mone acknowledges and extends deep respect to the historic, present and emerging first nations people of the Gadigal nation of the Eora lands, stolen territory that has never been ceded. It acknowledges the ancient ecological and cultural practices of indigenous communities in collaboration with the landscape, waterways and atmosphere of so-called Australia, and commits to listen and learn.
verb: to bring to mind what ought to be done, instigate, bring to mind what should not be forgotten, remind, suggest, prompt, teach, ask of a person, remember, to think.
noun: community, company, society, common property, communion, companionship, cohabitation, common, collective.
mone is an acronym for museum of native ecology, a sporadic collection of design experiments that illuminate processes of making and interaction, both human and non-human. This ‘museum’ has no fixed location, no entry or exit, no tickets, no donors or board of members. Its temporary collection is the unfinished city, temporary project, imperfect idea or juvenile plants in propagation from seed, awaiting spring. The permanent collection are the so-called spheres; bio, hydro, litho, atmo and techno. A deep-time tiramisu enfolding highways and regional infrastructures thanks to which we orchestrate our contemporary lives. The two are in a constant state of flux.
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.
mapping future memory is an ongoing workshop and project where sites and structures are reflected on by the communities then future opportunities are imagined for them. It is a kind of subverted real-estate agency. The first iteration took place in Queenstown, Tasmania as part of the Unconformity artist-in-residence program. Those ideas were aired as part of Melbourne Design Week 2022 in the online exhibition ‘Other Spaces’ curated by Amy Evans.
emergence is 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.
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.
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.
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.
daleko is a fictional future world where the concept of planetary scale of waste has been reimagined through animated and written narratives. It is the final project of Eleanor Peres, Anastasia Sinitsyna, Tigran Kostandyan and Tim Nosov of The Terraforming education program at Strelka Institute for Design, Architecture and Media in 2020. This is one of nine fantastic provocations on a planetary plan for a viable future, watch them on youtube. Daleko is presented as part of Planetary Commons at the 2020 Tbilisi Architecture Biennale. Eduardo Harry Luerson framed daleko as the case study for “Re-Entangling Design and Science Fiction” in the International Journal of Film and Media Arts.
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.
earth speed is a short video and poem with Soundscape by fabrics (Alex Psaltis) spotify , soundcloud.
These are experiments and collaborations of Eleanor Peres, registered architect NSW #12157, seasonal academic, graduate of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney and team member of Sibling Architecture (present) and ZUS in Rotterdam, Kengo Kuma and Associates (KKAA) in Tokyo, Hayball and BVN Sydney (past).
Eleanor is a 2020 Unconformity artist-in-residence and recipient of the Marten Bequest 2020.
eleanor@mone-studio.com