THE STORY
Emma Jackson is an architect and designer working in Melbourne Australia. Jackson is the daughter of a geologist and spent her first fifteen years as an expatriate living in Holland, England, and West Africa. Her perspective of Australia was always through the lens of another culture, and her perspective on all culture was through the lens of geology. Jackson completed her PhD in 2019 at RMIT University while an academic at RMIT Architecture. Prior to that she worked as a Design Architect at some of Australia’s award-winning practices. Before deciding on a career in design Jackson studied Science at the University of Western Australia and reconciling the differences and similarities between design and science continue to preoccupy her thinking. Emma Jackson founded her own design practice after winning the international Tapestry Design Prize for Architects in 2021. The winning entry, Time Shouts, was a geological provocation of the East Coast of Australia.
OUR STUDIO
Our studio is a team of Architects and Designers that are passionate about design as a enabler to connect us and our spaces to the ground we live on. We also love that design is an opportunity to collaborate, to work with master craftspeople and understand the opportunities inherent in the tools and techniques of each trade. We have a deep respect for the deeply personal role of design. Since our arrival on this planet, we have adorned the places we occupy with culturally meaningful, exquisitely made, design artefacts. What we collect and decide to have around us in our intimate spaces says a lot about who are and our values. We are committed to sustainability at every level of the design process. From reducing material waste and working with local craftspeople, to a longer-term vision for designing inheritable, collectible pieces. Then there is the broadest aspiration, using our design skills to connect us to earth science, and making caring about our continent contagious.