Augusta Lutynski

fatmas (2025)
Costume Design, Hair and Makeup

Playwright: Faiza Maskhouni
Director: Faiza Maskhouni
Set Designer: Marie-Ève ​​Fortier
Costumes, Hair and Makeup Designer: Augusta Lutynski
Lighting and Video Designer: Marguerite Hudon
Photos: Maxime Côté

Topdog/Underdog (2025)
Set, Prop and Costume Design

Playwright: Suzan-Lori Parks
Director: Azal Dosanjh
Set and Props Designer: Augusta Lutynski
Costumes, Hair and Makeup Designer: Augusta Lutynski
Lighting Designer: Aurora Torok
Photos: Maxime Boisvert

1/4" home (2024)


The ¼” windows rotting from the rain, ¼” white doors always locked, ¼” steps worn down, ¼” wood siding faded from the west sun, ¼” shingles for perching on, ¼” chimney that doesn't work, ¼” grass around the perimeter of the home, ¼” blue sky reflected in the windows.

Unboxing the Black Box - Theatre Engaging Communities Grant (2024)

The goal of this project is to create an iterative tool for building maquettes that moves away from the single-use foam core model. The maquette offers a hands on way to stage ideas and problem-solve in scaled-down space: a black box crafted to the shape of a theater that typically includes the floor, walls, the proscenium arch, and other details of the room. Currently, the main material used to build maquettes is foamcore, a plastic-based material that cannot be recycled and is rarely reused due to construction adhesives and size specificity. These material qualities render the maquette inflexible, as each box is secured to one project or space. Part of this project is exploring how tools like maquettes may be more effective if they reflect and support the temporal reality of this work. ‘Unboxing’ relates to a larger process of revisiting the same tool and understanding it in different contexts. By not confining the box to one theatrical world, there starts a process of developing a modular framework to build, take apart, understand and re-work across different scenography projects.

https://www.instructables.com/Unboxing-the-Black-Box-a-Modular-Scenography-Maque/

a dress for La Force (2024)

The Government Inspector (2024)
Set and Prop Design

Playwright: David Harrower
Director: Krista Jackson
Set and Props Designer: Augusta Lutynski
Costumes, Hair and Makeup Designer: Jess J. Jandera
Lighting Designer: Alex Sykes
Photos: Maxime Côté

Attempts On Her Life (2024)
Set and Prop Design

Playwright: Martin Crimp
Director: Rose Plotek
Set and Props Designer: Augusta Lutynski
Costume Designer: Nikki Mabias
Lighting Designer: Andie McMillan
Photos: Vincent Morreale

Flower Press (2023)

The Flower Press is a chair that requires body weight to properly preserve the flowers placed inside, demanding a level of stillness. The chair's design includes some of the flowers my babcia collected in Siberia and her writings from the steppe.

Welcome to Our Home (2021)

Observing the liminal state of public/ private that is brought about by light

Considering the in-betweens of public and private space – a window at night balances this apparent duality. While the happenings within a home are hidden during the day, a window at night might share the personal setting of a home to those passing by. This installation presents a scene in the private sphere and invites the viewer to gaze and experience the intimacy of another’s dwelling. While looking, one might notice rituals, belongings, personal exchanges, and feel the presence of others in a distanced space. In these observational moments spaces are shared and boundaries blurred by means of ‘light’.
Duration: 3 hrs

Mishap Journal (2021)

The journal highlights creative works by artists and designers, and prompts collective thought and dialogue surrounding a monthly theme.
In collaboration with Manon Fraser.

https://www.are.na/mishap-journal/mishap-vkmdfu_svsw

Neighbourhood Stroll (2020)

Daily observations and experiences from my neighbourhood walk

For ten days I walked the same route in my neighbourhood, noting my experiences along the way. By walking the same path every day, I came to know the spaces that I moved through; they were familiar and sometimes predictable. I came to know the areas that were high in traffic where people might gather, I also came to know the areas that were quiet and perhaps off people’s radar. The walk presented the rhythms and schedules of my neighbours - I would often have experiences at the same time and place throughout the week. People in my neighbourhood had their own paths and spaces that they would consistently situate themselves in. Over the ten days I watched how people related to space based on their activities, routines, location, and needs.

A Place For Presence (2020)

This project explores the temporality of place.

Spatial Prompts (2020)

Food Design (2020)

Mending Public Space - Ian Gillespie President’s Discretionary Fund (2019)

In this project, both physical and social aspects of ‘mending’ were considered within public space through a series of community workshops and public interventions. These included hanging laundry in the park, mending fences by weaving in broken sections, 'Messages for Our Neighbours' a sign making workshop, and mowing pedestrian pathways alongside bike routes. These workshops and interventions considered the unique social and physical needs in a public sphere, addressing how public space might be mended to better suit a community’s needs. I was curious to explore how people take stewardship of space, and how local needs and desires shape a collective sense of place.

Unworthy Objects - ECUAD Ecological Design Award (2018)

"What makes an object valuable? What makes one thing worthy of repair while others are discarded? Can a disposable object evolve into something more worthy? "These are questions that student Augusta Lutynski explores in her project Unworthy Objects. Augusta conducted research that evolved into a series of projects focusing on engaging and educating people in the practice of mending objects deemed “unworthy”. Unworthy Objects is comprised of object-mending tutorials in the form of videos, step-by-step "Instructables" and kits, to challenge the unworthiness of disposable objects.

https:www.instructables.com/How-to-Mend-a-Pencil
https://www.ecuad.ca/news/2018/unworthy-objects

a dress for Cora (2018)

Shoemaking (2017)

Shoemaking (2015)