ASHLEIGH CROFTS
Urban Exploring + Architecting
What I'm all about...
- I strive to move fragments of the city forward, towards a better urban future and quality of life.
- I engage in the pursuit of reinvigorating architecture’s social agenda via design research, public engagement, and community outreach.
- I explore unseen places and new ways forward, embracing uncertainty for its creative potential.
- I join forces with those who celebrate people-friendly city building to create welcoming spaces that inspire meaningful connection and wonder.
- I practice, not just proclaim my values, acknowledging that the world needs dreamers that do.
Design Research Tools
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Photography
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Sketching
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Audio Recording
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Collage
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Storyboarding
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Animations + Video
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GPS Tracking
“Our gait is as personal as a fingerprint, and so are our multiple itineraries. Knowledge is grown along the myriad of paths we take”
— Tim Ingold
“Architecture is thus read as having the capacity to induce slow speeds, to inhabit silences, to trace new cultural vacancies and derelict spaces.”
— Felicity D. Scott
“Understanding cities and architecture – and communicating that understanding – involves telling real stories about real places…”
— Borden, Kerr, Pivaro, & Rendell
“Only an awareness of the influences of the existing environment can encourage the critique of the present conditions of daily life…”
— Sadie Plant
“It’s from the fragments,
the forgotten bits, that you actually read the world”
— Borden, Kerr, Pivaro, & Rendell