Mediated City Annual Review 2012

Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | COVER1 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | COVER2 outcomes. through creative projects, events and research City flagship develops the work ofthe DRI established by the DRIin2008.The Mediated from the Geoplaced Knowledge research stream, commenced in2012.Mediated City originated Nexus, and Mediated City, each ofwhich Future Fabric ofCities,Urban Technology There are three flagships withinthe program: world. our navigate and plan communities, to the ways we live and work, create culture and speculative and practical initiatives, applicable Future City’ as its core research area. Projects are The DRI Flagship Program takes the theme of ‘The form teams around significant projects. games, communication designand new media business, industrial design,art,creative writing, fashion, aeronautical and chemical engineering, design thinking. Researchers from architecture, partners together to access abroad spectrum of their industry, government and community DRI brings over 100university researchers and on atopic. creativity and innovative ideas that are focused research ensures arange ofknowledge, expertise, A transdisciplinary approach to project based social, environmental and industrial challenges. expertise and discipline to solve their complex and industry require more than one area of of the complex issues facing our communities research collaboration. We understand that many DRI is auniquelocation for transdisciplinary Urbanisation. Future the and the problems and challenges of research’s role to explore the Citiesofthe established in2008.Itaims to build design The DesignResearch Institute (DRI)was photograph by Tania Ivanka. Back Cover: Building 100Level 10Pavilions, Road, Suzhou, China, May 11–13, 2012. Front Cover: Lumens Festival, audiences view works inPing Jiang www.designresearch.rmit.edu.au/programs To read more visit:

Research Institute. receiving financial support from the Design and inclusion inthis report is not indicative of of Mediated City’s community ofresearchers journal articles. This report details the research chapters, conference papers, presentations, and and scholarly outputs including books, book conferences, workshops, exhibitions, prototypes, activities for Mediated City including symposia, This report documents the 2012research Within this report RMIT University DesignResearch Institute. copyright owner. Enquiries should bemade to without the priorwritten permission ofthe electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or transmitted, inany form or by any means may bereproduced, stored inaretrieval system All rights reserved. No part ofthis publication pages is invested inthe individual authors. © Copyright inthe individual sections/project Fashion and Textiles. Geospatial Sciences, School ofArt,School of Communication, School ofMathematical and Architecture and Design,School ofMedia and RMIT DesignResearch Institute, School of Mediated City is supported by Tania Ivanka Annual Report Editor Laetitia Shand Mediated City Research Coordinator Yoko Akama and Jeremy Yuille Acting Research Leaders Associate Professor Laurene Vaughan Mediated City Research Leader Bottom: Design:Business – Booster workshop. Top: DesignFutures Lab workshop. Mediated City Flagship ƌɄ ƌɄ ƌɄ ƌɄ Common themes under Mediated City are: interaction designand creative writing. to cross boundary domains, such as art,business, geospatial science, new knowledge. Here, designcatalyses changes inpeople’s practices explore questions that traverse through various disciplines to create intangible things, tangible. The research projects under Mediated City participation ofpeople to co-create artefacts and experiences to make media and other things. Designis the mediator that enables research networks, archives, performances, visualisations, digital engagement between peopleand places. By artefacts, we mean Mediated City is about designing artefacts that mediate the Making histories accessible and meaningful intoday’s world. Altering our perception and relationship ofplace Creating spaces for dialogue and diversity political issues Activating public engagement insocial, environmental and

Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 1 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 2 theatre, amulti-purpose room and rooftop pavilions. collaborative projects for DRI,apublic gallery, longrooms, alecture 9. The Hub provides warehouse space for diverse and changing and DRImoved into its new home there, occupying Level 8and Level In 2012construction ofthe DesignHub (Building 100) was completed Moving to anew home inthe RMITDesignHub researches across urban, domestic and workplace environments. knowing, safety and health and the construction industry. She everyday life, sustainability, activism, tacit and sensory ways of works across themes including digital media, energy, consumption, theoretical and methodological scholarship withapplied practice. She social and cultural research expertise. Her research combines across design,engineering and arts disciplines to which she brings Her work is often developed through interdisciplinary collaborations digital visual and sensory ethnography methodologies. of Media and Communication at RMIT. Sarah is aglobal authority on She is working across the DesignResearch Institute and the School Sarah Pink joined RMITin2012from Loughborough University (UK). Professor ofDesign(Media Ethnography) Sarah Pink Hanging From aBar. Right: Exertion Games Lab, Wicked Mobilities. Above: GEElab, RMIT Design Hub Exhibition Opening2May2013, Our Future Transforming Convergence:

Afghan T-cycle quoting ‘Mediated City mailing list’. Please email: [email protected], To receive exhibition information join the Mediated City mailing list. ƌɄ ƌɄ ƌɄ ƌɄ ƌɄ ƌɄ ƌɄ Exhibition objectives include: have asignificant presence inthe exhibition and event program. world-class excellence indesignresearch at RMIT. Mediated City will first major public exhibition inthe RMITDesignHub, showcasing ‘Convergence: Transforming our Future’ exhibition. This willbethe The work ofthe DRIFlagships willbeondisplay in the upcoming being engaged withdesign ideas. Securing the public’s interest inthe Hub as a ‘place’ for meeting and RMIT DesignHub Having impact as the firstmajor ‘all building’ exhibition at the new Celebrating past achievements while looking to future projects Engaging and creating understanding through experience Cities, Mediated City, Urban Technology Nexus Contextualisation though Flagship narratives –Future Fabric of O!ering anew perspective on‘design research’ and future Clearly communicating the diversity ofDRIresearch –past, present

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Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 7 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 8 The methodology includes asurvey (including site visits) of development over seventy years (1840–1910). settler properties, the land on which they were established and their the Western District ofVictoria by examining the early history ofits This project aims to reveal the making ofthe cultural landscapes of Project description Australian Garden History Society Architecture and Design Research and Innovation Organisational collaborators Alice McDonald Anna O’Toole, Josh Bucknall, Nicholas van Lierop, Oana Chirvase, RMIT students: Timothy Heron, EmileClare, Michael Stowe, Research Assistants: Sue Wilks, Pam StLeger, Ashley Mackey, External Associates: Belinda Probert, Timothy Hubbard Research Associate: Christine Reid (RMITDesignArchives) Research Leader: Harriet Edquist A designhistory 1840–1910 Colonial Pastoralism inWestern Victoria: relationship to regional landscape formations such as volcanic cones, landscapes resulting inacatalogue; digital mapping oftheir approximately 220 homesteads, gardens and associated designed

www.gardenhistorysociety.org.au Bucknall, Alice MacDonald, Oana Chirvase and Nicholas van Lierop. By Tim Heron, EmileClare, Michael Stowe, Anna O’Toole, Josh M. Arch student research projects and 3Dmodel ofthe homestead Chatsworth Digital map ofhomesteads completed withaidofthe grant, Digital Digital modelling conference, A designhistory 1840–1910’, Paper presented at Edquist, H& Reid, C2012,‘Colonial pastoralism inwestern Victoria. Conference paper Australian Garden History Society Grant $6,000. Grant and exhibition. outcome of the four-year research project will be a publication, website essays; and digital visualisations ofhomesteads and sites. The rivers, lakes orlava flows; selected in-depthcase studies; discursive Ballarat, 10November. AGHS annual Terang. Wooriwyrite homestead,

2012 and launched at the RMITDesignHub inDecember 2012. range ofdisciplinary viewpoints. The bookwas released inSeptember historical and contemporary accounts ofdesigncollectives from a the idea ofthe collective a!ords. ‘The DesignCollective’ includes this volume examines the etymology, boundaries and practices that critique. Bringing together views of practitioners, historiansagency and aesthetics that are inthe process ofre-evaluation and and theorists, number ofissues central to designpractice, such as authorship, social change and politics.Inthis developing context there are a organising and generative community structure that links creativity, emerging field ofdiscourse about the potential ofthe collective as an everyday life. The essays presented inthis collection illustrate an flat structures and collectives as ameans for ‘making’ the things of the visual arts have reawakened the discourse around human capital, cooperatives) and creative collectives across the fields ofdesignand of community-focussed activities (e.g. gardens, knitting groups, food The rise ofsocial networking and open-source technology, the return Project description Cambridge Scholars Publishing RMIT DesignArchives Organisational collaborators Sian O’Gorman Moline, Robyn Healy, Lesley Whitworth, Jess Berry, Marius Foley, Dodd, , Helen Stuckey, Angelina Russo, Katherine Authors: Harriet Edquist, Laurene Vaughan, Julia Dwyer, Melanie Managing Editor: Laetitia Shand Editors: Harriet Edquist, Laurene Vaughan An Approach to Practice The DesignCollective. Practice1-4438-4027-0.htm www.c-s-p.org/flyers/The-Design-Collective--An-Approach-to-

www.avocaproject.org volunteer performers took part. de Zegher (Belgium) and Gerald McMaster (Canada). Over 200 invited, only 17 were Australian. The event was curated by Catherine recognised as animportant international artevent. Ofthe 110artists part ofAllOurRelations, Biennale ofSydney 2012.The Biennale is installation and daily performance onCockatoo Island, Sydney as Rehearsing catastrophe: the ArkinSydney was shown as an nationally and internationally to climate change adaptation. create images ofresilience at the local level inorder to contribute project works withartists, activists, scientists and townspeople to Change atWatford House, Avoca This research is part of with apotential audience ofmany thousands ofpeople. community, to amassive joiner’s shed onanisland inSydney Harbour house inasmall town incentral Victoria, withaneasily identifiable more public site. Research focused onhow to shift the ‘action’ from a of action through play for acatastrophe scenario for another, far a work created as aperformance/installation addressing strategies This research focused onthe expansion and re-contextualisation of Project description Media and Communication Organisational collaborators (sound design),Stephen Jones (videodocumentation) Hilary Jackman (mask co-construction), Chris Knowles Associated Researchers: Jeph Neale (fabricator), Research Leader: Lyndal Jones Change The Avoca Project: Art,Place and Climate Rehearsing catastrophe: the ArkinSydney The Avoca Project: Art, Place andClimate incentral Victoria. This 10year

Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 9 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 10 Pilbara writers’ group to create poetry maps In 2012the research team was invited by the physical, cultural and spiritual geographies. of places play out across the dimensions of understanding ofhow people’s perceptions and spatialising processes willassist our governing social interactions. The mapping of identity, local references and rules how places are inscribed withnarratives with narratives that willhelp usunderstand 4 Uinvolves community mapping ofplaces and reinvigorates our sense ofplace. Poetry allows the re-imagining ofplaces, identity (see Berryand Goodwin,2012inpress). This occupying the floating worlds ofsocial media geographical places while at the same time The Poetry 4 U project brings poetryinto Project description Technology Computer Science and Information Maths and Geospatial Science Research and Innovation Media and Communication Organisational collaborators July 2012) Uitdenbogerd, Catherine Gomes (January– James Harland, Harriet Edquist, Sandra Associated Researchers: William Cartwright, Research Leader: Marsha Berry Poetry 4U site which uses Google maps to pin submitted perceptions ofplace for the online Poetry 4U of sites inthe Pilbara region that explore poetry4U.org , 21st–23rd November. Conference paper presented at to Place: Making Sense of Place in the Pilbara’, Berry, Mand Gomes, C 2012‘Pinning Poetry the-pilbara/ ) through-poetry-pinning-poetry-to-place-in- blog/2012/07/25/connecting-communities- Poetry in the Pilbara’, Sotto; July 2012, through Poetry: Pinning Poetry to Place Berry, M2012‘Connecting Communities 10.1177/1461444812464470 online before printDecember 5,2012,doi: Streets’, Pinning Poems under/over/through the Berry, Mand Goodwin,O2013‘Poetry 4U: Key outputs creative practice communities. how social software enables participation in software for literary studies and exposes implications ofemergent forms ofsocial of this research is that itexplores some poems to poetrymaps. The significance (http://www.australianpoetry.org/ New MediaandSociety , Victoria University, City Campus, Place andDisplacement Australian , Published plurality ofMelbourne’s literary cultures. objective is to visualise and document the the urban inunexpected ways, the map’s By bringing together place, literature and upload literary artifacts inresponse to place. map and app where users can produce and mapping inthe development ofaninteractive project explores the possibilities ofmobile the periphery as well as the centre? This narratives and subjective experiences from the map with uno#cial histories, counter- public imagination. How dowe augment institutions and texts that mobilize the writing as well as the established writers, grounded, everyday practices ofreading and a City ofLiterature by taking into account Cultures’ is investigating how we can map the Map: Mapping Melbourne’s Literary ‘Putting the City ofthe Literature on Project description Media and Communication Organisational collaborators Associated Researchers: David Carlin Research Leader: Seale Kirsten on the map Putting the city ofliterature Project description Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell Warrnambool ArtGallery Horsham Regional ArtGallery Art Gallery ofBallarat RMIT Gallery Gunditjmara Traditional Owners Arts Victoria Corangamite Arts Winda Mara Aboriginal Corporation NETS Victoria Organisational collaborators Vaughan, Carmel Wallace, Wise, Kit Vicki Couzens Marion Manifold, Elizabeth Newman, Polixeni Papapetrou, Laurene Artists: Barbara Campbell, Lesley Duxbury, RuthJohnstone, GiniLee, Project Co-ordinator: Laetitia Shand Curators: Lisa Byrne, Harriet Edquist, Laurene Vaughan Victoria Aboriginal Resource Website Stony Rises: Case Studyfor Reconciliation of bestpractice of arts projects that have contributed to the work of The Stony Rises project (2008–2010) has beenselected as an example www.reconciliationvic.org.au www.melbournebooks.com.au/designing-place.html thestonyrisesproject.com of the Western District’ published by Melbourne Books. exhibition and abookpublication ‘Designing Place. AnArchaeology The outcomes from the Stony Rises project include amajor touring and strategies. important information for the development ofReconciliation projects ‘one-stop-shop’ providing information, case studies, contacts and other governments and reconciliation action groups, and is going to bea Victoria. The website willbeused primarily by Victorian local Victoria website ‘Maggolee’ that is being developed by Reconciliation A case study ofthe Stony Rises project willappear onanew Arts funding. artistic excellence, local government support, and state government reconciliation inVictoria. The project was selected onthe basis of Photograph: Lee Stapleton. Marion Manifold. Gallery, showing work by exhibition opening at RMIT The Stony Rises project

Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 11 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 12 The Circus Oz Living Archive project is prototyping and evaluating a Project description Council for the Arts Victorian Arts Centre Trust Deloitte Digital Australian Research Council (ARC) Circus Oz La Trobe University Computer Science Media and Communication Organisational collaborators Laetitia Shand, Reuben Stanton, James Thom, Lukman Iwan, Peta Tait Research Team: Laurene Vaughan, Adrian Miles,Jeremy Yuille, Lead Investigator: David Carlin ARC Linkage Project 2010–2013(LP100200118) engagement for the performing arts developing amodel ofonline digital The Circus Oz Living Archive: of Circus Arts, Arts, Circus of Cirque). Tait, P 2012, ‘The Critique of Circus Arts’ (Comment CritiquerInvited speaker les arts du be released to the public inearly 2013. scholarship and audience interaction. The online ‘living archive’ will heritage to drive innovations inrepertoire development, performance can help the performing arts employ their documented cultural future ofCircus Oz. The project researches how digital technologies shared online space for creative dialogue onthe history and artistic and interviews. The Circus Oz Living Archive is conceived as a recordings over 30years ofperformances, rehearsals, TV commercials ‘living archive’ built from the digitised Circus Oz videocollection of Fresh Circus #2: European Seminar on Sustainable Development Parc et Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, 12–13 April. 12–13 Paris, Villette, la de Halle Grande et Parc

www.zotero.org/groups/28062 Zotero public bibliography https://sites.google.com/site/circusarchive/ Blog http://archive.circusoz.com/ Circus Oz living archive site circusarchive.net/blog/2012/11/champions-day/ Champions Day, Community Launch Event, Major Circus Oz community events and workshops August 5th–6th,2011 Objects –School ofDesignStudies, College ofFine Arts, UNSW, Experimental Design Research Symposium, the Circus Oz Living Archive Collaboration’, Vaughan, L2012,‘designing, juggling, balancing and performing: Canberra, 19 December. Miles, A2012,‘Emerging Practices’, Textobjectext Symposium, Miles, A2012,‘Two Speculations onMateriality, the Digital and Allure’, the Miles, A2012,‘Nonfiction Assemblage Engines’ Paper presented at Digital Documentary Symposium, Miles, A2012,‘Digital Materiality: Porousness, Granularity, Facets’, Beyond Slowness, Miles, A2012,‘A!ect and the Objects ofRobert Croma’s Web Cinema’, (IABA) Conference, Project’, Carlin, D2012.‘Autobiography ofaCircus: Circus Oz Living Archive Conference presentations Nonfictionow, 8th BiennialInternational Auto/Biography Association RMITUniversity, 18November 2012http://www. RMITUniversity, Melbourne, 22November. RMIT University, Melbourne, 2July. Canberra, 17–20 July. LaTrobe Uni, Melbourne, 28November. Circus Oz Mezzanine, 2May 2012 ANU, Canberra, 18December. Visible Evidence XIX, inthe proceedings ofRed Collaboration in ANU, 5–10, 2012.Proceeding published inACM. dexterously for fire preparedness’ Akama, Y&LightA 2012,‘A candour inreporting: designing Publications their own contexts. process to enable residents to develop strategies that are specific to agencies. Itdemonstrates excellence incollaborative, design-led with community, local organisations and emergency management delivered innovative workshops and training programs inpartnership and social impact ofnatural disasters. Enabling Communities has communities is ane!ective way to diminish the financial costs Assisting peopleto beprepared and building strength in Project description Ku-ring-gai Council, NSW Australian Emergency Management Institute (AEMI) Bushfire CRC Centre for Sustainable Organisations and Work College ofBusiness Media and Communication Organisational collaborators Associated Researcher: Tania Ivanka Research Leader: Yoko Akama Communities andBushfire Bushfire CRC2010–2013E!ective Communication: bushfire preparedness community-based innovation, designing for Enabling communities: for bushfire preparedness’, Akama, YChaplin, SPhilips, S &Toh, strategies K2012‘Design-led Earth: Fire andRain –Australian & New CHI 2012,

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vimeo.com/49646137 communitybaseddesigninnovationbushfirepreparedness www.desis-lab.org/projects/1/enablingcommunities community resilience indisasters. excellence incollaborative, process design-led instrengthening Business and Innovation, Government ofVictoria, demonstrating Finalist, Victorian Premier’s DesignAward 2012,Department of Award symposium, RMITUniversity, 27thNovember 2012. to develop disaster resilience: media and communication focus networks perform inacommunity ofplace’ at Citizen engagement preparedness: understanding how bonding, bridging and linking Akama, Y&Ivanka T2012,‘Social networks and bushfire preparedness symposium, RMITUniversity, 18thOctober 2012. Communities and resilience: afocus onsocial networks for disaster Akama, Y2012,‘Social networks and bushfire preparedness’ at Presentations atsymposia Emergency Management. AEMI workshops intheir educational program Community in Ku-ring-gai Council Climate Wise Community workshop. Workshops published inACM. Design Conference, of DesignFacilitation inWorking withCommunities’, Light, A&Akama, Y2012,‘The Human Touch: Interrogating the Role Australia, 16–18th April 2012. Zealand Disaster andEmergency Management Conference Roskilde, Denmark, Aug 12–16, 2012.Proceeding

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Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 13 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 14 exertiongameslab.org/projects exertiongameslab.org/publications 2012 conferences. The fulllist can befound here: findings through 2012including the Fun and Games 2012and CHI Exertion Games Lab have published 14 conference papers onresearch Publications bodily experiences such as inexertion games. values and satisfaction. This research investigates how to designfor territories for the role ofinteraction designinsupporting lives fullof interactive experiences for the active human body, exploring new This work exemplifies alarger research agenda ofdesigning basketball hoops and vibrating skateboarding obstacles. on public transport, heart rate controlled bicycle helmets, interactive include flying robots as jogging companions, games for commuters Projects inthe Exertion Games Lab that refer to amediated city, Project description Yang, Rohit Ashok Khot Sebastiaan Pijnappel, Eric Dittlo!, RuthSancho Huerga, Ho Hsin Berry, Alan Chatham, Harry Lee, Alexander Perrin, Atticus Bastow, Timothy Je !s, Christopher Mackenzie, ‘Kit’ Chris Jones, Chris ‘Chad’ Toprak, Joshua Platt, Jonathan Marquez, Danielle Wilde, Associated Researchers: Wouter Walmink, Eberhard Gräther, Cagdas Research Leader: Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller Exertion Games Lab

www.51paintings.com historical note. consists ofdi!erent peoplere-enacting the images inlocations of countries withthe intention ofusing places as asilentcharacter, and screening ofthe movie. The filmwas shot between 2006–2012inthree accompanies the curated program and represents the firstpublic 51 Paintings is afeature length experimental videowork that Project description Media and Communication Organisational collaborators Research Leader: Shaun Wilson 51 Paintings Harriet Edquist, editor, confederation of architectural museums) Archives, Melbourne’, paper presented at Edquist, H2012,‘Archives as research hubs: the RMITDesign Publications Michael O’Connell 2011–2012 Harriet Edquist &Tansy Curtin, Exhibition Your Community Heritage grant: $25,000 Grant Rhodes and Timothy Moore opening inFebruary 2013. are in development stage, including Public O!er, an includesexhibition the by Frederick Kate Romberg project and severalHub other and projects is manifest that in teaching, exhibition, conferencesDesign Archives’and projects. engagement It with design research acrosscollections the Design in relation to design practice. This projectinnovative has ways oflookingarisen at and understanding historical material and out of the how archives can become partners in design research, Thisleading is the to ongoing project of the RMIT Design Archives. It investigatesProject description School ofArt Media and Communication Architecture and Design Research and Innovation Organisational collaborators Project Manager: Kaye Ashton Research Leader: Harriet Edquist The Active Archive www.rmit.edu.au/designarchives Design Archives Journal vol. 2,no. 1,pp. 5–11. Edquist, H2012,‘Joyce Co!ey (1918–2001): industrial RMIT designer’, , Bendigo ArtGallery RMIT Design Archives Journal Cologne, September 52012. ICAM16 (International The Lost Modernist. 2:12012 www.rmit.edu.au/designarchives publication ofthe works featured. ‘Frederick Romberg: AnArchitectural Survey’, which will include a Through 2012work has beenunderway onamajor exhibition in2013 Acquittal ofYour Community Heritage Grant 2013. Key outputs Romberg buildings, and physical models ofthe selected buildings. in Heritage Week, April 2013;apublication documenting selected early architectural practice projected inthe Archives’ window gallery produce anumber ofartefacts: avideopresentation ofRomberg’s archive’. The project’s trans-disciplinary team ofresearchers will RMIT DesignArchive’s commitment to the concept ofthe ‘active of selected archival objects, and secondly itwilldemonstrate the to Australia’s designheritage through analysis and re-presentation communicate architect Frederick Romberg’s distinctive contribution Government for $25,000, this project has two aims. Firstly itwill Funded by aYour Community Heritage grant from the Federal Project description School ofArt Media and Communication Architecture and Design Research and Innovation Organisational collaborators Project manager: Kaye Ashton Associated Researcher: Leto Tsolakis Keith Deverell, Stephen Banham Research Leaders: Harriet Edquist, Michael Spooner, A survey ofFrederick Romberg Disseminating Victoria’s DesignHeritage; render by Michael Spooner. Hotel Dolder, project 1938, Frederick Romberg, Grand

Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 15 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 16 democratic exhibitions.slv.vic.gov.au/dome100/exhibitions/free-secular-and- 1866–67. revisits the great Intercolonial Exhibition held at the Library site in room, and reveals how the Library’s collection was developed. Italso architecture, including the beautiful Queen’s Hall and domed reading this grand vision and its legacy today. Itexamines the building’s through learning. Free, secular and democratic tells the story of democratic and enlightened, o!ering free access to self-improvement Joseph Reed. They aimed to create acivic centre that was secular, colonial liberals including judgeSirRedmond Barryand architect museum, gallery and artschools –were established by agroup of The Library and the cultural institutions that shared its site –the Murdoch Gallery, opening 29 May, 2013. An exhibition to beheld at the State Library ofVictoria, Keith Project description State Library ofVictoria Research and Innovation Organisational collaborators Margot Jones, Mary Lewis, Eve Sainsbury, Clare Williamson Atkins, Edwina Bartlem, AnnCarew, Shane Carmody, Robert Heather, State Library ofVictoria research associates: Eleanor Adams, Megan Curator: Harriet Edquist the Melbourne Public Library 1853–1913 Free, Secular and Democratic:

Victoria. courtesy State Library of Library ArtExhibition 1869, Charles Nettleton, Public Thursday, 29 November 2012. RMIT University DesignResearch Institute Design:Business –Nathan Shedro ! free public lecture Thursday 29th ofNovember 2012. Design Hub (Pavilion 1), RMIT University DesignResearch Institute Design:Business –Booster workshop Strategy at California College ofthe Arts. and apublic lecture by Nathan Shedro!, chair ofthe MBA inDesign workshop to explore the topic ofdesignand business education, screening ofthe 2012film Addressed through di!erent media, Booster 1includes afeature business. addressed the hot topic ofhow designis changing the world of in framing and catalysing contemporary existence. Booster 1(2012) Booster is anannual celebration ofideas exploring the role ofdesign Project description Coppenhagen Business School, College ofBusiness Media and Communication Organisational collaborators Associated Researchers: Daved Barry Research Leader: Jeremy Yuille Booster stage 1–design:business Designing &Thinking , atwo day invitation social innovation and sustainability inAustralia. showcased designprojects and teaching studios that are practicing with invited speakers, workshops withleading designers and Lab Melbourne has conducted asymposium and discussion panel Throughout 2012,inpartnership withSwinburne University, DESIS- national and international platform. make the contribution ofdesignand social innovation visible at a innovation and sustainability. Itaims to generate knowledge and collaborate, share ideas and generate opportunities to support social practitioners, academic researchers, businesses and public institutions Melbourne is actively creating a forum where partnerships with design sustainable macro-transformations ofpeopleand places. DESIS-Lab DESIS explores micro, local-level experimentation to achieve Project description Swinburne University ofTechnology Architecture and Design Media and Communication Organisational collaborators Barnes and various other academic institutions and organisations Lockery, Laurene Vaughan, Neal Haslem, Tania Ivanka, Carolyn Associated Researchers: Soumitri Varadarajan, Simon Curlis, Simon Research Leader: Yoko Akama (DESIS) Lab Melbourne Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability DESIS-lab Melbourne 2day workshop. Close to 30participants Workshops and presentations

www.desis-lab.org several USthe with Japan. and in hubs DESIS bridges build further to Yoko Akama received a $5,000 ECR International Travel Award in 2012 Award 28 September 2012. Chris Vanstone, TACSI (The Australian Centre for Social Innovation), Innovators, 4September 2012. Steve Portigal, Portigal Consulting, USA: Skill Building for Design social innovation, 26thJune 2012. design, ethics,public services and the agency ofdesigninenabling Lab; David Hood from Doing Something Good.Panel discussion on Mellon University; Kate Archdeacon from Victorian Eco Innovation Managers Australia; Prof Cameron A. Tonkinwise from Carnegie Q&A panel discussion by Mel Edwards and Justin Barryfrom Design 2012. RMIT; Selena Gri#thfrom COFA University ofNSW. 1st–2nd March Swinburne University ofTechnology; Soumitri Varadarajan from Road; Mark Daniels from Social Traders; Kate Bissett-Johnson from Edwards from DesignManagers Australia; Dean Parkin from Second Moy from The Green Living Centre Sydney; Justin Barrieand Mel Sharma from The Australian Centre for Social Innovation; Dianne included Prof. Fumi Masuda from Tokyo Zokei University; Sandhya a collaborative space to support project opportunities. Key speakers knowledge-sharing, knowledge generation and reflection and to be Melbourne, to beanetwork for peopleto connect, become aplace for attended this event to clarify the vision and mission for DESIS-lab

Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 17 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 18 www.rmit.edu.au/nfn2012 publishers ofnonfiction from around the world. Melbourne, gathering leading artists, journalists, readers, writers and the firsttime Australia hosted this internationally renowned event in forms ofnonfiction, its history and new directions inthe genre. For more than 400peoplegathered for three days to discuss the myriad interdisciplinary. On21–24 November 2012at RMITUniversity, beyond the strictly literary, also embracing the audiovisual and NonfictioNow explores and embraces nonfiction creative practices Project description The University ofIowa Organisational collaborators Team Leader: David Carlin NonfictioNow Festival, Melbourne 1–4 Nov 2012. ‘Superfluous SilentMen’, participatory performances, the Village Key outputs and sustain ecologies. serves to demonstrate cultural Practices that foster social connectivity for the state ofnot-knowing but Presently doing, the PPPPPproject ecological, technological and Political conditions. Guided by asense and resiliently re-create modes ofengaging incontemporary social, order to develop the capacity ofParticipants to attentively, repeatedly non-expert knowledge and know-how is Privileged by the Project in be maintained so as to learn ofPowers at Play. The openness of and Pattern whilst exploring how the openness ofPre-expertise can creating situations that Play themselves out, negotiating Paradox through Performance and Participation. The Project Proceeds by of how People, things and Places mightsummon uncertain Powers The PPPPPproject undertakes acreative Practice based exploration Project description School ofArt Media and Communication Architecture and Design Organisational collaborators Sebastiaan Pijnappel, Wil Campbell, EkTeck Su Associated Researchers: Neal Haslem, Ceri Hann, Research Leader: MickDouglas PPPPP Group

Key outputs culture and citizenship. broader shifts incontemporary Asian societies inrelation to identity, are interested inwhat the rise ofsuch programming can tell usabout life: these programs are etiquette manuals for the 21stcentury. We in auniquely direct way to the everyday practice ofordinary social life inAsia. Insuch programs, entertainment media addresses itself barometer ofbroader cultural changes currently transforming social Taiwan? This research project sees lifestyle advice programming as a and beauty and fashion advice TV like in China, personal makeover shows like Style Doctors inSingapore, of MasterChef, home renovation shows like How can we understand the recent appearance ofanIndian version Project description Media and Communication Organisational collaborators Research Leader: Tania Lewis Telemodernities: lifestyle TV inAsia www.telemodernities.org/tele/ 53–76. Women andtheMediainAsia on Singapore and Taiwan Television’, Y, inKim, Martin, F&Lewis, T2012,‘Lifestyling Women: Emergent Femininities (forthcoming 2013). The Cultural Intermediaries Reader, Lewis, T‘Lifestyle Media’, in Smith Maguire, J&Matthews, J(eds.), Journal of Cultural Studies modernity and sel$ood onlife advice programming’, Lewis, TMartin, F&Sun, W2012,‘Lifestyling Asia? Shaping , vol. 15,no. 6,pp. 537–566. , Palgrave MacMillan, London, pp. London: Thousand Oaks/Sage, 女人我最大 交换空间 The Precarious Self: (Queen) in (Swap Places) International Group exhibition: Embracing Innovation –Volume 2. 1177-6234). SMT Studies inMaterial Thinking can radically inform the development ofour therapeutic technologies’. Heiss, L 2012, ‘Therapeutic Art Practice: How experimental artpractice Craft ACT Gallery. Key outputs the device. workshop-style hands-on brainstorming to generate possible forms for through anartpractice approach that utilises iterative models and The form and user interface ofthe Seed Sensor are being designed still relatively rudimentary. a lessinvasive biomedical application where current applications are moves through the digestive tract. The aimofthe project is to achieve deploying asensitive membrane, which captures particles ofgas as it swallowable tablet that unfolds like aflower once inthe small intestine etc.) that may beasymptom ofundiagnosed disease. The ‘seed’ is a that detects gas fluctuations inthe body (methane, carbon dioxide gathered from the body. The ‘Seed Sensor’ is aswallowable device project developing uniqueways to harness and use medical data The Seed Sensor is atrans-disciplinary art/science/engineering Project description Electrical and Computer Engineering Architecture and Design Organisational collaborators Associated Researcher: Paul Beckett Research Leader: Leah Heiss Seed Sensor , University ofAuckland. (ISSN Photograph: Narelle Sheean.

Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 19 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 20 when rangers move on.This research has explored the potential for a experience, is inaccessible to other rangers and vanishes completely park specific knowledge, obtained by rangers through years of better utilise the knowledge itand its sta! have? Currently, valuable The question that has framed this research is – How can Parks Victoria Project description Parks Victoria Math and Geospatial Science Media and Communication Organisational collaborators (Parks Victoria) Jeremy Yuille, Adrian Miles,Brian Morris, Jim Whelans Associated Researchers: Laurene Vaughan, Colin Arrowsmith, Research Leader: William Cartwright ARC Linkage Project LP0883291 making innatural environments A location based service to assist decision ARC Linkage Project Geoplaced knowledge: approach. More broadly, ithas given insights into how knowledge of this knowledge, using aparticipatory orembedded design location based service to assist withthe retention and dissemination

Research_1 C, Cartwright, W, Jones, S, & Shortis, M(eds) Environmental knowing inmixed reality’, inArrowsmith, C,Bellman, Marmo, C,Cartwright, W, &Yuille, J, 2012,‘Geo-placed Knowledge: Research_1 Cartwright, W, Jones, S&Shortis, M(eds), tool to assist park management’, inArrowsmith, C,Bellman, C, collaborative Web concepts to the development ofageo-knowledge Elsley, M.and Cartwright, W., 2012,‘Applying contemporary and Springer-Verlag, pp.55–66. WE (eds), Cartwright, W2013,‘Artefacts and geospaces’, inKriz, K&Cartwright, Key outputs and cultural analysis. exploration integrating geospatial sciences withdesign,social media cultural contexts. This has beenachieved through aninterdisciplinary can mediate the space between individuals, their environment and this project evidence the way inwhich technology and social media beyond the boundaries ofindividuals. The designexplorations in about alocation can bee!ectively retained and communicated Understanding Di!erent Geographies , Melbourne: Publishing Solutions. , Melbourne: Publishing Solutions. Geospatial Science Geospatial Science Photograph: Chris Marmo. , Heidelberg: CUSP –designing for the next Decade, running from 2013–2015. Confirmed exhibition inseven galleries across Australia as part of medical jewellery using nanotechnologies and microtechnologies. of emergency jewellery, and the potential to therapeutically augment project that willinvestigate the language, symbology and semiotics 2015. These initial investigations provide the groundwork for alarger as part ofCUSP –designing for the next decade, running from 2013– The prototypes willbeexhibited inseven galleries across Australia in 2013and for use as proof ofconcept for future grant applications. generated arange ofadditive manufactured prototypes for exhibition to improve human health and well-being. Through 2012they have This working group is dedicated to developing new designsolutions with StVincent’s Hospital and the Nossal Institute for Global Health. Leah Heiss and Keely Macarow have developed aworking group allergies and identity intimes ofmedical crisis. Throughout 2012 well-researched and designed emergency jewellery to identifyuser’s The SOS –Emergency Jewellery project addresses the need for Project description School ofArt Architecture and Design Organisational collaborators Research Team: Leah Heiss, Keely Macarow SOS –Emergency Jewellery Photograph: Narelle Sheean. www.fedsquare.com/ www.sgmart.com/dwjl/eng/index.html rmit.net.au/browse;ID=mphqhclpor1a www.lumensfestival.com the Photo Imaging Research Network, supported by Arts Victoria. Lumens is part ofthe DRIMediated City Artin Chinatown Strategy, evidence ofSuzhou as acentre for silkproduction and trade. Suzhou’s network ofancient canals laced throughout the city centre, projected as anightfestival, throughout Ping Jiang Road, part of contemporary photography and videopractices. Curated works were the Sisters States ofVictoria, Australia and Jiangsu, China through encourage intercultural dialogue and relationship building between renewed meaning to heritage sites. The research project also aimed to art enriches and transforms the experience ofurban spaces and brings of the project was to research how public based contemporary visual project held inthe city ofSuzhou, Jiangsu, China, May 2012.The aim Lumens Festival: Curating theAncient City Project description Federation Square Chinese Museum Suzhou Art,Designand Technology Institute School ofArt Organisational collaborators Associated Researchers: Shane Hulbert, Geo!Hogg &Clare Leporati Research Leader: Tammy Hulbert Lumens Festival: Curating the Ancient City

was avisual arts research

Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 21 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 22 art_award_2012/videos www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/past/2012/national_new_media_ www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCqvme_D--s art_award_2012/artists/leah_heiss www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/past/2012/national_new_media_ August-November 2012.Attendance 250,000–300,000. Exhibition at GOMA as part ofthe National New Media Artist Award, Key outputs forming empathetic connections withnon-organic elements. the idea ofunseen forces acting uponusand also the notion of the presence ofaconcealed magnetic field.The project investigates layer ofblack magnetic fluid liesat the base ofeach vessel, pulsing to collection of25 hand blown glass vessels containing Ferro Fluid. A installation. The installation involved the creation and display ofa magnetic liquid(Ferro Fluid) as acentral part ofadynamic The work is the latest inaseries ofprojects using nano-engineered Gallery ofModern Art,Queensland. Polarity was developed for the National New Media ArtAward at the Project description Gallery ofModern ArtQueensland Architecture and Design Organisational collaborators Research Leader: Leah Heiss materials Polarity –Designing withnext generation Mark Sherwood. Photograph:

Wilson (RMIT). (RMIT), Dr. Cli !ord Evers (Uni Nottingham Nigbo), and Dr. Shaun will bereleased in Altitude Journal co-edited by Dr. Marsha Berry manifesto in2010, talk and fieldquestions. Publication of proceedings Cologne, saw Dr. Sabria David, author ofthe Slow Media academics from Swinburne, Monash and UTas. ASkype hook upfrom and featured arange ofpapers from RMITacademics, along with The Slow Media Symposium was held at the Green Brain onJuly 2nd Project description University ofTasmania Swinburne University ofTechnology Media and Communication Organisational collaborators Associated Researchers: Marsha Berry, Clifton Evers Research Leader: Shaun Wilson Slow Media particularly incountries such as Vietnam, Indonesia and India. designers can have product handmade invillages orworkshops, the growing practice ofoutsourcing artisanal processes so that urban Council ofGraphic DesignAssociations (ICOGRADA), and concerns partnership withUNESCO, World Craft Council and International EDL is to develop aCode ofPractice for Creative Collaborations in Council and Australia India Institute. The major project of the Platform, athree-year program ofresearch funded by the Australia The firststage inthis development is the Australia India Design the social impact ofdesignlocally and globally. The Ethical DesignLaboratory responds to current concerns about Project description College ofFine Art,University ofNew South Wales University ofMelbourne Law School Fashion and Textiles Industrial Design Centre for Design Organisational collaborators Jo Cramer, Liz Williamson Associated Researchers: Shaun McVeigh, Soumitri Varadarajan, Research Leader: Kevin Murray Australia India DesignPlatform SANGAM Project:

visiting scholars and practitioners. activities ofthe DFLinclude public presentations, project critiques, to create new projects, collaborations and research outcomes. The DFL is to harness existing expertise and research practices inorder projects and their outcomes can befound inthis report. The aimofthe Researchers withinthe DFLare active inanumber ofDRIa#liated expressions ofnew knowledge and passionate ideas. ‘real world’ problem solving, to interactive, iterative and a!ective the present and future. Ourfocus ranges from industry-oriented experiences and social transformation inthe designmatrices of explorations into new forms ofplay, inthe designofservices, and dissemination across Australia and the world. This includes industries and creative practices that support information gathering technological, cultural, and expressive modes ofcommunication; in locally, regionally and internationally. We are interested in design intersects withglobal media and how the world communicates and practice. Members are united around key questions ofhow RMIT, that has aparticular focus incommunication designresearch The DesignFutures Lab (DFL) is anemergent research group within Project description Media and Communication Organisational collaborators Yaron Meron, Shana Agid Akama, Marius Foley, Russell Kerr, Tania Ivanka, Reuben Stanton, Associated Researchers: Angelina Russo, Laurene Vaughan, Yoko Research Leader: Neal Haslem Design Futures Lab

Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 23 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 24 renewal program, and the introduction of meant contributing to the Schools PhD strategic change. InLaurene’s case this has and work withmembers ofthe School on of expertise into the School’s activities, School ofDesignis to contribute her areas The role ofthe Nierenberg Chair inthe field. prominence indesignoradesign-related who has achieved national orinternational Chair beheld by anoutstanding individual world, and itwas his wish that the Nierenberg development and promotion ofdesigninthe Design. He played animportant role inthe one ofthe founders ofDansk International served as aLife Trustee ofthe university, was Engineering Management, 1944) who also Nierenberg, aCarnegie Mellon alumnus (BS, from the late Mr. Theodore D. Nierenberg. professorship through agenerous gift of Designwas established as avisiting academic year. The Nierenberg Chair Mellon University, USA, for the 2012–2013 Design, inthe School ofDesign,Carnegie Chair, Distinguished Visiting Professor of been invited to take upthe role ofNierenberg Associate Professor Laurene Vaughan has Research Leader ofMediated City Flagship, Professor ofDesign Distinguished Visiting Nierenberg Chair, groups exploring higher degrees for design This has included participating inwork a practice-based PhDas amode ofstudy. vimeo.com/50310498 project. for completing and designing their research Students ondesign methods and strategies Safety. She has also beenworking withGrad social change around Guns and Child are exploring designapproaches to address with local partner In this course students, incollaboration Design, Place and Social Innovation Studio 2013) she is leading another Senior Studio, to discover more. Inthe Spring (January–May world issues, students then designed methods wonderment. By scoping the world for real to designresearch through aframework of Lab of athree part rotating studio call the 2012) she taught the In the Fall Semester (August–December student studios. has beenteaching into the Seniors (4th year) research dissemination. Additionally, she School ofDesignand mentoring peersin research community and outcomes inthe and architecture practitioners, growing the . Inthis course students were introduced Citizens for aSafer PA Wonderlab –one part Agility

. take place in2013. COIL is inpreparation for aprogram that will New York, Europe and Australia. logged onto the project from campuses in students inthe DRIwiththose who are tasks for the NAO ROBOT that connects the team willdevelop simple programs and Collaborative Online International Learning, the State University ofNew York, Center for and instructional technologists from DRIand environments. Including educators, students online and blended multicultural learning fostering research and exchange through COIL team aims to explore strategies for cost-e!ective internationalization. The and learning methodology for innovative COIL represents anemerging teaching Project description State University ofNew York Media and Communication Organisational collaborators Associated Researchers: Damian Schofield Research Leader: Lisa Dethridge Communication in Trans-Humanism and Robot International Learning Project COIL Collaborative Online recently working withthe City ofWhittlesea onasocial mapping and Research Seed Fund 2012.The project is on-going in2013,most University’s College ofDesignand Social Context International Homefullness campaign also secured $8000funding through RMIT Application, Team transdisciplinarity and Design Development. The against the criteria ofDesignInnovation, Impact, Practicality, by aninternational panel ofacademic and industry experts Square, Melbourne from 14–21 April 2012. Projects were judged Design Challenge 2011:Homelessness, exhibited at Federation Homefullness was afinalist inthe RMIT DesignResearch Institute Project description City ofWhittlesea School ofArchitecture, KTH,Stockholm, Sweden Institute (AHURI) Architecture and DesignAustralian Housing and Urban Research Media and Communication School ofArt Organisational collaborators Melbourne. City ofWhittlesea), MimWhiting, documentary filmmaker and artist, Stockholm, Sweden), Margie McKay (Coordinator ofUrban Design– Stockholm, Sweden), Rochus Hinkel (Architect, academic and curator, Macarow, Guy Johnson, Hélène Frichot (School ofArchitecture, KTH, The UNTITLEDCollective: MickDouglas, Neal Haslem, Keely Homefullness and have expertise inarchitecture, urban design, art,housing The UNTITLED collective is based inMelbourne and Stockholm fictional designnarratives project. [email protected] www.homefullness.net Fund 2012,$8,000. College ofDesignand Social Context International Research Seed 2012 Homelessness exhibition, Federation Square, Melbourne, 14–21 April Homefullness, The UNTITLEDCollective, DRIChallenge: (supported by KTH,Stockholm and RMITUniversity, Melbourne) 7 December 2012Fargfabriken Lovholmsbrinken 111743 Stockholm Homefullness Roundtables organised by The UNTITLEDCollective Key outputs unsustainable ways-of-being in the public realm. ethical designpractice that aims to change entrenched, systemic and provides insights into how social campaigns and the complexities of transparent and inclusive discourse. The Homefullness campaign become the tools ofcommunication and mobilisation, enabling a Through this process the very tools ofdesign conceptualisation provisional futures serve as disjunctive—and generative—provocations. to entice engagement over abroad domain. These glimpses of a manifesto for ‘full-housing’ withagraphic-novel visual language aims to bring about real change. The Homefullness campaign utilises complexity and multivocality within asocio-political campaign which a participative designprocess. Itinvestigates how one can maintain investigates how these issues can be activated and negotiated through for negotiating intractable social issues—like homelessness—and and communication design. Homefullness innovates methodologies research and activism, philosophy and criticism, industrial design

Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 25 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 26 understood and applied inbothpolicy and practice. concept across the humanities, arts and social sciences to bebetter inquiry. Thereby enabling the nature and significance ofplace as akey development ofplace research as anew interdisciplinary fieldof RMIT and the University ofTasmania the PRNwillalso further the concept. Building onanalready dynamic bodyofresearch across directed towards ‘place’ as acentral conceptual and methodological and support innovative research and practice that draws uponoris and experience ofplace. Inparticular itaims to promote, facilitate and undertaking transdisiciplinary investigations into the designing The Network is aproject committed to facilitating, communicating thinkers who explore themes ofplaced-based research. philosophers, scholars, artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, and other The Place Research Network is aninter-discipline collective of Project description Media and Communication Organisational collaborators Graham Young, and Jesse Mitchell Newman Wilson, John ADouglas, Tammy Honey, Andrew Thomas Huang, Associated Researchers: Marsha Berry, Laurene Vaughan, Shaun Research Leader: Shaun Wilson Place Research Network light-work-20120713-220l1.html www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/many-minds-make- www.vic.gov.au/event/2012/07/revoicing-the-striated-soundscape.html tentatively titled ‘non-linear footsteps’. Development ofaninteractive Max/MSP patch for aninstallation Soundscape City ofMelbourne funded sound installation Key outputs urban soundscape design. architecture, creating new knowledge for the burgeoning domain of software development, electroacoustic installation and landscape research questions that traverse the disciplines ofsound design, installation ofthe work inthe DesignHub. The project explores further sound designby Jordan Lacey. Following this willbeatrial is the development ofaninteractive trigger by Steve Adams and patch by programmer Steve Adams. The next stage ofthis project was recently completed withthe development ofaMax/MSP soundscape installation using footsteps, the firststage ofwhich space for social transformation. The second iteration is aninteractive concentrated onrecomposing city sounds and creating asonic of Melbourne, was installed behind the RMITbookshop and the Striated Soundscape public spaces using everyday sounds. The firstiteration This is anongoing project exploring soundscape designfor Project description SIAL Sound Studios –Architecture and Design Organisational collaborators Associated Researchers: Charles Anderson, Jordan Lacey Research Leader: Lawrence Harvey soundscape and non-linear footsteps Everyday Sounds: revoicing the striated Sonic Installations for Public Space using .

apublic artcommission withthe City

Revoicing theStriated Revoicing social media. Itdoesthis through anextension ofBlind Contour digitalized world, through re-evaluation of the role ofdrawing within the nature ofa‘portrait’ ofidentity defined by anurbanized and transcontinental faces Through practice-led research and reflection onoutcomes, Project description cooperation withthe Goethe Institute Australia Art, Cities&Transformation Research Group, Presented in Reutlingen University, Region, Germany School ofArt Organisational collaborators Tromsdorf, Tatjana Zhabina Uta Krauss, Annie Kurz, Christina Liadeli, Chantal Rasquin, Thea Christopher Bold,Georgina Humphries, Dan Mitchell, Fiona Hillary, Associated Researchers (Australia/Germany): PixiMix,Freya Pitt, (Germany) Research Leaders: Maggie McCormick (Australia), Henning Eichinger Transcontinental Faces Skypetrait: idea that when we draw we mirror ourselves as much as the other. the public space ofSkype. The Skype screen interface reinforces the Drawing and Drawing onthe RightSideofthe Brain techniques into

research aimis to understand more fully Skypetrait: creative.arte.tv/en/space/Skypetrait/messages/ and online at ARTE Creative TV (France/Germany). residency at Reutlingen University; fullcolour, hard copy publication and Reutlingen City Hall, Germany; RMITiAIRartresidency and art 2013 at RMITProject Space/Spare Room, the City Library, Melbourne Projections (Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2012); exhibitions in Key outputs collective consciousness ofour times. of the individual as aninvestigation into, and amapping of, the Gestalt. Inthis context ‘portraiture’ becomes lessofaninterpretation In this case opposites are drawn together that form the whole orDie

Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 27 Mediated City Annual Review 2012 | 28 www.liquidarchitecture.org.au August –14thSeptember 2013 Festival 14:The Sonic City, which willruninMelbourne from 29th The team has beendeveloping the LiquidArchitecture Sound Art of the city. for dialogue about the social, environmental and political dimensions performances and public workshops/talks this project creates spaces perceptions experiences ofcity spaces. As aseries ofexhibitions, space and the ways inwhich artreactivates and challenges everyday presentations. Itis generated out ofcurrent research into urban of site-determined sonic and visual performance/installation art spatial and visual properties ofurban space through anexploration and improvised artistic (design) encounters. Itanalyses sonic, space can bere-imagined and mediated through mobile, temporal Liquid Architecture Sound ArtFestival. Itresearches how urban The Sonic City is atransnational project initially developed for the Project description Liquid Architecture Festival ofSound Art School ofArt Organisational collaborators Sarah Edwards Associated Researchers: Cath Clover, Darrin Verhagen, Research Leaders: Philip Samartzis, Kristen Sharp The Sonic City

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