TL;DR was a competition entry for the 2019 National Gallery of Victoria Summer Pavilion. Collaboration with Mark Lane and Lance van Maanen.

TL;DR stands for ‘too long; didn’t read’. It calls for the compression of the main ideas in an online post, to seek clarity or blithely troll a user on the other side of a discursive fence.

TL;DR proposed a space for a public debate to occur: specifically one over the Apple store planned for Melbourne’s Federation Square (which was later knocked back). The design, a not-quite-Apple store, was intended to load the debate with a conceptual tension from the get-go: embodying the intertwined histories of civic and commercial space.

TL;DR did not support a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in the debate itself, but aimed to encourage the direct pronouncements of tastes and discomforts to make the debate less reactionary, more about urban spatial quality, and more productive.

TL;DR was exhibited at RMIT University Design Hub in 2019.