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Worrall, Julian Bette, Urs Le Messurier, Richard Joseph School of Architecture and Built Environment 2022 https://hdl.handle.net/2440/136732 Book 1: Projects -- Book 2: Written Inquiry This research examines how an architect might contribute to the social and public dimensions of contemporary Australian cities through small-scale, low-tech, object-based interventions. Employing a research-by-design methodology, original interventions that invigorate everyday, abandoned and overlooked city spaces are created and interrogated. The unlocking of behaviours and corresponding explosions of social activity reveal a latent public potential, suggesting an untapped spatial determinism. Intervention sites are conceptualised as ‘micropia’ which are anomalous yet beneficial ruptures in the urban fabric that emerge from an organic engagement with everyday life. These ‘micropia’ put into question ‘grand designs’ devised and imposed from the preserve of a detached professionalism. Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Architecture and the Built Environment , 2022 en Research by design, creative practice research, architecture, urbanism, public space, small-scale interventions Unlocking Physical Spaces Thesis This electronic version is made publicly available by the University of Adelaide in accordance with its open access policy for student theses. Copyright in this thesis remains with the author. This thesis may incorporate third party material which has been used by the author pursuant to Fair Dealing exceptions. If you are the owner of any included third party copyright material you wish to be removed from this electronic version, please complete the take down form located at: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/legals Copyright material has been removed from digital thesis.open.access