ABOUT
The Global Extraction Observatory (GEO) is a research collective examining the effects of energy production and resource extraction through creative practice, scholarship and public engagement. Led by Dr Eduardo Kairuz and Dr Sam Spurr, GEO positions architecture in an expanded field incorporating diverse methods, narratives and perspectives. This position affords new creative approaches producing new knowledge and amplifying visual culture. GEO’s interdisciplinary work forms the basis of pedagogical activities that contribute to prepare a new generation of Australian architects. GEO’s achievements include presentations at prestigious national and international institutions, including the Royal College of Art (UK), the Goldsmiths Centre for Research Architecture (UK), the Centre for 21st Century Humanities at University of Newcastle (AU), and the MPavilion (AU). GEO’s work is the result of a collective effort, only possible thanks to the assistance of key collaborators including Bud Rizk, D’Arcy Newberry-Dupé, Nina Tory-Henderson, Victoria Jackson-Wyatt, and Mark Romei.
DR EDUARDO KAIRUZ
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Dr Eduardo Kairuz is an architect, artist and scholar, as well as an Architecture Lecturer at the Faculty of Art Design & Architecture at Monash University (MADA). His work examines questions of social and climate justice related to space through multiple scales, disciplines and contexts. Eduardo is a co-founder of the Global Extraction Observatory (GEO), a research collective examining the aesthetics of energy production and resource extraction through creative practice, scholarship and public engagement.
Dr Eduardo Kairuz is an architect, artist and scholar, as well as an Architecture Lecturer at the Faculty of Art Design & Architecture at Monash University (MADA). His work examines questions of social and climate justice related to space through multiple scales, disciplines and contexts. Eduardo is a co-founder of the Global Extraction Observatory (GEO), a research collective examining the aesthetics of energy production and resource extraction through creative practice, scholarship and public engagement.
DR SAM SPURR
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Dr Sam Spurr is an architectural theorist, critic and designer, as well as Head of Discipline, Architecture at the School of Architecture and Built Environment at The University of Newcastle (UoN). Her current research on Mining Ideology and Coal Capitalism, examines the agency of architecture to make legible the complex forces at play in the age of the Anthropocene. Through this research Sam is exploring feminist theories of care and collective political subjectivity, ecological systems and indigenous cosmologies in the Australian context of Country.
Dr Sam Spurr is an architectural theorist, critic and designer, as well as Head of Discipline, Architecture at the School of Architecture and Built Environment at The University of Newcastle (UoN). Her current research on Mining Ideology and Coal Capitalism, examines the agency of architecture to make legible the complex forces at play in the age of the Anthropocene. Through this research Sam is exploring feminist theories of care and collective political subjectivity, ecological systems and indigenous cosmologies in the Australian context of Country.