Moving from Australia in 2005, Igea Troiani is an academic (Oxford Brookes University) writer, filmmaker and registered architect (in Australia). She has been practicing architecture, full and part time since 1989. She was co-founder with Andrew Dawson of the collaborative architectural studio HAPPENiNC in Brisbane (1997-2005) where they made small to medium scale domestic and commercial work, stage sets and films about architectural production.