“Architecture does not stand outside time. Buildings, public spaces, streets, towns and cities change through the creative (mis)use of citizens, the weather, the seasons and cycles of construction and demolition. However, as Adrian Forty states, 'The tendency of capitalist culture (is) to turn ideas and relationships into things whose fixity obscures reality'. How then do we avoid this tendency to fix architecture and instead, embed fluidity, change, playfulness, responsiveness....in fact, how do we embody 'liveness' in our designs?” - Carolyn Butterworth & Ellen Page, Studio LiveWorks, 2013
Studio Liveworks is interested in architecture that nurtures a relationship between the citizen and the city space, thereby providing the conditions for an active, if unpredictable, future and working creatively with sites and people at length and in detail, using live investigations, animated drawings or kinetic installations to evolve projects with temporal and social complexity. The Studio borr
