As an editorial team of seven postgraduate and two undergraduate students entering our final years of study, the professional practice of architecture is not as radical as we hope it to be. We find ourselves facing a future that crumbles underfoot with each timid step.

Paradise is dissatisfied with the echo chamber that is architectural discourse in Australia. The cloistered pages of traditional academic journals stifle most genuine messages with inaccessible jargon or theoretical wank. This discourse is produced by the academic, for the academic, primarily to meet the institutional quota. On the other hand, the glossy feeds of popular architectural media serve only to sell the image, the service, or the mythology of artistic genius. Laboured obsessions with the autonomous object and our self-image as a creative field distract us from the reality that we are a service industry, fully entwined and implicated in the global flows of capital and carbon…