What happens to architectural knowledge when the files won’t open
About
Dr. Kirsten M Day ARBV FRAIA
Kirsten Day is an architect and researcher examining the institutional infrastructures of architecture: the rules, records, technologies and professional systems through which the built environment is produced and governed.
Her work asks how apparently administrative systems become architectural forces. Building codes determine which bodies are recognised. Contracts distribute authority and responsibility. Software and file formats determine which design records survive. AI destabilises established ideas of authorship, competence and liability. Educational and professional structures determine how these systems are reproduced — or changed.
Across research in digital preservation, inclusive design and professional practice, her work examines who and what these systems make visible, what they exclude, and how they might be redesigned to produce greater public value.
Contact: dayk@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Kirsten M Day 