Marta Figueiredo

Jonathon Griggs

Marta Figueiredo is a Portuguese architect & multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. In 2016, she founded her design practice which unites innovative technology and craft to produce playfulness, joy, and sensory experimentation.

Through her work, she wants to challenge beliefs about standardisation, sustainability, and prompt discussions about new ways design can speak to a broader sensory experience. With this approach, Marta is pushing into a new kind of artistic expression in design that aims to instigate a richer, more layered interaction between individual and object.

Marta designed and built Windgate part of of her project future artefacts in 2020.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.