This is our show at 3553. Our practice has always made small models. They’re not the proper models you see in books and monographs. They’re done quickly and generally done once, to fix an idea in time. Our models are made to help us remember. They are a way of holding an intention. We might describe part of that intention as a ‘condition’ and/or an ‘exclusion’. A condition is about remaking the situation or site we’ve been asked to work in. An exclusion is about sneaking things into a design process that have been omitted from a brief. These models capture only essential strategies – their scale prevents reliance on form, detail, and materiality (all dead ends for urban projects). In this sense, they are mnemonic objects – physical statements that allow us to remember the essential parti of the thing, and that ward against any future dilution or normalisation of it. They have been displayed in groupings of colour. The painting on the floor of the gallery is a 1:1 drawing of our RMIT bollard (project 079) and the rail installed in the gallery is a section line through the bollard’s centre. It’s a way of permitting people skate on a thing that was originally designed to exclude them.