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ItemPlace and Parametricism(Real/Material/Ethereal: The 2nd Annual Design Research Conference, 2019)This project contributes to a broad range of design fields, especially architecture. The overarching project, also called Place and Parametricism, looks at qualitative and quantitative ways to represent and manage places. Within this theme, the focus of this exhibition is on the analysis of digitally held information and on design-research methods that can advance such research. The project: 1) develops an account of place that is useful in concrete design situations; 2) conducts a systematic examination of computational approaches to place; 3) creates and tests computational design tools that can advance place-oriented design; and 4) demonstrates the effectiveness of this toolkit. The exhibition specifically focuses on the demonstration of the methods and tools. In response to these aims, the project has conducted a range of design experiments. The investigators used these outputs for theory construction in collaborative multidisciplinary settings. The project has produced multiple outputs including contributions to theoretical understanding and practical design approaches. It produced novel teaching and learning strategies, demonstrated how computing can be used to unify multidisciplinary knowledge on place and disseminated the toolkit within relevant communities of practice. This recorded work has been selected for the exhibition within the Real/Material/Ethereal: The 2nd Annual Design Research Conference in 2019, the leading disciplinary research forum in Australia. The work is supported by the ARD DP170104010 grant and co-created with leaders in their fields. The publications are forthcoming, and the team are in an active discussion with the curators at the National Gallery of Victoria where this work will form a part of a major exhibition. The themes presented in the exhibition have been discussed in peer-reviewed publication, presented at conferences, and won awards for the excellence in research.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Endless Interior: (& The Biography of the Emigre)(Melbourne School of Design, 2023)The exhibition comprises two parts: ‘The Biography of the Émigré (Object)’ is an ongoing curatorial collaboration between researcher Jeromie Maver and Professor Alan Pert. Assembling a collection of never-before-seen furniture pieces and objects gifted from private collections across Melbourne, these “émigré objects” tell the story of forced migration, antipodean exile, and new beginnings. Through engagement and interaction with these pieces, awareness of their value and merit – paired with biographical insight into their makers and designers - dialogue forms around notions of attribution and recognition. Archival assemblages in themselves, these biographies of object and maker reiterates interdisciplinarity that emerged between architects, artists, designers, cabinetmakers, and clients. Concurrently, their individual approaches legitimise issues of research into making, provenance, exhibition history, preservation, conservation, and reception. Many crucial pieces of émigré interiors are still to be found, elevated or even rescued from auction houses, mid-century stores and online marketplaces – an exercise in itself as endless as the interior Kiesler referred to. ‘From Austria to the Antipodes’ is an exhibition intesifying significant material culture from this crucible of modernity seen in ‘The Biography of the Émigré (Object)’ informing exploratory artefacts produced by Melbourne School of Design students in Critical and Curatorial Practices in Design. This subject creates a curatorial laboratory testing new interpretations of émigré practice. Through these dual forces, this exhibition aspires - as a biographical exploration into émigré and object – to introduce our audience to the origins of ideas, the hidden histories of objects and the role and relationships of their makers and designer. We hope to stimulate new forms of research, exploration and dialogue by giving the object an opportunity to speak for itself and the audience a place in the narrative.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableNew Horizons: Through Darkness Comes Light(Melbourne School of Design, 2023)Continuing an ongoing survey into the practice and output of European-bord emigre creative practitioners in Victoria in the interwar and post-war period, this exhibition serves to determine further collaborative relationships and shed light on the often traumatic and disturbing journey required to arrive in Australia. The aim of the research is to further elucidate the impact that this had on creative output, whilst also serving to elevate and platform the continued rigour, productivity, interdisciplinarity and collaboration amongst emigres - even under great duress due to pre-existing notions of xenophobia, prejudice and lack of profile in their new environments. Highlighting the work of Perth-based, European-educated and Bulgarian-born emigres Iwan Iwanoff and George Kosturkov, with a chorus of over 65 Victorian-based, European-educated architects, designers, performers, artists, educators and photographers, the exhibition examines in greater details the intricacies of their practices and the impact they have had on the Australian design landscape. The exhibition and its associated texts and continued development into further exhibitions later in 2023 and 2024 serve to continue unpacking and exploring these histories - to provide more publicly visible representation, appreciation and information to a wider audience.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableDecolonising Architecture Education(https://designweek.melbourne/program/decolonising-architectural-education/, 2022)How can educators and designers begin to decolonise architectural education, particular the design studio environment, to create a new narrative of civic and community good? Architectural education is deeply implicated with processes of colonisation and the appropriation of Indigenous knowledge. How might architectural education and design studios be decolonised? Despite calls for inclusiveness, by non-Indigenous educators there is at the heart of many architecture and design histories, a focus on settler progress. Settler progress is often lurking in the plethora of narratives, histories and precedents in our design schools. This panel will include architects, landscape architects, urban theorists, designers and artists actively working to decolonise design education.
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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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ItemHomefullness Roundtable(https://fargfabriken.se/sv/program/kalendarium/item/836, 2012)We held an informal roundtable event where participants take the opportunity to investigate and compare perceptions of housing and homelessness in the urban contexts of Australia and Sweden. As such we extend the Homefullness project, broadening the discussion into an international context. Through this we will develop a dialogue between housing policy, creative interventions, participatory design and social activism in order to generate new ways of engaging with our goal of full housing or what we call ‘homefullness’ (See http://homefullness.net).
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ItemNo Preview AvailableKalhöfer & Korschildgen: Wie wohnen - heute?(Architekturgallerie am Weißenhof, Stuttgart, 2002)Curator of an exhibition of experimental adaptations of Mies an der Rohe's apartments by the architects Kalhöfer Korschildgen in the second oldest German Architecture Gallery
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ItemNo Preview AvailableA2 Architectural Week Bamberg(BDA Bayern, http://www.zweite-architekturwoche.de/city/bamberg/programm/programm-city=4.php.html, 2004)A public event highlighting, presenting, discussing and reflecting on the role architecture plays in our urban society.
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ItemRelational Design for Public Life(Urbaninterior.net, 2009)Public space does not pre-exist, it only emerges once it becomes activated through inhabitation and occupation (Arendt, H. 1958; Boomkens, R. 2009 ). Within the city the individual becomes part of the collective, even if only provisionally, and the collective shares public space within a framework developed for the possibility of co-existence.
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ItemUrban Interior Berlin Colloquium, Kubus @ Volksbühne Berlin(Urban Interior, 2009)A research colloquium on the questions of Urban Interior, and it's relationship and role in politics, society and spatial practice with numerous presentations and external high-profile reviewers from University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin, TU Berlin, amongst others.