mone acknowledges and extends deep respect to the Gadigal peoples of the Eora Nation where we work from, and of the Palawa people of Nipaluna, Lutruwita where we come from. These are both stolen territories where sovereignty was never ceded. We acknowledge the ancient ecological and cultural practices of Indigenous communities with the ecologies, landscapes, waterways, seasons and atmosphere of so-called Australia, and commit to listen, learn and collaborate to illuminate Country and First Nations power
making spaces and objects for living, in collaboration with many others.
mone started as an accidental acronym for a hypothetical project - the museum of native ecology - a sporadic collection of design experiments that illuminate processes of life, making and interaction for all species. It has no fixed lcoation, entry or exit, no tickets, donors or board of members. Its temporary collection is the unfinished city and it is a deep-time tiramisu enfloding highways, landfills and regional infastructures thanks to which we orchestrate our contemporary lives. It is in a constant state of flux. And as it turns out, mone is a real word with layered meanings
(greek) - μονή : dwelling place, abode, residence, a place of staying or remaining, to remain
(verb): to bring to mind what ought to be done, instigate, bring to mind what should not be forgotten, warn, remind, suggest, prompt, teach, instruct, ask of a person, remember
mone (noun): moon, community, company, society, cohabitation, common, collective
Darley Studio is our renovation of a 27sqm apartment in a 1930’s art deco listed block of flats in Sydney that works hard so that life is a little easier, watch the video.
on what earth are you thinking? is a Byera Hadley publication mediating the fractured relationship between architecture and ecology. It is composed of three essays about the scale of this tension - microscopic, intermediary and macroscopic and sixteen case studies from Singapore, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Paris, Milan and New York City.
earth speed is a short video and poem with Soundscape by fabrics (Alex Psaltis) spotify , soundcloud.
Pinnacles, Perth, Pub and Pilbara is a multimedia work created by Eleanor Peres and composed by Alexander Psaltis (Fabrics) with a yarn about gleaning for ISSUE 01 Backyard of Paradise Journal, an Australian architecture research journal “dissatisfied with the echo chamber that is architectural discourse in Australia”. Watch the video.
climate intervention lexicon rejects geoengineering as a silver-bullet saviour of climate change and instead advocates for a holistic and balanced composition of interventions in response to dangerous carbon emissions. This project is a contribution to Strelka Mag’s special edition Revenge of the Real by Eleanor Peres, Tatiana Lyubimova, Vlad Afanasiev and Iani Ziegerman. Download the lexicon.
emergence was a 2021 winter research exhibition at Tin Sheds Gallery in Sydney. It uncovers thirty-five Australian architecture research projects from the archives. Curated by Eleanor Peres, Anna Ewald-Rice, Tiffany Liew, Doug Hamersley and Byron Kinnaird.
forest in a court speculates on legal personhood for earth ecosystems in Contemporary Art Tasmania’s (CAT) online journal. It is a reflection of the work of artists Takani Clark, Selena de Carvalho and Georgia Morgan in the 2020 exhibition re-member.
double standards is a short anecdote questioning the fictional notion of interior and exterior as divided, a submission to Sophie Lanigan’s @sentfolder in good company.
there’s more to green architecture than greenery is a discussion on the expired tropes of sustainability between Eleanor and Poppy Johnston, on The Fifth Estate.
These fragments are experiments and collaborations of Eleanor Peres, registered architect NSW #12157, seasonal academic, masters of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) & TU Delft (Netherlands), with experience working with Sibling Architecture, Hayball and BVN Sydney in Sydney, ZUS in Rotterdam and Kengo Kuma and Associates (KKAA) in Tokyo.
Eleanor is a 2020 Unconformity artist-in-residence and recipient of the Marten Bequest 2020.
eleanor@mone-studio.com