Making Space as Matrix Exhibition,Parsons School of Design (2025)
filmmaker, curatorial assistant and AV technician
Images of exhibition visitors engaging with my films at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at Parsons School of Design. Taken by Auden Barbour.
"We started by exploring how interior spaces could be reimagined through feminist, queer, and intersectional perspectives. Looking at how spatial hierarchies reinforce systems of power and began thinking about space not just as physical, but as social and political-something that can include or exclude, liberate or constrain.
We asked what it means to design for everyone, and who is usually left out. Through research, prototyping, and collaboration, we started to challenge dominant ideas in architecture and interior design.
In the exhibition, we want to show how spaces can function as archives, studios, and gathering places - how they can be flexible, visible, and inclusive. We also want to show how feminist legacies of design are shaping new ways of living and working together, while confronting racism, inequality, and climate change"
Space as Matrix Curatorial Statement
'Making Space as Matrix' began as a Parsons School of Design class taught by Michele Gorman and Christine Facella and grew into a live build and pedagogical experiment exploring legacies of second-wave feminist architecture, through the theory and praxis of Susana Torre and London’s Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative. The exhibition is a multidisciplinary collaboration between designers, architects, archivists, artists, fabricators, and curators. I got involved on a freelance basis as an assistant to Michele Gorman, the exhibition lead designer, as an AV technician who set up the gallery's recording room, and all digital medias within the gallery space, and as a filmmaker commissioned to make two minidocumentaries for the exhibition, which I will elaborate on below.
In July 2025, myself and my collaborator Mia Vines Booth travelled to Carboneras, a seaside town in Andalusia, Spain, to interview Argentinian feminist architect Susana Torre in her home that took 35 years to build. This house is the manifestation of her Space as Matrix principles - a spatial logic that favors indeterminacy and opposes enclosure, division, and hierarchy. We filmed the house and interviewed her to reflect on the legacy of her spatial theory and what it was like to be a feminist architect in such a male-dominated field. The interview is 30 minutes long and we used a Canon Xa30 4K Camcorder.
To help orient gallery visitors, I was asked to produce a minidocumentary that traces the exhibition's full arc—from its origins in conversations between Michele Gorman and Brian Grath, through the exploratory process of student work, to its final expression in the gallery space. The film combines archival images with original footage.
Filming Susana's interview at the 'House of Meanings' in Spain, filmed with Mia Vines Booth and edited by me.
Gallery Opening Night
Recording Room Setup
Exhibition Process Film
Filmmaker and Editor
Opening shot of the interview. Full interview coming soon.
Stills taken by me.