With an introduction written by Dini Lee

And...we're back! In our new episode of Archimest In The Making podcast Kimberley and I discuss our thoughts and experiences of sitting under the imposter syndrome umbrella. Join us as we ask ourselves how self-doubt, self-esteem and validation affects our practice and our lives, and how do we cope with this?

This episode is dedicated to Episode One// Searching Value and Validation (with Isabella Peppard Clark)

Notes:

Parlour "Light At The End Of The Tunnel: Know Thyself (with Margaret Devine)

What Is Imposter Syndrome And How Can You Combat It? - Elizabeth Cox - TED

You can find Dini’s Instagram here. You can also find her final semester project here.

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Archemist Podcast is an extension of my blog “Archemist in the Making” - a millennial’s inquisition on architecture’s relationship with anything and everything. You can access written content here!

This is a journal of personal reflections and casual discussions. Opinions shared does not represent the shared opinion of the speaker’s affiliated organisation. Kindly please note that as our views and opinions change over time, and these could differ from past recordings. More information can be found on archemistinthemaking.com.

Stay connected with us:

- Instagram @archemistinthemaking
- Archemist in the Making

Music: Uniq - Bloom https://soundcloud.com/uniqofficial

Disclaimer: This episode may be emotionally taxing and toiling - as we know that sometimes talking about job hunting is extremely difficult for some.

There’s always a mixture of relief and dread during our studies about the next stages - getting hired by a firm. For some, it was relatively straightforward in meeting those expectations. However, for me and Shaun, we graduated during the period in which our industry suffered economically, which resulted in us spending nearly two years (or more) finding ‘employment’ within the architecture industry. Of course, keeping our hopes up wasn't easy - and when plan a didn’t work out for us, what were our plan b’s or c’s? And of course, during our lowest moments, did we consider giving up altogether?

Notes:

Below are websites I’ve used as well as being introduced to during job hunting for an architecture-related job.

AIA - VIC Chapter Job Notice Board

Australian Architecture Job Notice Board

Dezeen Jobs - Australia

Dezeen Jobs (International)

Design Matters

Other places we’d like to recommend - see Defence, Building / Engineering Firms, Developer Firms

You can find Shaun’s photography Instagram @shaunyho and his portfolio of works here.

This episode is dedicated to Just for Laughs - Job Hunting Be Like This; Hanging on by the thread of Sanity During Unemployment

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Archemist Podcast is an extension of my blog “Archemist in the Making” - a millennial’s inquisition on architecture’s relationship with anything and everything. You can access written content here!

This is a journal of personal reflections and casual discussions. Opinions shared does not represent the shared opinion of the speaker’s affiliated organisation. Kindly please note that as our views and opinions change over time, and these could differ from past recordings. More information can be found on archemistinthemaking.com.

*We welcome fresh voices to this collaborative platform, whether it’d be by audio or text. You can join us for future conversations by subscribing to Archemist Podcast!

Stay connected with us:

- Instagram @archemistinthemaking
- Archemist in the Making

Music: Uniq - Bloom https://soundcloud.com/uniqofficial

Starting Season 4 of the podcast, we’re looking at what it means to be passionate about something. Too often, the word is flounced around a lot - and it’s difficult to affirm whether you are passionate about something by your actions. You can be passionate about a subject and admire it from afar, otherwise allow yourself to be consumed by it… 

In this episode, Eastina and I will be exploring our perceptions on what it takes to be passionate about something… and whether we think we’re passionate about what we’re doing now.

Notes:

Before Paris - Tom Misch (2018) - Lyrics can be found here

Related Episodes

Is This What You Wanted? // Will Qu

Is This What You Wanted? // Daniel Moore

Connect with Eastina!
Personal
Medium
LinkedIn
Instagram (@zanitsae_)

Archemist Podcast is an extension of my blog “Archemist in the Making” - a millennial’s inquisition on architecture’s relationship with anything and everything. You can access written content here!

This is a journal of personal reflections and casual discussions. Opinions shared does not represent the shared opinion of the speaker’s affiliated organisation. Kindly please note that as our views and opinions change over time, and these could differ from past recordings. More information can be found on archemistinthemaking.com.

*We’re on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcast now! We welcome fresh voices to this collaborative platform, whether it’d be by audio or text. You can join us for future conversations by subscribing to Archemist Podcast!

Stay connected with us:
- Instagram @archemistinthemaking
- Archemist in the Making

Music: Uniq - Bloom
https://soundcloud.com/uniqofficial

This episode is produced on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people, whom we’d like to acknowledge as the Traditional Owners of the Land. As we are here today to listen and share, we hope that this will inspire everyone who is listening to dedicate a time and space to listen to our First Nation’s stories and celebrate their continuing connection to land and water - for it always was and always will be Aboriginal Land.

To our first year - thank you for leaving us a beautiful memory…

A year later and here we are again. Dini and I are back looking at our architecture journey in 2020 as well as reflecting back to our very first recording. Of course, second-year of architecture school makes you realise a lot of things, but then, when we take our time to look back on our past, we realise how far we’ve come.

We think we’ve definitely grown since our first recording - and who knows, we might be back for another one again!

Notes:

Studio Herman Neutics (Formerly Studio Reliquiae) Instagram

Archemist Podcast Season 1 // Time Capsule: To My First Year

Archemist Podcast is an extension of my blog “Archemist in the Making” - a millennial’s inquisition on architecture’s relationship with anything and everything. You can access written content here!

This is a journal of personal reflections and casual discussions. Opinions shared does not represent the shared opinion of the speaker’s affiliated organisation. Kindly please note that as our views and opinions change over time, and these could differ from past recordings. More information can be found on archemistinthemaking.com.

*We’re on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcast now! We welcome fresh voices to this collaborative platform, whether it’d be by audio or text. You can join us for future conversations by subscribing to Archemist Podcast!

Stay connected with us:

- Instagram @archemistinthemaking
- Archemist in the Making

Music: Uniq - Bloom https://soundcloud.com/uniqofficial

One fateful night in September 2020 - I received a message from a friend who I haven’t heard from six years - who was bursting with ideas about a potential podcast collaboration. Well, two phone calls later, Jina and I established ‘Is This What You Wanted?’, a project that has continued for a busy 5 months. Now that we’ve reached the end - we decided to look back on our journey that has shifted our outlooks and thoughts towards our profession. What were our highlights? Lowlights? And is this what we wanted?

We’d like to thank the following who has been a part of our journey

Yvonne Meng, Graham Ho, Eugenia Tan, Jessica Seneviratna, Will Qu, Daniel Lawson, Denny Chan, Isabella Singal, Kevin Hüi, Tracy Sodder, Daniel Moore

Most importantly - thank you Jina! What would I do without you?

*This episode is produced by Jina He

You can connect with Jina via her Blog, LinkedIn or Instagram (@miss_stingray)

Archemist Podcast is an extension of architecture blog “Archemist in the Making” - a millenial’s inquisition on architecture’s relationship with anything and everything. This is a journal of personal reflections and opinions shared does not represent the shared opinion of the speaker’s affiliated organisation. Kindly please note that as our views and opinions change over time, and these could differ from past recordings. More information can be found on archemistinthemaking.com.

*We’re on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcast now! You can join us for future conversations by subscribing to Archemist Podcast!

Stay connected with us on instagram @archemistinthemaking

Music: Blue Dot Sessions - ‘Pinky’ from Free Music Archivehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/RadioPink/Pinky

P.S.A. Bus Drivers are awesome!!!!!!

Words are really powerful - especially when a single thought can completely switch your career choices. This was the case with Daniel Moore - after a comment made towards his initial dreams, he switched to studying performance and architecture. But what happens when you’ve got two areas of interest? How do you combine them? Join us as Daniel shares with us the influences from his childhood and hobbies that has enabled him to combine two interests together!

Notes:

Open Creative Studio
New Architects Melbourne
New Architects Podcast
Hearing Architecture Podcast
Blinky Bill

You can find out more about Open Creative Studio here or on Instagram (@opencreativestudio), or connect with Daniel via Instagram (@moremooremore). Also, don’t forget to subscribe to Hearing Architecture Podcast on Spotify, Apple or Google Podcast (or on your favourite podcasting platform!)

Archemist Podcast is an extension of architecture blog “Archemist in the Making” - a millenial’s inquisition on architecture’s relationship with anything and everything. This is a journal of personal reflections and opinions shared does not represent the shared opinion of the speaker’s affiliated organisation. Kindly please note that as our views and opinions change over time, and these could differ from past recordings. More information can be found on archemistinthemaking.com.

*We’re on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcast now! You can join us for future conversations by subscribing to Archemist Podcast!

Stay connected with us on Instagram @archemistinthemaking

Music: Blue Dot Sessions - ‘Pinky’ from Free Music Archivehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/RadioPink/Pinky

We’ve all heard of that saying ‘the worst response is a no, so what’s the harm in trying?’. A quick glance on Dezeen’s job notice board and an email later, Jina’s friend Tracy Sodder found herself working for BIG (yes, Bjarke Ingels Group) as their visualiser in New York. From one country to another, Tracy shares with us her transition as well as the decisions that led to this fateful opportunity.

As we’d like to put it We’d rather regret something that we’ve done than something we haven’t done.

Notes:

Dezeen Jobs
BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)
BIG Lego Exhibition

If you’re in the architecture industry and in search of jobs, you can try the following:

LinkedIn
Australian Architecture Job Board (Best to subscribe)
AIA VIC Chapter Job Notice Board - for other states, please redirect your Institute’s respective state page!

Don’t ever give up!

*This episode is produced by Jina He

Archemist Podcast is an extension of architecture blog “Archemist in the Making” - a millenial’s inquisition on architecture’s relationship with anything and everything. This is a journal of personal reflections and opinions shared does not represent the shared opinion of the speaker’s affiliated organisation. Kindly please note that as our views and opinions change over time, and these could differ from past recordings. More information can be found on archemistinthemaking.com.

*We’re on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcast now! You can join us for future conversations by subscribing to Archemist Podcast!

Stay connected with us on instagram @archemistinthemaking

Music: Blue Dot Sessions - ‘Pinky’ from Free Music Archivehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/RadioPink/Pinky

Dear Sponsors - please support Archimarathon!!

There are many ways to share and learn about architecture. Of course, the best way to learn about a project is to see it in person and to discuss and share ideas! But what happens when this is intensified through travelling and seeing a huge amount of architecture in one day? Kevin Hüi (whom many of you would know as Archimarathon) shares with us his career development as well as turning his love for architecture travel that evolved into the beloved Archimarathon!

*This episode was recorded in 2020 and some points and opinions may have changed and shifted!

Notes:
Archimarathon YouTube Channel
Sketchup
Skyscraper City (Forum)
CopyRight - CopyWrong - Archimarathon Video
What Why How - Archimarathon Video

You can find out more about Archimarathon here, Facebook or Instagram (@archimarathon). You can subscribe to their YouTube Channel here, or support them on Patreon here.

Archemist Podcast is an extension of architecture blog “Archemist in the Making” - a millenial’s inquisition on architecture’s relationship with anything and everything. This is a journal of personal reflections and opinions shared does not represent the shared opinion of the speaker’s affiliated organisation. Kindly please note that as our views and opinions change over time, and these could differ from past recordings. More information can be found on archemistinthemaking.com.

*We’re on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcast now! You can join us for future conversations by subscribing to Archemist Podcast!

Stay connected with us on Instagram @archemistinthemaking

Music: Blue Dot Sessions - ‘Pinky’ from Free Music Archivehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/RadioPink/Pinky

A little bit of identity crisis and soul searching in this episode. Jina has invited our lovely friend Isabella Singal (aka Bella) to share with us on her personal journey and thoughts on both the architecture profession and education while juggling other exciting projects! Be it writing, curation and tutoring - it opens up food for thought for sure…

*This episode was recorded in November 2020 - and some media handles may have expired!

Notes:
Source Amnesia | Melbourne Fringe Festival 2020
Vomitus Dialogus
The Architecture Lobby | Victoria Chapter
MSCP (Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy)
Melbourne School of Political Economy
Failing and Flying - Jack Gilbert

You can find out more about Vomitus Dialogus through Facebook or Instagram (@vomitusdialogus); and Architecture Lobby on Facebook or Instagram (@archlobby.victoria). Otherwise, you can connect with Bella through Instagram (@__besin)

*This episode is produced by Jina He

Archemist Podcast is an extension of architecture blog “Archemist in the Making” - a millenial’s inquisition on architecture’s relationship with anything and everything. This is a journal of personal reflections and opinions shared does not represent the shared opinion of the speaker’s affiliated organisation. Kindly please note that as our views and opinions change over time, and these could differ from past recordings. More information can be found on archemistinthemaking.com.

*We’re on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcast now! You can join us for future conversations by subscribing to Archemist Podcast!

Stay connected with us on instagram @archemistinthemaking

Music: Blue Dot Sessions - ‘Pinky’ from Free Music Archivehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/RadioPink/Pinky

*This episode is NOT sponsored!

We know that it’s hard to get away from architecture but still, ever wondered what it would be like to not be in contact with Architecture for a year? Well, we’ve brought on my dear friend Denny Chan to share with us his break in-between his architecture and photography journey before fully stepping into the role of a gin business owner. Join us as we navigate his architecture adventures between UK and HK and beyond!

Notes:

Sofar Sounds

Design Trust

Design Trust Futures Studio

Perfume Trees Gin

You can find out more about Perfume Tress Gin here, otherwise connect with them via Facebook or Instagram (@perfumetreesgin_hk). Alternatively, you can find out more about Denny here or connect with him via Instagram (@dennychankl).

Archemist Podcast is an extension of architecture blog “Archemist in the Making” - a millenial’s inquisition on architecture’s relationship with anything and everything. This is a journal of personal reflections and opinions shared does not represent the shared opinion of the speaker’s affiliated organisation. Kindly please note that as our views and opinions change over time, and these could differ from past recordings. More information can be found on archemistinthemaking.com.

*We’re on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcast now! You can join us for future conversations by subscribing to Archemist Podcast!

Stay connected with us on Instagram @archemistinthemaking

Music: Blue Dot Sessions - ‘Pinky’ from Free Music Archivehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/RadioPink/Pinky