PRACTICE

TRAFFIC is a collaborative design practice working across architecture, urbanism and computation.

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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WRITING

Axiomatic Urbanism: Probabilistic and stochastic cities of the extreme present2025CAADRIA

Post-Material Practices - The Digital Harvest Map: Tracking material flow and tracing future use2025CAADRIA

Post-cadastral Determinism: Unravelling Urban Cartographies, Valuation, Behaviour and Decision-making in Realtime2024Cumulus Association, MOME Budapest

Nothing to See Here: Hidden Conflict in Australian Capital Cities, MONU#372024MONU, BOARD Publishers

Pattern Recognition—The Big Smart Transactional City, in The Physical and the Digital City2024Intellect

Pattern, Like, User2024The Site Magazine

Altered Carbon: Staging architectural, urban, material, and spatial practices between scarcity and abundance2024Institut d’Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya

Cities As Multiples: Emulation In Urban Form, From Colonial Capitals to Nodal Suburbs2024AMPS

Zero Carbon Precinct: Designing The Protocols, Overrun and Domain Of Energy Transition2024AMPS, NY

(Un)real Estates2024Media Architecture Biennale Conference

The Metapolis – Cities Between a Ripple and a Blur, Connectivity and creativity in times of conflict2023Academia Press, Cumulus Association

Intensive Boundaries and Liminality: What drives Melbourne’s Suburban Sprawl
2023SAHANZ, Auckland


A Hundred Local Cities and the Crisis of Commuting: How Nodal Suburbs Shaped the Most Radical Change in Melbourne’s Suburban Development, 1859 -19802022SAHANZ, Adelaide

The Temporal City: cities in and apart from the present, MONU #352022BOARD Publishers

Edge Conditions: Invented Peripheries, Hidden Centres2021Australasian UHPH Group

The City as a Service2021AMPS

Ultra: Positions and Polarities Beyond Crisis2021SAHANZ

The Temporal City - The Agency Of Big Data2021S.ARCH

Pestilential Cities - Cities as Spheres for Pathogens, Epidemics and Wellbeing, MONU#332020MONU, Bruil & van de Staaij

The City & Complexity - Life, Design & Commerce 2020AMPS

Transactional Urbanism - Resilience in the Epoch of Collaborative Consumption2019Cumulus Conference Proceedings Rovaniemi

Provenance - Emergence, Emulations and Disjunctions in Urban Melbourne2018Can't Stop Won't Stop: Qualitative Density and Endless Mobility2016Association for Sustainability in Business Inc. 

Studio Mumbai's MPavilion is a radical departure from its predecessors, The Architectural Review2016EMAP Publishing Limited

E:Studio: Virtual City>Future City, Urban Pamphleteer2015University College London, Urban Lab+

Pritzker’s Challenge: Recognition in the Age of Creative Partnerships2013ARCHDAILY

Landscape + Urbanism2010UDRI, MIT



WRITING for NICHE MEDIA

Collins House: Bates Smart, Architectural Review Asia Pacific2016Niche Media

Invisible Architecture: Atelier Ten, Architectural Review Asia Pacific2016Niche Media

King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture, Architectural Review Asia Pacific2016Niche Media

The new Australian Dream, Architectural Design Review online2016Niche Media

The Floor, the Sky and the City Across the Harbour, Architectural Review Asia Pacific2016Niche Media

The Future of Ageing, Architectural Review Asia Pacific2016Niche MediaRevisiting the Residential work of Charles Correa, Architectural Design Review online2015Niche Media

The Architecture of Ageing, Architectural Design Review online2015Niche Media

Catalytic Urban Housing, Architectural Review Asia Pacific2015Niche Media

Future Towers: Under Contrusction, MVRDV in Pune, India, Architectural Design Review online2015Niche Media

In Conversation - Catalytic Urban Housing, Architectural Review Asia Pacific2015Niche Media

Visual Arts Institutional Campus (Raj Rewal Associates), Architectural Design Review online2015Niche Media

The Quays (McBride Charles Ryan), Architectural Design Review online2014Niche Media

House on a Stream, Architectural Review Asia Pacific2013Niche Media

Mumbai: Banyan Park (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects), Architectural Review Asia Pacific2013Niche Media



WRITING & PUBLICATIONS for URBAN DESIGN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, MUMBAI

Mumbai Reader ‘102011UDRI

Mumbai Reader ‘092010UDRI

Mumbai Reader ‘082009UDRI

Mumbai Reader ‘072008UDRI



OTHER

The Practice of Spatial Thinking: Differentiation, Processes by Leon Van Schaik, SueAnne Ware, Colin Fudge, Geoffrey London (editor: Ian Nazareth)
2020The Pink Book, By Practice, By Invitation. 1986-2011 (Third Edition) by Leon van Schaik, Anna Johnson (editor: Ian Nazareth)2019ACTAR




A collaborative design practice working across architecture, urbanism, and computation.                     We observe, research, lecture, analyse, design, speculate, make, and exhibit.