Fatou Kiné Dieye: ‘If you’re not designing systems, you’re just decorating problems’

Ahead of her keynote address at the 2025 Australian Architecture Conference, Rwandan-based consultant Fatou Kiné Dieye states that the profession’s survival hinges on a paradigm shift. Architects must become fluent in policy, logistics and subterranean engineering – not to disrupt, but to orchestrate.