, inter-generational mentorship amongst all athlete levels and community, and relationships and dialogues yet to form amongst female sport.

A fantasyland of female sport - where imagination, dreams and goals have translated into architecture. A new architecture fuses into a future city, in the Western Sydney Aerotropolis’ - Bradfield…There is an immediacy and urgency for the premise of this project in female sport and the sporting landscape...

PLAY, HER WAY...

PLAY, HER WAY...

co-design interviews…

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