Everywhen: dirty algorithms to agitate a more appropriate occupation of Australia

A lot of planning policy in Australia feels like fantasy; predicated on things we no longer believe in and responding to the perceived realities of somewhere more desirable. Nowhere is it this more clear than in the North of Australia. The current fantasy was transplanted from England and has prevailed for 230 years. It is a built discourse of denial; designing out more than 60,000 years of occupation by First Nations People, 4 billion years of geology, the diverse culture of present-day publics, the extreme climate and its geographic isolation.<br><br>No commercial or government practice can deal with the complexities of these difficult pasts and presents. This requires a different way of working. This PhD becomes an exploration of a different way of working; a practice of provocation.<br><br>This practice of provocation uses dirty techniques and algorithms to disable and break inappropriate cultural logics and liberate new models of occupation. The research is delivered as a series of provocations that reveal new ways of seeing and thinking about ownership and title, history and time, the coast and the inland, the centre and isolation.<br><br>The projects are set in the everywhen, that is to say, they respond to all times simultaneously; past, present, and future. The everywhen contextualises and abstracts contemporary colonial constructs and situating the projects in it, enables me to both reveal the fantasy of contemporary best practice urban design, and incense an appetite for a more appropriate alternative.