Surrender is the renunciation of control.  When freely given it is an act of ultimate generosity; a leap into potentiality and the rapture of the unknown.  A community is described in this project not by collective similarities but by an individual's willingness to surrender their ideas to another.

Over twenty architects, designers, philosophers and photographers across Sydney have participated in a series of creative conversations, which transform the image of this harbour city from generic postcard perfection to a set of multiplicitous, individual urban narratives.

These are networks of surrender, whose ambition is not the cohesion of a finished, consumerable product, but the construction of new communities for creative work.

Sydney, Australia
"Networks of surrender."
Communities section of the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale

Curators:
Sam Spurr, Nicole Bearman, David Burns & Adrian Lahoud

Photography:
Jack Dunbar and Tosh van Veenendaal