PATCHWORKS MANIFESTO

“Think of the best conversation you could have
and where it might happen
and how it might change your world…”

Patchworking is space-and-time-designed networking; a form of architecturally directed social serendipity. Through a series of interconnected ‘patch’ events we are detailing new conversations into the city.

“Some discussions shift your thinking.
Others offer ways to have your ideas materialised.”

The aim of Patchworks is to stimulate the cultural capital of the city through feeding its social capital. We believe architecture and conversation drive urban vitality and can bring about new forms of urban enterprise.

At each Patchworks event participants gather and partake in strategically designed Patchworking conversations. The architectural environment combines factors of timing, media and spatiality that construct a vivid social architecture.

Human momentum emerges from these heightened spatial exchanges. The city in its own right is continually reborn.


About us.
Patchworks is an enterprise formed of emerging social architects. Social architects are a breed of design thinkers that make visions happen – in architecture, the city and the home. They design places filled with ideas and serendipitous events. They build new models of architectural interaction and new modes of vibrant consumption are born afresh.
We are:
Joanne Jakovich - Senior Lecturer in Architecture, UTS.
UTS Masters of Architecture students: Vida Asrina, Anastasia Borak, Euckan Chan, Edwin Cheng, Gihyun Nicky Choi, Tristan Davison, Harini De Silva, Jason Lam, Ophelia Leung, Pui Sze Ma, Matthew Manos, Maria Ngoc Bich Nguyen, Michael Prakash, Linette Salbashian, Matthew Sales, Zhining Tan, Sam Zaiter.


Where it all started.
We wanted to test architecture’s capacity to program experiences that build value for the city. In our first event, we aimed to enhance the emotional impact in a first meeting situation. We explored travel and movement as emotion-heightening sensations that shift social perception from opposition to one of shared experience. Using the 200m long travelator under Sydney’s Domain Park we built a taxonomy of interaction between groups of two people in conversation. We discerned factors of timing and spatiality that helped construct a vivid social architecture that is the basis of our blueprint today.