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ItemNo Preview AvailableEquity at and beyond the boundary of Australian universities(La Trobe University, 2019)This report investigates the social demography, learning outcomes and educational experiences of students enrolled in two distinct modes of higher education delivery in Australia — university programs delivered through third party arrangements, and higher education courses delivered by non-university higher education institutions (NUHEIs). In short, the research examines equity at and beyond the boundary of Australian universities. University courses delivered through third party arrangements—particularly those that involve subcontracting and franchising of program delivery—are not provided directly by public universities, and can therefore be considered as residing at the boundary of the public university. Programs delivered by NUHEIs are positioned definitively beyond the boundary of the Australian public university. Our research examines the equity group participation, retention and success rates—as well as the educational experiences—of students within these two domains of delivery. While maintaining a particular focus on students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, we analyse and present data on five of the six nationally recognised equity groups within higher education, including Indigenous students, students with a disability, and students from low SES, regional and non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB).
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ItemHousing Prototypes, Timber Tectonic Culture and the Digital Age(SpringerLink, 2019)Arguably the balloon frame exemplifies the commencement of the embedment of structural performance within timber construction standardisation and a system innovation responding to socio-technical issues in domestic construction. Three recent residential architecture prototypes which embrace digital design to fabrication are discussed as continuing this tradition. Held as exemplars of the capacity potential of digital design to file-to-factory these projects offer an opportunity to reflect on questions related to material culture, the social networks of construction and the boundaries between architecture, structure, materials, and construction. This chapter raises a series of discussion points centred around the role of timber-based products, in a digitally enabled domestic construction industry.
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ItemTracking the Trends in City Networking: A Passing Phase or Genuine International Reform?(University of Pennsylvania, 2019)
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ItemRationality and Creativity Interplay in Research by Design as Seen from the Inside(Universitas Indonesia, Directorate of Research and Public Service, 2019)While research by design is critical in the development of architecture and design knowledge, there is still a need to deeply understand the design knowledge about the interplay between rationality and creativity in research-by-design projects. This paper attempts to address this issue by illustrating, rather than conceptualising, the inside process of a research by design project. The inside process will be discussed from three different points of view: (1) research or design interest tendency, (2) the performance of reflective attitude, and (3) a combination of views (1) and (2). The study resulted in an illustration of the interplay that suggests a dynamic forward-backwards act of thinking and making of a research-by-design project.
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ItemThe remembered village between Europe and Asia-Minor: Nea Magnisia at Bonegilla(Routledge, 2019-06-25)The resilience of multiple troubled histories as constituent features of Australia’s immigrant heritage draws attention to processes outside recognised nation-building narratives, not necessarily captured at commemorative sites. Immigrant and refugee lives gain dignity and value through empathetic recognition of the ontological connections that shaped their natal subjectivity prior to displacement, but representing them proves challenging. A village modelled from memory by a former European immigrant and exhibited at Victoria’s Bonegilla heritage site inserts new knowledge of an early twentieth-century conflict into Australian border space. This chapter examines the commemorative practices around the refugee village of Nea Magnisia exhibited at the ‘Bonegilla Migrant Experience’, the national heritage-listed former border camp, as illuminating how displacement is recollected and historicised. It explores the meaning and value of nostalgic reconstructions and their resonance for the reception of contemporary refugees. The chapter crosses multiple historical geographies: Greece, Turkey (Asia-Minor) and Australia following a single immigrant’s story.
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ItemIntroduction: Architecture on the Borderline(Routledge, 2019-07-12)This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the military exclusion zone defensively created by North American governments—against the threat of Japanese invasion during the war—as a border space. It explains the controlled opacity of government-supported offshore detention at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru. The book illustrates expansionist ambitions, whether by border crossing, exclusion or media proliferation, highlighting different manifestations of territorial sovereignty. It focuses on a number of counter-monuments erected, removed, transported and recreated in a dynamic political practice where histories of the Berlin Wall are mobilised and multiplied for protesting EU border policies. The book discusses the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea is an opaque, resilient barrier of Cold War hostilities in Asia. It explores the evolving cultural politics surrounding the redevelopment of this site and its neighbourhood as responding to a utopian postcolonial urban vision advanced by the state.
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ItemThe remembered village between Europe and Asia-Minor: Nea Magnisia at Bonegilla(Routledge, 2019-06-25)The resilience of multiple troubled histories as constituent features of Australia’s immigrant heritage draws attention to processes outside recognised nation-building narratives, not necessarily captured at commemorative sites. Immigrant and refugee lives gain dignity and value through empathetic recognition of the ontological connections that shaped their natal subjectivity prior to displacement, but representing them proves challenging. A village modelled from memory by a former European immigrant and exhibited at Victoria’s Bonegilla heritage site inserts new knowledge of an early twentieth-century conflict into Australian border space. This chapter examines the commemorative practices around the refugee village of Nea Magnisia exhibited at the ‘Bonegilla Migrant Experience’, the national heritage-listed former border camp, as illuminating how displacement is recollected and historicised. It explores the meaning and value of nostalgic reconstructions and their resonance for the reception of contemporary refugees. The chapter crosses multiple historical geographies: Greece, Turkey (Asia-Minor) and Australia following a single immigrant’s story.
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ItemDivided Histories of the Pacific War: Revisiting Changi's (post) colonial heritage(Routledge, 2019-10-07)This chapter explores how, during the Pacific War, when Singapore was occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army, the colonial model of the racially divided city was inverted and reproduced through a new carceral geography of internment and prisoner-of-war camps. In these camp environments, which were distributed throughout the island, former colonisers became captives. Racial segregation and imprisonment were instrumentalised in a new territorial conflict between European and Asian imperialists. These camps and their histories have not been included in national representations of wartime heritage. Although their material traces are embedded in place names and associations, very little is known of these segregated environments. The chapter examines the postcolonial significance of these affective materialities for understanding the contested heritage of imperialism through the politics of the divided city.
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ItemIntersecting sovereignties: Border camps and border villages in wartime North America(Routledge, 2019)The forced removal of civilians of Japanese ancestry from homes along the sensitive West Coast of North America, and their incarceration in detention centres and remote concentration camps, remains a particularly troubling episode within Second World War histories. State sovereignty, imposed in this manner, created an internal border condition where a group of minority citizens was disenfranchised. The denial of civil liberties was further spatialised in the camp facilities erected for their accommodation; barrack cities in the USA and repurposed or rebuilt work camps in Canada. This chapter compares the facilities at Manzanar, California, with those at New Denver, British Columbia, examining how social oppression was conveyed through two very different types of camp architecture, and how incarcerated populations responded to them. The chapter’s additional focus on an orphanage and a sanatorium uncovers internal generational vulnerabilities.
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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.