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SUPERSCALE is Vei Tan and Patrick Macasaet.

SUPERSCALE is a research-led and speculative multidimensional creative practice. We superscale our architectural training to permeate disciplinary boundaries - unearthing new realities, possibilities, techniques and imaginings for architectural speculation, pedagogy and design. Our landscape of works is highly differentiated spanning speculative architecture, spatial explorations, publications, writings, exhibitions, pedagogy, installations and furniture, self-build projects, curation of cultural events, virtual worlds and gaming. We deliberately and consciously echo beyond the borders of our architectural discipline to engage with audiences external to the discipline and profession.

We practice architecture a little bit differently… from questions of culture, technology, virtual environments, cryptocurrencies, gaming, environment, world affairs, design processes, typology, the moving image, making, self-building, entrepreneurship, economy, contemporary infrastructures, pedagogy, anime and more… We are interested in many.

Collaborators and past team members: Bing Jie Chang, Tracey Doan, Justin Dinh, Youjia Huang, Zechen HuangVincent Lai, Shwen Lee, Desmond Looi, Rachelle Low, Suheri Purnomo, Yang Ren, Mery Samosir, Phoebe Wong, Chenxi Yang, Yichen Yang & Shuming Zhou - with thanks.

+ OPEN WORLD ARCHITECTURE: On gaming, gamification, moving image, virtual environments, worlding polemics and world-building.
Moonshot | Wander Wonder | City of Gold

+ METATYPES: On typological and procedural explorations.
World of Workcraft - One/Two | 20th Biennale of Sydney | You’re My Type

+ PEDAGOGICAL TECTONICS: On experimental approaches, curation, explorations and research of and on design studio pedagogy.
After Series | Learning Frontiers | Crit Models | Industry Partnered Studios

+ POLYPHONIC CULTURES. On creative practice as social enabler.
Bridging | InWest Initiative | MIMAWxEtsy

+ MAKING w/MIMAW: On small-scale making, objects and experiences.
Taba | Supermarket | Arcade

PUBLICATIONS
+ Influence: Edmond & Corrigan + Peter Corrigan
+ Practice Futures 1: Digital Fabrication and Future Practice

JOURNALS
+ The Agile, Culture-Building Hacker: Advancing through uncertainty. Charrette Journal 2021.

PROCEEDINGS
+ Learning Frontiers: Beyond Frontiers. 2nd ADR 2019. Sydney, Australia.
+ Learning Frontiers: Concourse for Ideas. ACSA Teachers Conference 2019. Antwerp, Belgium.
+ Learning Frontiers: Curation of Learning Environments for Innovation. AAE 2018. London, UK.
+ Design Studio as Research Catalysts: Unpacking a Research Trajectory.1st ADR 2018. Sydney, Australia.

RUMINATIONS, REFLECTIONS & RAMBLINGS
+ Pedagogical Tectonics in the Virtual Epoch
+ Polyphonic, Planar and Projective: Surfacing ‘other’ studio cultures.
+ Oblique Contributions: The collective intelligence of Practice, Research and Community

+ MOONSHOT. SUPERSCALE’s gaming and virtual testnet coming soon.
+ WANDER WONDER. Post-anthropocentric ‘naturaficial’ open-world environments.
+ CITY OF GOLD. Didactic virtual environments and pedagogy.
+ MIMAWISMS. Questioning the everyday through contemporary mixed media.

Random. Ruminations. Creative detours. Soon.

SUPERSCALE acknowledges the Traditional Owners, the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, on whose land we meet, share and work. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and extend our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from all nations of this land.