Sits on the jury for every assessed pin-up, with no stake in your semester beyond the plan in front of them.
- Role
- Visiting critic
- Affiliation
- Kesselring & Marek, urban design practice
- Contact
- Does not take student email. Their feedback arrives at the jury — Weeks 4, 9 and 12.
Sunniva is a principal at Kesselring & Marek, where they have spent fifteen years making district-scale masterplans survive contact with the people who have to build them. They are not a member of the teaching team, and that is the entire point of having them.
The visiting critic has not watched you build your district. They were not at the desk crit where you explained the reasoning, or the Week 5 session where the transit spine made sense to everyone in the room. They arrive with your screenshots, your defence memo and the clock the brief names — six minutes in Week 4, four at the Week 9 wall, fifteen at the capstone — which is roughly what a plan gets in professional practice before somebody decides about it.
That makes the jury the studio’s best test of whether an argument is actually in the work or only in your head. Students find this the hardest room of the semester and, in the exit surveys, the most useful one.