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ItemThe Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne, Through the Lens of Tertiary Education and Research(The Percy Grainger Society, 2022)The University of Melbourne is home to an autobiographic museum dedicated to the life and works of Percy Grainger. A museum and collections expert, a pedagogue at the Conservatorium for music, and a digital artist and architect discuss the museum's potential as collection and building for creative research and the opportunity it offers for student engagement.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableGhost of Grainger(Grainger Museum Melbourne, 2022)Sounding Grainger is a creative sonic and visual exploration of the Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne. Through a multidisciplinary collaboration that brings together a composer and an architect, this project reimagines the foundational bricks-and-mortar of the eponymous founder Percy Grainger’s legacy. Composer Sydney Miller, current Bachelor of Music (Interactive Composition) Honours student, has created a multi-channel soundscape which responds to the resonances of the physical architecture itself. A unique 3-d multi-screen visualisation of the architecture, created by Dr Rochus Hinkel, Associate Professor at the Melbourne School of Design, uses static, dynamic and animated point clouds. The triptych re-imagines the atmospheric and spatial readings of the museum, its interiors and its urban context. The sonic and visual installations recalibrate the Grainger Museum, creating a unique immersive and temporal experience of sonic and visual re-compositions of the architecture of the Grainger Museum.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableA Postcolonial Future(URO Publications, 2021)In his book Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe describes how the preconceived ideas and expectations of European colonisers rendered them blind to obvious Indigenous knowledge. He describes this Indigenous approach to cultivate country as wild. This submission discusses a design project that presents a vision towards a post-colonial utopian future; one in which First Nations People have the inherent right to build on their traditional lands and determine how they want to live. Moreover, they envision a future in which all living species have an equal share in a living future—where the complex nature of multispecies interconnections are respected and built upon as they were for all-time before colonisation. The project proposes that we live differently: that we build less, care more, produce locally, foster all Indigenous life forms, and learn from Aboriginal knowledge to ensure biodiversity and sustainability. Moreover, the project aims to offer alternatives to the current imperial paradigm. Wild space and pre-colonial knowledge systems can appear abstract to the broader community: we often remain as blind as our colonial ancestors. As such, this proposal will explore how narrative and storytelling via immersive representation technology can make wild projects accessible to the broader community beyond academia.
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ItemDesign in our industrialised world of capitalist flows: A Scandinavian perspective(URO, 2022-04)This book explores the far-reaching influence of two 20th-century design icons: the Bauhaus art school and the furniture company IKEA.
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ItemDo we change, or do we comply?(URO, 2022-04)This book explores the far-reaching influence of two 20th-century design icons: the Bauhaus art school and the furniture company IKEA.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableDoppelgänger(https://www.rochefoundation.com.au/exhibitions/the-doppelganger/, 2021)The Doppelgänger is an investigation into the potentials and promises as well as the limitations and specificities of digital technologies in design. David Roche Foundation’s Fermoy House and its collection of decorative arts has been the site of investigation. The house and parts of its collection have been documented through video recordings, 360º photography, and 3D scans – creating digital copies of the Foundation’s collection and spaces. The Doppelgänger exhibition presents digital copies of four selected items in the collection. By experimenting with alterations of original artefacts ‘uncanny’ new characters emerge. The series of new characters is called Fabulations. Each artwork makes specific reference to mystical fables, creating another layer of associations. Their new aesthetic forms offer novel perspectives, create alternative realities, and enable explorations of new forms of representation. The exhibition in Fermoy House presents original videos displayed on digital screens. Using their own handheld devices, like smartphones, visitors can also view and access digital copies of the artefacts in Augmented Reality. The artworks presented are developed by Rochus Urban Hinkel The Doppelgänger exhibition is one of two exhibitions presented during the duration of the Fellowship – it is accompanied by a series of online conversations.
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ItemA Future Interior is an Urban Interior(Crucible Press, 2019)A future interior will trespass the architectural envelope to take up its place in the city, on the streets, and in those urban spaces that remain open to a public. A future interior shelters the capacity to become an urban interior, emerging as a site of contest between commercial interests and the desire of a provisional community to gather, to voice its concerns, to imagine other possible futures, or simply hang out together. The future of practices dedicated to the interior must develop an attitude to the status of the urban interior, and the kinds of spaces it can carve out. The greatest risk to urban interiors is the compulsion to produce commercial economic outcomes, to curate atmospheric spaces that arouse experiences that can be monetized as part of the experience economy. Those urban interiors in which nothing in particular takes place, where no specific use is programmed, and yet which invite forms of provisional occupation are becoming increasingly rare in light of the ongoing diminution of public spaces and the lack of places available as a commons that might be indiscriminately shared by all. It is becoming increasingly challenging to even imagine how to occupy what I call an urban interior without attaching some commercial program or financial gain to it. It follows that the interior architect who is socially and politically engaged must pause to ask: How can the urban interior be saved from capitalist recuperation? This is an ongoing challenge for the discipline of interior design and architecture.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Ghost of Grainger: Engaging with heritage through digital storytelling(The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), 2021-11-15)The Grainger Museum is one of the University of Melbourne’s museums. It is a purpose-built autobiographical building for the collection of Ellan and Percy Grainger, with more than 100,000 items, including musical scores, manuscripts, and a collection of musical instruments. The museum was designed by the University of Melbourne architect, John Gawler in close exchange with the Graingers, and opened in 1938. The museum’s significance as a collection but also of its architecture is expressed through its inclusion in the Register of the National Estate and the Victorian Heritage Register, and its classification by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). As part of a university-wide digitization strategy, we created digital 3D models of the building, its surroundings, and interiors, through the use of Lidar laser scanning. While this generates a digital dataset that documents and preserves the heritage-listed building, we aim to go beyond the mere representation of the physical. Our creative research expands the notion of the building and its collection as a mere collection of physical artefacts. Through digital animation and storytelling, we express and make accessible the stories and histories of the collection and building. We represent atmospheric experiences, animated views, newly composed soundscapes, and interactive visualizations – exploring new modes of documentation and representation. Are we able to add layers to the physical and build through artistic explorations, using visual animations and soundscapes? How can we expand the understanding of the building and its collection for visitors and viewers? These are some of the questions we will discuss in this paper. This research demonstrates how a visitor- and viewer-centred approach to the museum and the collection allows for other experiences and relationships with the collection and the spaces of the Grainger Museum.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Ghost of Grainger: From Preservation to Storytelling( 2021-11-15)The Grainger Museum is one of the University of Melbourne’s museums. It is a purpose-built autobiographical building for the collection of Ellan and Percy Grainger, with more than 100,000 items, including musical scores, manuscripts, and a collection of musical instruments. The museum was designed by the University of Melbourne architect, John Gawler in close exchange with the Graingers, and opened in 1938. The museum’s significance as a collection but also of its architecture is expressed through its inclusion in the Register of the National Estate and the Victorian Heritage Register, and its classification by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). As part of a university-wide digitization strategy, we created digital 3D models of the building, its surroundings, and interiors, through the use of Lidar laser scanning. While this generates a digital dataset that documents and preserves the heritage-listed building, we aim to go beyond the mere representation of the physical. Our creative research expands the notion of the building and its collection as a mere collection of physical artefacts. Through digital animation and storytelling, we express and make accessible the stories and histories of the collection and building. We represent atmospheric experiences, animated views, newly composed soundscapes, and interactive visualizations – exploring new modes of documentation and representation. Are we able to add layers to the physical and build through artistic explorations, using visual animations and soundscapes? How can we expand the understanding of the building and its collection for visitors and viewers? These are some of the questions we will discuss in this paper. This research demonstrates how a visitor- and viewer-centred approach to the museum and the collection allows for other experiences and relationships with the collection and the spaces of the Grainger Museum.
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ItemOn a Field: Undoing Polarities between Indigenous and Non-indigenous Design Knowledges(SAHANZ, 2022)This paper discusses how architectural practices can engage with and be inspired by a culture that is more than 60.000 years old. How can architects learn from situated and embodied Indigenous knowledge systems in the Australian context? How can an ethical engagement with indigenous histories and practices inspire the development of future architectural practices? This paper proposes that a better understanding of indigenous relationships to land and our environment can inspire us as a society and as architects to imagine new ways of thinking and practising. Considering our numerous contemporary crises, such as climate change, species extinction, food insecurity, we might need to begin to challenge and question western European norms and frameworks. The persistence of colonial thinking, operating within a capitalist system, has been the root cause of most of our contemporary crises. To attempt to undo the polarities that persist between indigenous and non-indigenous knowledge and thinking, we might learn new ways of storytelling as a means of envisioning an alternative future. This paper understands the theme of the ‘ultra’ as that position that keeps us apart and stops us from sharing stories that might lead to alternative ways of speculating on shared spatial futures. To situate this discussion, we present a collaborative and pedagogical design experiment undertaken on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung. On this Country, tentative attempts to learn with the environment and its associated stories were ventured on a small field and storytelling was used to shift our understanding of country and architecture.