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Radical Research & Re-storying Agency (RRA) is a collaborative practice rooted in architecture, photography, and storytelling. We work across disciplines to explore how space is inhabited, remembered, and reimagined, with a focus on care, slowness, and relational thinking.
Our projects move between fieldwork, dialogue, and making. We engage with communities, landscapes, and overlooked details to reveal the layers that shape our environments: emotional, historical, political. At the heart of our approach is a belief that stories — and who gets to tell them — matter.
RRA was born from a desire to work in a decolonial manner: to resist speed, listen closely and create frameworks that honour lived experiences. Whether through image, word, or built form, we ask how design can hold space for complexity, memory, and change.
M.A., Goldsmiths’ University
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.
AA Dipl. M.Arch. ARB/RIBA Part II, Architectural Association
Fiona Cuypers-Stanienda is an architectural designer and analogue photographer whose work explores the emotional, political, and social relationships between people and space. Her practice is grounded in slow observation, long-term dialogue, and a deep commitment to human connection.
Trained at the Architectural Association in London, with additional studies at ETH Zurich and the University of the Arts Berlin, Fiona uses photography as a research method—an architectural tool to uncover overlooked spatial narratives. Her images are shaped by presence, trust, and time, revealing how memory, identity, and belonging are embedded in the built environment.
At RRA, Fiona leads visual strategy and storytelling, drawing from both architectural thinking and her analogue photography practice. She brings particular focus to methods of spatial representation that foreground intimacy, authorship, and the quiet complexity of everyday life.
Her work has been published in Architect’s Journal, Wallpaper, and REAL, and exhibited at the AA Bookshop in London and the British School at Rome.
With gratitude to those who have contributed their time, insight, and care:
BAIDA, Elias Tamer, Felix Peng Fei Yang, Karim Fouad, Martin Escalante, Noah Gotlib, Russell Royer, SOCA