Research
Lawrence's research and writing (primarily a joint project with a long-standing collaborator Thea Brejzek*) continue to explore the cosmopoietic (world-making) and epistemological (knowledge-creating) functions of the physical model in Art, Theatre and Architecture, its virtual equivalence inside dialogical models of interactivity and immersion and its application in terms of performative approaches to architecture and spatial design. Current research is centred around virtual environments and interfaces, culminating in the upcoming publication, The Virtual Model in Theatre, Art and Architecture: Making Worlds London: Bloomsbury; this monograph examines the distinct genealogies and unique properties of virtual models and environments in contemporary expanded practices and their capacity for world-making. In a second ongoing strand of practice, recent exhibitions and residencies in Vilnius, France, Cyprus, Cairo, Amman and Italy operate in dialogue with and underpin his writing and creative production, articulating the role of memory and the persistence of spatiotemporal elements of culturally significant sites, buildings and landscapes. This continuing body of work contributes to a discourse that explores and documents the enduring qualities of specific places that resonate beyond their physical site within the broader discourses of rewilding, decolonisation and biodiversity.