About
The culture of living closer together.
Assemble Papers is an online publication for small footprint living, covering art, design, architecture, urbanism, the environment and financial affairs. Reflecting an ‘ethicurean*’ approach to life, Assemble Papers stands for optimism. From culture and knowledge through to what we eat and buy, Assemble Papers believes that how we live and what we consume matters.
We treat our readership with the utmost respect, as intelligent peers with whom we share values, knowledge and stories. Appealing to both left and right sides of the brain, Assemble Papers features content that aims for ingenuity and inventiveness, while taking a thoughtful, considered and practical approach to the clutter of contemporary life. Assemble Papers is published by Assemble, an architecture, design and property development company based in Melbourne.
Launched in 2012, Assemble Papers publishes work by and about a stellar mix of people; words, ideas and images related to living small. New content is published on a weekly basis and is distributed via our free e-newsletter every Friday morning, 11am AEST. We like people. If you like what you see and would like to contribute or just say hola, ni hao, bonjour, guten-tag or g’day, get in touch.
*ethicurean: an ethical and epicurean approach
This world is but a canvas to our imagination
– Henry David Thoreau
FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS
Eugenia Lim
Eugenia is the editor of Assemble Papers. She has a weakness for the film "Wayne’s World" and contemporary art that mixes the high and low brow. Euge has contributed as a writer or artist to Three Thousand, RealTime, UnMagazine, Artlink, El Pais Newspaper (Spain), Picture Skew, The Age, Figuring Landscapes & Site Unseen. Euge is a practising artist who exhibits her work locally and internationally.
Marc Martin
Marc Martin is an illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. Working with watercolours, felt-tip pens, ink, pencil, scanned textures and computer, Marc’s work is a world of dense colour, rich textures, and the odd scribble. Having formally trained as a graphic designer, he splits his time between his design studio Lanz+Martin, and commissioned illustrations for various clients.
Rachel Michel
Rachel Michel’s background is in botany, environmentalism and development. Originally from England she lives between Peru, Australia and Catalonia in Spain. Currently, Rachel is researching planning and policy management in historic environments and vernacular gardens.
Paul Barbera
Paul Barbera is a roving eye with a global reputation as an interiors and lifestyle photographer who works with the likes of Vogue Living, Elle Decor, Frame, View on Color, Bloom, Grazia, Black Book & AD China. Based in NYC, Paul completed a BFA at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1994. His blog Where They Create (documenting the creative spaces of artists & designers) was published by Frame in 2011.
Georgia Nowak
Georgia Nowak is an architect and co-director at TONE studio, working alongside Dhiren Das across architecture, design, art and installations. Having studied architecture and sculpture, Georgia has worked in Melbourne and Stockholm, resulting in her strong affinity with the Scandinavian way of living.
Rafaela Pandolfini
Rafaela Pandolfini is a Sydney-based photographer and video artist. Through intricate studies of performance, dance and the decorative, Rafaela explores contemporary ritual. Rafaela's images of nightlife are often published online in The Thousands, Good God Small Club and Oyster. Her work is held privately in collections throughout Australia, the UK & USA.
Grace McQuilten
Grace McQuilten is the founder of The Social Studio, an art historian, curator, sometimes-artist and author of Art in Consumer Culture (Ashgate, 2011). Her work in community development has taught her to have a sense of humour when it comes to money, bureaucracy and social politics.
Pino Demaio
Giuseppe (Pino)’s background is in design, branding and marketing and he is a director of Assemble. While Pino's known for the creativity he offers high-profile clients through his agency The Locals, he is also famous for his beard – one of the most coveted face-warmers in Melbourne. Pino provides creative direction for Assemble Papers.
Gillian Hutchison
Gill Hutchison fell into book editing for 11 years then leapt into digital producing around 2011 and hasn't looked back. She holds onto her love of words by reading voraciously and blogging enthusiastically – but it's surfing that makes her heart sing.
Joanna Kawecki
Joanna is the co-editor and founder of Ala Champfest, a London and Melbourne-based printed publication focused on curiosity and investigations into creativity and cultural insight. She is Australian correspondent for Japan-based SHIFT, a contributing writer for POST-NEW, IndesignLive and Design Quarterly, and a multidisciplinary talent in jewellery and creative direction for print.
Elizabeth Kulas
Elizabeth Kulas is currently completing a minor thesis in Art History at the University of Melbourne. Freelance writing allows her to share her incurable curiosity about people, visual culture and food. She loves cooking, eating and the sound of the German language.
Leon Goh
Leon Goh is a freelance writer based in Melbourne. He has contributed to Eyeline, UnMagazine, Artlink, Art & Australia, Ala Champfest and Runway Magazine and is a regular contributor to Broadsheet and Japan-based SHIFT. Leon has a predilection for cycling, running sports technology and is always open to the possibility of being swept up into an internet research shoe spiral.
James Stephens
James Stephens is a lawyer practicing in commercial, constitutional and native title law. His qualifications also include: living in an apartment, a building and design degree and writing and editing architectural publications.
Ben Keck
Ben is one of the directors of Assemble and his background is in finance, property and law. Ben provides editorial support on the Practical Matters section and is a meticulous proof reader. He is a keen soccer player and an advocate of the siesta.
Arthur Holland Michel
Arthur Holland Michel was born in Cusco, Peru. Since then, he has lived on four continents, most recently in the US, where he is founding an interdisciplinary research and art group on drones at Bard College. Arthur is a writer, editor, cyclist and gastronome.
Quino Holland
Quino Holland is an architect and co-director of Assemble. An Associate at Jackson Clements Burrows, Quino is also a keen gardener and cyclist who is most happy in the great outdoors or contemplating brutalist architecture (what a nerd! - ed.). Isambard Kingdom Brunel is an enduring hero.
Alessandro Demaio
Alessandro is a doctor with a Masters in Public Health. He is a PhD fellow in Global Health with the University of Copenhagen and a visiting research fellow at Harvard Medical School. His interests include epidemiology, sustainability, social determinants of health and development processes. He lectures for the University of Copenhagen & Charité, Berlin and is a columnist for The Conversation.
Asha Bee Abraham
Asha Bee Abraham is a human ecologist who works at various points on the lines connecting sustainability, community development and art. She has a particular interest in urban resilience and the connections between people and place.
Tim Riley
Tim Riley is the principal of Property Collectives. Property Collectives helps groups of friends and family invest in property by sharing their money, time, skills and knowledge.
Jess Brent
Jessica Brent is the co-editor and art director of Condiment magazine, a photographer, and a member of Sibling: a multi disciplinary design studio that works on projects with socially orientated outcomes. She loves food, friends, buildings and nature, and likes to take photographs of all of these things.
Sam Nathan
Sam Nathan joined Charter Keck Cramer in 2000 and is a Director of the firm’s Residential Projects Practice Group. Specialising in CBD, city fringe and inner urban medium density and mixed use developments, Sam provides strategic and project specific advice to all market stakeholders.
Rob Papaleo
Rob Papaleo joined Charter Keck Cramer in 1997, establishing the Strategic Research business unit. He became a Director in 2002. Rob’s research and diversity of experience provides an appreciation of wider issues impacting upon the performance of property markets at both the macro and site-specific levels.
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Brendan McKnight
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Josh Gardiner
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