Place Agency — Care with Georgina Blix + Anthony Clarke — Part 1
In this episode our conversation partners are engaged by host Angelique Edmonds in discussion of the theme of care. Both Georgina and Anthony bring great attunement and deep listening in their work creating social value through design.
In this episode the conversation covers:
- How an ethics of care emerged through practice with complex needs
- Designing for neurodiversity including sensory safety, autonomy, and dignity
- Emotional and sensory safety as design drivers
- Anthony's early projects — Profile House and Hungry Hands — and how they reshaped his practice
- Why the design process itself can be the project
- Engagement methods that work when standard approaches don't
About the guests
Anthony Clarke (PhD) is a practicing Australian architect, scholar, writer, and founding director of the award-winning practice BLOXAS – A Practice for Empathic and Experimental Architecture. Anthony's work focuses on the relationship between architecture and care, rearticulating practice through innovative and reflexive methodologies. BLOXAS and Anthony have been widely recognised both nationally and internationally through publication and public engagement. Anthony is a Dean's Visiting Professor at Columbia University – GSAPP and is an active educator at various Australian Universities including Monash University (MADA). Anthony, alongside Dr Jos Boys and Associate Professor John Gardner were the series editors for the publication Neurodivergence and Architecture published by Elsevier in 2022. Anthony's forthcoming book, On Care and Architecture – An Auto-Ethnographic Approach (Routledge, 2026) presents an innovative methodology combining auto-ethnography and design research to articulate new principles for care-centred architectural practice.
Georgina Blix is the founder and director of Blix Architecture, a research-led design studio with a focus on design for wellbeing. Her work explores how to define wellbeing, then translate this research into real world projects in masterplanning, housing, aged care, education and public spaces. In 2025 she released her Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship research based on travels around the world exploring how we can design for wellbeing and measure it in housing. Her research explores intergenerational design, design for trauma and how to improve housing for social connection. This was launched in July 2025 in Australia with the NSW Minister for Housing and Mental Health Rose Jackson and the NSW Commissioner for Mental Health Jennifer Black. As a practising architect and pracademic, Georgina has taught at Sydney University, been published in Bulletin Magazine, regularly speaks at conferences, and has co-authored research into wellbeing with Sydney University.
Our host Angelique Edmonds has a passion for design education, social value and public engagement. Trained as an architect, she operates professionally as a Senior Lecturer in Architecture & Sustainable Design at UniSA and independently as the founder and Creative Director of the School for Creating Change. Her 2020 book Connecting People, Place & Design (published by Intellect UK) draws together fifteen years of practice and research regarding human relationships to place, our capacities to connect with one another and place, and the extent to which contemporary public design mechanisms allow public participation.
Links discussed in this episode
Credits
Anthony Clarke:
Instagram: @bloxas
LinkedIn
Georgina Blix:
Instagram: @blix_architecture
LinkedIn
This program has been made possible with support from the Alastair Swayn Foundation. Find out more at alastairswaynfoundation.org
Angelique Edmonds:
Instagram: @angelique.edmonds
LinkedIn: @angelique.edmonds
Website: schoolforcreatingchange.com
Production + Editing: @apenning_
