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ItemFour Melbourne Architects (1979): The Creation of Contemporary Perceptions for Australian Architecture(SAHANZ, 2022)In 1979, Peter Corrigan conceived the idea for the ‘Four Melbourne Architects’ exhibition to be held at South Yarra’s Powell Street Gallery. Corrigan led the charge to draw a line between a new generation of architectural practitioners with a fresh design agenda and the conservative practices represented by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA). This exhibition, along with the establishment of the Half Time Club and the launch of Transition Magazine, provided platforms for a lively and vigorous profession. The ‘Four Melbourne Architects’—Greg Burgess, Peter Crone, Norman Day and Edmond and Corrigan—were diverse in their approach to architectural design yet shared common concerns of the post-Whitlam generation. The research for this paper examines the documentation between the four architects as they prepared their exhibition, recording the projects exhibited, along with critical reviews of the exhibition. Interviews have been undertaken with the surviving architects involved and people who attended the exhibition. Four Melbourne Architects was the first of many exhibitions during that period, which became one of many vehicles for public engagement with early postmodernism and those creating it, where collaboration, inclusion, and connectivity informed designers. That process activated a search for a contemporary Australian identity leading to the development of the ‘Melbourne School’.
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ItemAustralian architectural education in the pluriverse(Design Research Society, 2022)
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ItemWine and User Experience Design(ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, 2020)Wine is an experience. It engages all of our senses. Before we even taste wine we hold the bottle, admire the label, listen to it being poured in the glass, assess the colour and texture of the wine, swirl it around the glass, smell it and finally taste it. However, human pleasure in the experience can be designed to go far beyond the value of simply drinking the wine. What about the journey the wine has taken to reach you? Who made it, and why? Who else is drinking it now? Why does it taste the way it does? The social, cultural and scientific aspects of wine making, marketing and drinking offer opportunities for designers and HCI researchers to enhance the user experience of wine. This workshop offers academics and practitioners interested in designing wine futures, to chance to envision new experiences, products and services. Through participative design activities we will explore ways for design and technology to push our knowledge and craft into this unexplored applied research area.
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ItemThe Home as a Work-life Hub: A Policy (and Design) Blackspot(CIB, 2021)There is a complex relationship between home and work for people with a disability that is not reflected in the many policies and legislative frameworks that apply to housing in Australia. These include Commonwealth housing policy (largely financial in nature), the Building Code of Australia, and Home Modification Schemes run through the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Much current policy settings assume housing as a passive economic generator – a financial asset that appreciates and gains value over time. However, for many people with disability, the home is a place of active economic activity, both by the person with disability (working from home) and for them, as external workers come into the home to provide services that support their activities of daily life. This complicates the spaces within dwellings, particularly in terms of public and private space, which effects personal and professional places. The policy and legislative disconnect is reflected in housing design which manifests in a structural inequality – homes are not accessible, and a social inequality – homes do not support work or socializing. This paper reviews the policy and legislation used to support appropriate design recognising the role of the home as a location that blends elements of privacy, work, and socialising, while also providing the physical support so people can work and socialize in the community as full citizens. The aim of the ongoing research is to show how change and innovation to the legislative frameworks and the role that AECM consultants can play in improving the wellbeing of people who live with disability.
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ItemDesigning for neurodiversity: Reimagining the home for a covid normal life( 2021-01-01)As cities went into lockdown in response to COVID-19, for many, the role of the home in everyday life expanded. Activities that would normally occur at another venue, including work, study, recreation, and health appointments, were reconfigured to be done in the home. Among the legacies from this experience is a clearer understanding of the spatial and phenomenological quality of the spaces in which we live. Housing design already assigns private and public areas within dwellings, such as bedrooms and living rooms, but these are often rigidly defined and largely inflexible for alternative uses. Research on designing housing suitable for people with cognitive disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), (such as a 'sensory design' approach, where it is necessary to move beyond public vs private, and recognise other dicotisms, light/ dark, warm/cool, loud/quiet, hard/soft, work/rest, and so on, and the transition between modes), may provide lessons for more general COVID-normal housing design. This study analyses three case studies of residential accommodation for people with ASD as opportunities for developing more responsive housing that can adapt to the demand for a greater range of activities to be fulfilled in the home.
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ItemDay in The Age: A Critical Observation of Architecture(Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), 2021-07-01)Architect Norman Day has been integral to shaping Melbourne’s built work since the early 1970s through built work, exhibitions, writing, and teaching. The representation of architecture through the written word of Norman Day revisits the role of the ‘Architectural Critic' through a contemporary lens to assess the implication it made on the Australian built environment. Having worked in Robin Boyd's office, Day was also the architectural commentator for The Age—Melbourne’s daily newspaper—from 1976-2011, where he contributed over 500 articles. During this time, he was Australia’s pre-eminent architectural critic also working with ABCTV and the Sydney Morning Herald. He was awarded the Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media in 2004. This research was conducted as archival work of the written word in a variety of publications, mainly newspaper but also in books and magazine articles. The analysis of these articles results in a grouped based content analysis referencing projects, themes, and chronology. Days main projects during this time are positioned alongside his public criticism. Several interviews were also undertaken with Norman Day. Not dissimilar to Robin Boyd, it will be argued that Day’s architectural journalism as simultaneously making the activity of the architect accessible to the public, while communicating to architects globally the philosophies and methodologies at that moment in time. However, Day’s critiques, mode of criticisms and engagement with media were quite different from Boyd's.