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We are interested in behaviour, form, the behaviour of form and patterns of occupation of the city and its architecture through the lens of procedural and process-driven experimentation.
This methodology is deployed as a mechanism to engage with the real, the hyper-real and the counterfactual.
We observe, research, lecture, analyse, design, speculate, make and exhibit.
Located in Melbourne, Australia, we have global projects, interests and collaborations, primarily in Australia, Europe and Asia.
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PhD, M.Arch, B.Arch,
Ian Nazareth is the founder and director of TRAFFIC, an architectural and urban design practice whose work explores immersive, speculative, and post-carbon futures for cities across physical and digital domains. He is also an architect, researcher, and Director of the Super Urban Lab at RMIT University.
His professional practice, research, and teaching focus on the relationship between architecture and the city, and his work has been exhibited and published internationally, including at the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, the Barcelona Architecture Festival, and the Media Architecture Biennale.
Ian’s research situates architecture within broader technological, political, and ecological systems, focusing on how computation, sensing technologies, and governance stacks reorganise spatial imaginaries, civic infrastructures, and environmental futures. His research engages questions of post-carbon urbanism, infrastructural power, and the political life of data, positioning design as a critical method for interrogating how cities are made, and remade, through systems of information.
He is a Research Leader within the School of Architecture & Urban Design and a senior member of RMIT’s Post-Carbon Research Centre, where he explores strategies for decarbonising the built environment and its infrastructures to foster sustainable, equitable, and resilient futures. He has held prior academic and leadership roles including Program Director and Head of Urban Design at RMIT University, and Associate Director at the Urban Design Research Institute in Mumbai.
At the Super Urban Lab, Ian leads collaborative research and speculative projects that investigate the technological, political, and ecological conditions shaping contemporary cities. The lab engages design practice with governance, policy, and civic institutions, supporting experimental inquiry into urban futures.
Ian is an architect educated in India and Australia, with prior professional registration in India. He serves as series co-editor for The Practice of Spatial Thinking (ACTAR), and co-hosts SUP – The Super Urban Podcast. Ian regularly contributes to architectural and urban discourse through lectures, symposia, podcasts, and exhibitions. His writing has appeared in The Architectural Review (UK), Architectural Review Asia Pacific, Australian Design Review and MONU: Magazine on Urbanism.
M.Arch, B.PD Arch, ARBV 17781
Co-founder of TRAFFIC
(now independent; collaborating on selected projects)