These Are The Projects We Do Together

We are architects, designers, makers, caretakers, curators, programmers and educators. We believe in the importance of public space, equally accessible to all.

These Are The Projects We Do Together are an interdisciplinary team who operate creative spaces and design and deliver a wide range of creative projects. We focus on education and experimentation across all our projects and sites.

Our practice is committed to developing experimental ideas in the fields of art, architecture and education through the design, programming and ongoing operation of Balam Balam Place and The Quarry.

Led by Millie Cattlin and Joseph Norster, the team has a hands-on approach with an attitude defined by generosity and caretaking towards community, infrastructure, local community and the public.

These Are The Projects We Do Together has earned a reputation working predominantly with ‘problematic’ sites. Through architecture, design, embedded education, maintenance, caretaking, operations, creative program and open access, the practice seeks to reposition these ‘problematic’ sites as crucial, creative and socially inclusive spaces and communities.

Currently working across two project-sites — Balam Balam Place is a purpose‑built creative and community precinct with space for community groups to meet and gather, and for arts practices to develop new work in affordable and flexible settings. The Quarry is a sandstone quarry in Victoria’s Otway Ranges, undergoing rehabilitation and purchased by the practice as a large-scale multi-generational research, art, design and education site.

We operate a ‘projects-in-projects’ model, where major projects accommodate and foster a wide range of smaller collaborative projects that contribute to the health and vitality of the larger project-ecosystem. These smaller projects are often self-initiated, have public outcomes and involve bringing together industry, creative practitioners and student groups.

Our work is predominantly self-initiated, and stems from a desire to do the right thing and a genuine curiosity in the world.