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Radical Research & Re-storying Agency
RRA   Radical Research & Re-storying Agency



Radical Research & Re-storying Agency (RRA) is an architectural-research agency grounded in decolonial methodologies. We re-contextualize space and reveal the multiple stories that shape our world.





Radical Research & Re-storying Agency (RRA) is an architectural-research agency committed to decolonial methodologies. Through research, publications, and community collaborations, we challenge dominant spatial histories and highlight overlooked narratives. Our work fosters radical discourse, bridging disciplines to reimagine architecture, history, and identity collectively.





We offer Research and Consultation packages to architecture firms.

Our work utilises research into historical and spatial analysis. We recognise that architects are visual thinkers therefore our work is both a critical analysis and a visual investigation. We re-appropriate architectural tools like digital modelling, 3D animation, GIS cartographic mapping in order to show that space, is in fact, political and there are a plethora of factors existing within context that must be included in the creation of architecture.





Who we are.





Victoria McKenzie (she/her)
Founder / Architectural Research Lead

M.A., Goldsmiths’ University, UK


Victoria McKenzie is an independent researcher, academic lecturer, and architectural thinker. Her work explores the intersections of art, ecology, politics, and the built environment through a decolonial lens.

She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, specializing in Literature and Critical Theory, Urban Studies, and Human Geography. She earned her M.A. with high distinction at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths’ University of London, and is currently a PhD candidate at UCL with a focus on ecologies, climate change, and philosophies of being.

Victoria is the founder and director of Radical Research & Re-storying Agency (RRA), where she leads projects that reimagine architectural practice through cultural memory, climate justice, and pre-colonial knowledge systems. She has worked with institutions such as Adjaye Associates, Forensic Architecture, Triennale di Milano, Sandberg Instituut, Piet Zwart Institute, MU Hybrid Art House, and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

www.victoriamckenzie.co


Fiona Cuypers-Stanienda (she/her)
Partner / Visual and Communication Lead

AA Dipl. M.Arch. ARB/RIBA Part II,
Architectural Association, UK

Fiona Cuypers-Stanienda is an architectural designer and analog photographer whose work explores the emotional and political relationships between people and space. Trained at the Architectural Association in London, ETH Zurich, and the University of the Arts Berlin, her practice uses photography as a method of research—grounded in slow observation, deep listening, and human connection.

At RRA, Fiona leads visual strategy and communication, contributing her lens as both a designer and storyteller. Her work uncovers overlooked spatial narratives—revealing how architecture, identity, and memory intersect in lived experience. She brings particular focus to methods of spatial storytelling that foreground intimacy, presence, and long-term dialogue.

Her project My Favourite Space spans cities and continents, exploring how public and private spaces reflect broader systems of belonging, precarity, and home. Fiona’s work has been featured in Architect’s Journal, Wallpaper, and REAL, and exhibited at the AA Bookshop in London and the British School at Rome.


www.fionacuypersstanienda.com




Collaborators
Noah Gotlib, AA Dipl. M.Arch. ARB/RIBA Part II, Toronto, https://www.noahgotlib.com/


SOCA, Studio of Contemporary Architecture, Toronto. https://socadesign.ca

BAIDA, Black Architects and Interior Designers Association, Toronto. https://www.baida.ca

Karim Fouad, AA Dipl. M.Arch ARB/RIBA Part II, Cairo.  IG: @mogasam.obj

Alvin Luong, BA (Hons) with High Distinction, Toronto.  www.alvinluong.com

Russell Royer, AA Dipl. (Hons) M.Arch ARB/RIBA Part II, London. IG: @thechoreum

Elias Tamer, AA Dipl. ARB/RIBA Part II, Beirut. www.collectiveforarchitecture-lb.com
Radical Research & Re-Storying Agency

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