A career atlas + ecosystem,
interconnected + interdisciplinary.
Atlas of Practice is a workshop platform for architectural and interdisciplinary students and graduates created by AIS Alumni Grace Simmonds. It treats careers as living ecosystems, interconnected networks of institutions, projects, relationships, skills and values, and gives students the spatial tools to map them. This is not a chronology of jobs, but a map of how opportunities, relationships and values shape your practice over time.
Spatial, not linear
Careers branch, double-back and cluster. A ladder hides that; an ecosystem reveals it.
Reflection-led
Insight comes from the act of mapping. The artefact is secondary to the realisation.
Interdisciplinary by default
Built for graduates whose practice already crosses architecture, culture, research and community.
Participation and leadership
Practice is shaped as much by how you show up in rooms as by the titles you hold — contribution, organising and care are mappable.
Networks as infrastructure
Relationships, mentors and collectives are not soft extras; they are the scaffolding that carries a practice between projects.
Experimentation and self-direction
Side projects, residencies and self-initiated work are first-class nodes, not detours from a 'real' career.
Unexpected turning points
The pivots, accidents and refusals often matter more than the plan. The map makes them visible instead of editing them out.