What follows are some speculative thoughts on the relation between the terms ‘field’ and ‘work’ articulated in response to the fascinating essays and projects contained within Architecture and Field/Work. My purpose is to offer some ideas about how the research encapsulated within this book can be considered with respect to the wider context of interdisciplinary spatial practice and to reflect upon how future research in architectural design and other practice-led arenas might make productive links between academia and the profession, specifically, as this book suggests to me, by ‘working (through) the field’.

Publication details: ‘Working (Through) the Field:/’, Suzanne Ewing, Jéremie McGowan, Chris Speed, Victoria Clare Bernie (eds) Architecture and Field/Work, (London: Routledge, 2011).