Motivated by the urgency of the challenges we all now face – environmental, social and economic – young architects are inventing new, alternative forms of practice. Taking the format of a staged, live, rolling workshop of events, Making Ways: Alternative architectural practice in Aotearoa included four practices that have emerged in Aotearoa New Zealand in response to this context. If normative architectural practice is the production of a building for a client, set within market conditions, then ‘alternative’ implies a departure from this in the way that architecture might be realised, and in the way architectural knowledge might be employed. Shaping their ways of making architecture by charting a new course through these concerns, each practice developed a week-long project that bought to life aspects of their practice. Sequentially inhabiting the gallery, Objectspace was recast as a hybrid studio, laboratory and wānanga as Making Ways: included lectures, slide shows, interviews, workshops and other evolving live events.

Making Ways was part of the 2019 Festival of Architecture.