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PARKiosk is conceived as a public marker: a lightweight, mobile, and temporary structure that operates both as a functional kiosk and as a testing ground for ideas. Part of an ongoing body of work by Surrounding Objects exploring materiality, construction, and small-scale architectural interventions across the scales of furniture and architecture, the project reinterprets common materials into new spatial forms through repetition, aggregation, and direct assembly. PARKiosk explores notions of openness, transience, and function while existing on the periphery of architecture, object, and public space.
Drawing inspiration from Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione (“self-design”), the project embraces elementary techniques and direct assembly as a means of understanding material, process, and intention. PARKiosk reflects on the kiosk as a public typology associated with exchange, shelter, display, and gathering. Exposed to weather, time, and use, the structure stands not as a final resolution, but as part of an ongoing search for a sincere and enduring standard of practice.
14 - 24 May 2026
Gasworks Creative Precinct
Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 11am – 4pm
Opening Day: Saturday, 16 May, 8am - 4pm
Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and is curated and delivered by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Visit designweek.melbourne to view the full program.
Gasworks Creative Precinct
Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 11am – 4pm
Opening Day: Saturday, 16 May, 8am - 4pm
Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and is curated and delivered by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Visit designweek.melbourne to view the full program.
Surrounding Objects™ is a design studio/workshop working across furniture, objects, installations, interiors, and architectural environments.
The practice explores processes of making, production, collaboration, and material research through projects that range from temporary structures and public installations to furniture and built works.
Often beginning with common or overlooked materials, the work explores questions of materiality, economy, construction, and methods of assembly. Surrounding Objects presents these works in varying formats as a living archive of ideas, collaborations, and built projects developed over time.
David Getty (USA) and Stephanie Getty (Indonesia) received their Masters in Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design in 2010. They worked for Salmela Architect in Duluth, Minnesota (USA) before relocating to Jakarta, Indonesia in 2014 to run their design studio, Studio Getty. In 2020, they launched Surrounding Objects at the Greenhouse section of the Stockholm Furniture Fair. They are now based in Naarm (Melbourne), where David is the Resident Sculptor at Gasworks Arts Park.
Surrounding Objects acknowledge the Aboriginal Traditional Owners of Country throughout Victoria, their ongoing connection to this land and we pay our respects to their culture and their Elders past, present and future.