Marian Macken is Associate Professor in Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her creative practice research and writing focus on architectural drawing, time and architecture and design pedagogy. Her books include Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice, published as part of the Routledge Design Research in Architecture series, and Our Concealed Ballast.