A six part lecture series
The Architecture
of Becoming
A framework for human flourishing, building creativity, communication and confidence for life and business. Created by Ros Banksia-Smith, FDIA.
The Architecture of Becoming
Six lectures. One journey.
A framework for human flourishing, building creativity, communication and confidence for life and business. Created by Ros Banksia-Smith, FDIA.
Drawing on more than thirty years designing environments and experiences across Australia and Asia, alongside her own period of profound change, Ros built the framework to help people reconnect with who they are, expand what they believe is possible, and consciously design what comes next.
- 01The Identity BriefUnderstanding the inhabitant
- 02The Discipline of SubtractionCreating space for what is true
- 03The Vision BlueprintCreativity as a compass
- 04The Master PlanTurning vision into reality
- 05EmbodimentMaking identity visible
- 06The Practice of BecomingLiving architecture
The framework is taught live through Ros's programmes and gatherings. See events and programmes →
Ros has spent a career designing the environments people live inside. Her deepest work now asks a different question: what is designing the person inside them?
For decades her brief was space: hotels, retreats, homes, the quiet choreography of how a room makes a person feel. The work taught her something harder to draw. Places do not only hold our lives. They participate in them.
In 2019 a cancer diagnosis changed the brief entirely, and the same design instinct turned inward. Who are we beneath what we do? What happens to identity when the plan is taken away? Her speaking begins there: at the meeting point of outer environment and inner architecture, where design experience and lived experience agree.
The Portfolio
Banksia Collection — the design portfolio behind Banksia Collective’s creative practice.
Selected hotel, resort, and residential interiors from Ros Banksia-Smith’s design career.
Read the Portfolio