Informed by the disturbing rise of global crises requiring innovative solutions to urban space and housing, 'Shelter Union' presents experimental projects by Australian and international artists and architects.

The exhibition and accompanying programs explore new ways of negotiating and inhabiting contemporary built environments that respond to the experience of living in contemporary Sydney and beyond. The exhibition’s fundamental thesis is universal and its scope is global. 'Shelter Union' critically engages with the social and political realities of how we live now, as interpreted through the work of interdisciplinary practitioners using non-traditional materials and methods.

The exhibition articulates, through art, architecture and a fusion of the two, alternative living solutions in an age of unsettlement. 

Visitors to the exhibition can expect to experience experimental architecture practices formulated through different mediums including immersive installations, sculptures, video, photography, audio and research material.

This exhibition challenges traditional notions of architecture and art, stimulating ideas of architectures purpose and how practitioners are pushing boundaries. 'Shelter Union' brings transdisciplinary practice to the forefront, asking audiences to reimagine the social, environmental, economic, and political fabric of our cities and how we will continue to live in urban settings.  

In addition to a major photographic project presented in association with The Big Issue.

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Exhibition curatorium of UNSW Art & Design researchers led by Lucy Ainsworth.