The Dusts of Construction is a slow audio reading that revalues dusts, debris, and the crumbly bits of buildings as metabolic material to be recouped, reconstituted, and redesigned in architectural practice. It is based on real construction cooking experiments conducted for D.E.P.O.T. / Gross Domestic Practices, an exhibition on salvage and material exchange co-designed by Amelyn Ng, Gabriel Vergara, and Christine Giorgio, at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, September 2023. Visit the D.E.P.O.T. at https://depot.directory/

Amelyn Ng is a Singaporean-Australian architect, cartoonist, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. Through research, drawing, and exhibitions, her creative practice explores architecture as media; environmental matter as information. Working across scales and between digital and physical mediums, she seeks counter-narratives and alternative representations to architecture’s status quo, particularly around climate and social questions.