Jason R. Crow and Charity Edwards

Jason R. Crow is a senior lecturer at Monash University and architect in Pennsylvania. His research focuses on how technological change affects material understanding and craft knowledge in architecture. He holds degrees in architecture from Clemson and Iowa State Universities and completed his PhD at McGill University, where he also co-founded the Facility for Architectural Research in Media and Mediation (FARMM). Crow has practiced architecture in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Quebec and held fellowships at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and McGill. His publications explore material culture and architectural history, including his recent monograph, A New Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture (Amsterdam University Press, 2024), which re-examines Gothic architecture through theology, science, and craft.

Charity Edwards is a lecturer in Architecture at Monash University and a practicing architect, with 20 years of experience on projects in Australia and internationally. She continues to collaborate with artists, scientists, and communities to create spaces, landscapes, objects, and urban strategy. Charity’s research highlights the impacts of urbanisation in remote environments and through increasingly autonomous technologies. Charity is also a co-founder of The Afterlives of Cities research collective, which brings together expertise in architecture, astrophysics, and speculative fiction to recover futures through civic creative practice.