A Creative Ecology: Interview with Studio SML
25 August 2021
With a fairly young design tradition, it was only in recent years that more design studios have become multi-disciplinary. But Randy Chan of Zarch Collaboratives has always embraced the interconnected relationship between art, architecture and design. It was when he joined the art collective, Plastique Kinetic Worms, that he fully realised the potential of a collaborative approach. Being involved in curation, architecture, and art installation, Zarch Collaboratives deconstructs the traditional rules of genre and approach, demonstrating an innovative vision of what design can be.
“For me it’s definitely not the next big job, it’s about bringing up the office’s next generation of people, continuing to perhaps guide them, and continuing to in fact be useful and be relevant within this premise and the community”