Andrew Copolov

Architectural practitioner and researcher specialising in social infrastructure and spatial justice. I develop community spaces for precarious workers, advise government departments on inclusive urban policy, and create frameworks for equitable architectural practice. 

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Publications

︎  Lata, L. N., Copolov, A., & Azizi, R. (2025). The everyday lives of gig workers in Melbourne. Urban Geography, 1–10.

︎ Lata, L. N., & Copolov, A. (2025). Parasitic platform urbanism in Dhaka and Melbourne. Human Geography, 18(3), 333-344.

︎ Copolov, A. (2023). ‘The Urban Staffroom: Imagining Infrastructures of Care and Solidarity in Melbourne, Lo Squaderno, 65, 19-22.
Online Articles

︎ Notes on Anachronism in Australian Art, TERRITO/REALITIES, 2022

︎ Work Songs, Grapevine, 2021

︎ David’s Transterranean Dream, Montez Press Radio, 2021

︎ Semionautics Report, CLOT Magazine, 2021

︎ Gold Farmers, veinte20, 2020

︎ Organising Attention: Art Practice as Building Preservation, &&& Journal, 2020

︎ Along the Liquid Path, &&& Journal, 2019

Flow State

This third-year Bachelor of Architecture design studio explored how the distribution of goods could become a civic process. Each student designed a distribution centre incorporating a public amenity.  Examples included an e-waste recycling facility and makerspace, a textile recycling plant and exhibition space, a media archive, and an autoparts distribution and repair centre crossed with a labour school. These projects reimagine logistical buildings as sites of public engagement and solidarity, challenging logics of efficiency, convenience, and instant gratification in favour of sustainability, collectivity, and care. Working across scales, from the parcel to the city, students proposed ways to make consumers aware of the impacts of how they consume. 

︎ Featured student work