RMIT Design Hub Building 100, Corner Victoria & Swanston Streets, Melbourne RMIT University acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations as the traditional owners of the land on which the University stands. RMIT University respectfully recognises Elders both past and present. A pile of Candidates. Supervisors. words from Panels. Community. the Chair 9 Examinations. 17 Examiners.

With the entire School moving into the Design Hub, and a change 14 Universities. Symposia. PRS packs. of Deans, A+D is in the midst of transition. The PRS aims to inhabit this interesting condition with a rich complex (or compost?) of Gallery spaces. Book launches. convergences and invitations: Exhibitions. Coordination. Booklets. Keynote Symposia Events. The Friday night keynote symposium will explore Situating Creative Practice Research across a range of Rain. Paper Cups. Farewell to a cultural, disciplinary and organisational contexts, and launch a new book edited by Laurene Vaughan, which contains many essays from Dean. Welcome New Dean. Wifi. our immediate community. On Saturday, we have two parallel events: 1) a supervision practices forum – Transformational shifts in research Fruit. Spoons. Coffee. Detritus. Wine. and supervision, convened by Mick Douglas, and 2) a panel discussion – Boyd & Research – exploring the design research implicit to Robin Champagne. Beer. Models. Dust. Boyd’s wide reaching practice, and launching the 2017 Routledge publication Robin Boyd: Spatial Continuity, by Mauro Baracco and In-progress review. Milestone review. Louise Wright. This session is convened by Megan Patty (PhD candidate and NGV Publications Project Manager). Instagram. Abstracts. Keynote Creative Projects. We invite you to engage in Food. Posters. Gestures. a project by James Carey titled, dusting [two days] 2017. Please read instructions (in the PRS pack) on how to contribute Tea. Steel mesh. Circles. to this over the weekend. Additionally, the PRS EU brings us the ADAPT-r Travelling Box Exhibition, exhibited in the Design Hub foyer. Light. Laughter. Words. Invitations to participate in an AU version for October are in your PRS pack. Stairs. Elevators. DAP_r OLT Project. A Sydney symposium in May, The Language of More Detritus. Practice Research, was a great success, evidencing the quality of our Australian practice research community and the potentials therein for More Words. future collaboration. We look forward to other DAP_r events occurring this year. We are happy to see a growing number of candidates from More Dust. other universities presenting on the weekend.

Farewell + Welcome. This is a moment to extend enormous gratitude and appreciation to our Dean, Prof. Richard Blythe, who is leaving RMIT. His stellar leadership across many great initiatives will continue More. to make a difference long after his departure. We welcome Prof. Martyn Hook as our incoming, interim Dean with great anticipation, and very much look forward to his leadership.

There is always more to say, but that will have to do.

Pia Ednie-Brown, Chair, A+D PRS. Program of June Public Events 2017

PhD Examinations Progress Reviews and Events

Please arrive 15 minutes before exam starts as no late entry Friday 2 June

Wednesday 31 May 4.30pm - 5.30pm – Foyer, Level 3 PRS registration and drinks Kathy Waghorn – The Practice of Feeling for Place: a compendium for an expanded architecture ADAPT-r Box Exhibition (on show until 6 June) 10.30am - 12.30pm – Project Room 1, Level 2 5.30pm - 7pm, Lecture Theatre, Level 3 Penny Allan – Feeling Indeterminate: the experience and design of big landscapes Welcome to Country 2.30pm - 4.30pm – Project Room 1, Level 2 Keynote Symposium – Situating Creative Practice Research

Saturday 3 June Thursday 1 June All day from 9am Scott Elliott – In Pursuit of Puzzlement: How architecture can pose questions HDR candidates’ progress reviews, various venues, Design Hub (see detailed program) 10am - 12pm – Project Room 1, Level 2 12.55pm - 1.50pm – Project Room 1, Level 2 Kate Church – Embracing Imminence: land ... scapes and the peculiar distance Research strategies and supervision practices forum – Transformational shifts in research and 2.30pm - 4.30pm – Project Room 1, Level 2 supervision

Simon Twose – Drawing/building/cloud/ sfumato practice as an open work 12.55pm - 1.50pm – Foyer, Level 1 2.30pm - 4.30pm – Project Room 2, Level 2 Panel discussion and book launch – Robin Boyd: Spatial Continuity

6pm - 6.30pm – Long Room, Level 10 Friday 2 June Drinks

Mani Williams – Let’s Track! Strategies to establish active people tracking in workplaces 6.30 - 8pm – Long Room, Level 10 10am - 12pm – Project Room 2, Level 2 PRS Dinner (RSVP only)

Robert Simeoni – Capturing: The language of Robert Simeoni Sunday 4 June 10am - 12pm – Foyer and Ramp, Level 1 All day from 9.30am Jim Barbour – Spatial Audio Engineering: Exploring Height in Acoustic Space HDR candidates’ progress reviews, various venues, Design Hub (see detailed program) 2.30pm - 4.30pm – SIAL Sound Studio, Level 1 1.30 - 3pm – Warehouse, Level 6 Cameron Bruhn – The alter ego of editorial intelligence DAP_r Workshop – Mapping Impact in Creative Practice Research (by invitation) 2.30pm - 4.30pm – Foyer, Level 1 3.30pm - 4.30pm – Long Room, Level 10 Closing drinks and informal discussion Contents 09

54 Chris Knapp PhD (Architecture and Design) 55 Ronnie Lacham PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD Examinations 56 Thierry Lacoste PhD (Architecture and Design) 57 Michael Lavery PhD (Architecture and Design) 13 Kathy Waghorn PhD (Architecture and Design) 58 Simon Lloyd PhD (Architecture and Design) 14 Penny Allan PhD (Architecture and Design) 59 Romaine Logere PhD (Media and Communication) 15 Scott Elliott PhD (Architecture and Design) 60 Derren Lowe PhD (Architecture) Newcastle 16 Kate Church PhD (Architecture and Design) 61 Emma Luke PhD (Architecture and Design) 17 Simon Twose PhD (Architecture and Design) 62 Hamish Lyon PhD (Architecture and Design) 18 Mani Williams PhD (Architecture and Design) 63 Max Marschall PhD (Architecture and Design) 19 Robert Simeoni PhD (Architecture and Design) 64 Samuel Mcgilp PhD (Architecture and Design) 20 Jim Barbour PhD (Architecture and Design) 65 Lucinda McLean PhD (Architecture and Design) 21 Cameron Bruhn PhD (Architecture and Design) 66 Brendan Meney PhD (Architecture) Newcastle 67 Ben Milbourne PhD (Architecture and Design) 68 Tal Mor Sinay PhD (Architecture and Design) Progress Reviews 69 Manuel Muehlbauer PhD (Architecture and Design) 70 Jason Parmington PhD (Architecture and Design) 24 Alisa Andrasek PhD (Architecture and Design) 71 Anthony Parsons PhD (Architecture) Newcastle 25 Tim Angus PhD (Architecture and Design) 72 Megan Patty PhD (Architecture and Design) 26 Thomas Bailey PhD (Architecture and Design) 73 Olivia Pintos-Lopez PhD (Architecture and Design) 27 Stephen Banham PhD (Media and Communication) 74 Amaara Raheem PhD (Architecture and Design) 28 Michael Banney PhD (Architecture and Design) 75 Toby Reed PhD (Architecture and Design) 29 Roseanne Bartley PhD (Architecture and Design) 76 Rosie Scott PhD (Architecture and Design) 30 Megan Baynes PhD (Architecture and Design) 77 Vanessa Sooprayen PhD (Architecture) Newcastle 31 Simon Bold PhD (Architecture) Newcastle 78 Simon Spain PhD (Architecture and Design) 32 Timothy Burke PhD (Architecture) Newcastle 79 Ha Minh Hai Thai PhD (Architecture and Design) 33 Alyssa Choat PhD (Fashion and Textiles) UTS 80 Willhelmina Wahlin PhD (Communication Design) CSU 34 Gyungju Chyon PhD (Architecture and Design) 81 Paul Wakelam PhD (Architecture and Design) QUT 35 Tanya Court PhD (Architecture and Design) 82 Niki Wallace PhD (Architecture and Design) UniSA 36 Kristof Crolla PhD (Architecture and Design) 83 Simon Whibley PhD (Architecture and Design) 37 Victoria Cullen PhD (Architecture and Design) 84 Eileen Zhang PhD (Architecture and Design) 38 Norman Darwin PhD (Architecture and Design) 85 Leanne Zilka PhD (Architecture and Design) 39 John De Manincor PhD (Architecture and Design) 40 John Doyle PhD (Architecture and Design) 88 DAP_r Partners 41 Nicholas Flatman PhD (Architecture) Newcastle 42 Sophie Gaur PhD (Media and Communication) 43 Stuart Geddes PhD (Communication Design) 44 Jock Gilbert PhD (Architecture and Design) 45 Jeremy J. Ham PhD (Architecture and Design) 46 Drew Heath PhD (Architecture) Newcastle 47 Tania Ivanka PhD (Architecture and Design) 48 Emma Jackson PhD (Architecture and Design) 49 Mark Jacques PhD (Architecture and Design) 50 Sarah Jamieson PhD (Architecture and Design) 51 Eduardo Kairuz PhD (Architecture and Design) 52 Christopher Kaltenbach PhD (Architecture and Design) 53 Chuan Khoo PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD June Examinations 2017 Kathy Waghorn Wednesday 31 May, 10:30am - 12:30pm 13 Project Room 1, Level 2, Design Hub PhD (Architecture and Design) Examiners: Prof Marie Sierra, Dr Karen Burns Chair: Prof Sand Helsel Supervisors: Dr Mick Douglas, Dr Charles Anderson

The Practice of Feeling for Place: a compendium for an expanded architecture

The practice of feeling for place proceeds who pursue critical spatial practices. From from a hunch that a correspondence between the practice I identify tactical ways of art and architecture might expand the field operating that expand the architectural field of architecture through foregrounding the by embracing time, process and subjectivity. complexity of place. Activating knowing- Taking up the unexpected roles and through-practising, I fashion an experimental positions that emerge in this expanded field I self as an agile figure who moves across and encourage a pedagogic disposition towards between art and architecture, amateur and ‘paying attention’ and ‘piecing together’ as I expert, outsider and local. This experimental draw on forms of agency to intervene in or self cultivates a practico-social-spatial coalesce place assemblages. energetics, catalysing situations and influencing others to invokefeeling for place as a political, ethical and aesthetic task.

This practice finds allegiances as it rubs up against the attributes and procedures of socially engaged art and alongside those Penny Allan Wednesday 31 May, 2:30pm - 4:30pm Scott Elliott Thursday 1 June, 10:00am - 12:00pm 15 Project Room 1, Level 2, Design Hub Project Room 1, Level 2, Design Hub PhD (Architecture and Design) Examiners: Prof Catherin Bull, Dr Jo Russell-Clarke PhD (Architecture and Design) Examiners: Dr Terri Bird, Prof Julieanna Preston Chair: Dr Charles Anderson Chair: Prof Sand Helsel Supervisors: Dr Marcelo Stamm, Prof SueAnne Ware Supervisors: A/Prof Pia Ednie-Brown, A/Prof Jondi Keane, Dr Charles Anderson

Feeling Indeterminate: the experience and design of big landscapes In Pursuit of Puzzlement: How architecture can pose questions

A fundamental challenge for landscape on process, my work is concerned with Through building site-specific architectural between body and architecture. Rather than architects is the need to deal with landscape experience, specifically with how big interventions, this PhD develops an artistic foreclosing with conclusions, the aim is to in a constant state of transformation. In the landscapes feel. I am interested in what practice that draws out puzzlement and generate a puzzlement that opens up the last two decades, an entire sub discipline has kinds of knowledge and sensibilities can be tentativeness in the relationships between potential for reconstructing body-architecture grown around documenting and designing extracted through the direct experience of body and architecture. This research proposes interdependencies. with and for this complex condition. Most complex landscapes. From the examination that posing spatial questions through the This doctoral research, conducted through approaches are concerned with mapping of my own body of work and the select work construction of puzzling environments artistic practice, occurs within the field of flux and deal with landscape systems from of others, I distil and test three strategies to and interventions allows an open-ended architectural art installations, and is informed a regional perspective. But the complexity make the central notion of ‘how landscape engagement with surroundings to develop by specific lineages in art practice and of large-scale landscape systems can be feels’, operational. I discover two things: over time. philosophy that explore relations between overwhelming, and it is difficult to shift that the experience of big landscapes makes Rather than questioning rhetorically through body and architecture. It offers a contribution perspective from the very big to the human tangible a sense of indeterminacy which language and reflection, questions are to art practices that engage with architecture, scale, which leaves human experience largely abstract mapping misses entirely. and posed through the space and materials of and proposes how art can intervene into and unaccounted for in these approaches. furthermore, that this feeling of indeterminacy engagement, by extending elements from inflect our relationship with built surroundings is the foundation of human agency and a given architectural environment that to not only reveal contingencies between In this PhD, I propose an alternative adaptation. becomes inflected and destabilized. These body and architecture, but also open up perspective. Against the discipline’s focus extensions create material encounters that potentials for rethinking and recasting this begin to reveal the contingent relations relationship. Kate Church Thursday 1 June, 2:30pm - 4:30pm Simon Twose Thursday 1 June, 2:30pm - 4:30pm 17 Project Room 1, Level 2, Design Hub Project Room 2, Level 2, Design Hub PhD (Architecture and Design) Examiners: Prof Ross Gibson, Dr Janine Randerson PhD (Architecture and Design) Examiners: Ms Esther Anatolitis, Dr Sam Spurr Chair: A/Prof Pia Ednie-Brown Chair: A/Prof Suzie Attiwill Supervisors: Dr Mick Douglas, Prof Peter Downton Supervisors: Dr Michael Spooner, Dr Anna Johnson

Embracing Imminence : land ... scapes and the peculiar distance Drawing/building/cloud/ sfumato practice as an open work

Embracing Imminence casts a realigned Each mode ‘grasps for’ and suspends the This PhD is an exploration into practice as an student projects through to architectural and landscape practice into the temporal lag dynamic, entangled conditions of the restless ongoing process of drawing, using my body academic practice. Evidence in this practice; immediately preceding the Anthropocene’s body and the shifting ground as an expanded of work as source material. I am interested drawing, building; marks, atmospheres, are official ratification, anticipating the conceptual practice of making. Collectively, these modes in how practice, as drawing, might invest thought to jostle together within a cloud and disciplinary implications of this epoch. of practice modulate, waylay and ‘hold open’ architecture with poiēsis, gleaned from of relations. The research charts ‘formative Just as the last bastion of the ground’s a relation to imminence. drawing’s inherent open-ness. I am looking forces’ in this cloud and distils them as a set metaphoric stability is jettisoned, it must shed for aspects of practice that are irresolute, of strategies for future work. These inform its associations of solidity, homogeneity and Encountered here as a practicescape the smudged and potential, qualities that cross a sfumato practice that draws in an open stasis. Geologic signifiers of perpetual and modes capture shifts that are perceivable in a between drawing and building, and inflect way, investigating the active space between serial change are apprehended through the human lifetime, as opposed to the geological both. I suggest that this space of active drawing and building. This PhD contributes to research as harbingers of a likely near-future epochs by which most geomorphological crossing, between drawing and building, understandings of practice as research, as a landscape condition. Through modes of changes are registered. This augurs a research is where an architecture of open poiēsis is poiētic lens on what it draws, draws with and plotting, gleaning and fabricating, I explore terrain which is simultaneously horizontal, situated, where gestures, materiality and draws from. the mobility and flux of the land in relation to geologic and durational… space, in practice, coalesce as an open work. the geological agency of the body. This is a reflective project, drawing from over twenty five years of work, spanning from Mani Williams Friday 2 June, 10:00am - 12:00pm Robert Simeoni Friday 2 June, 10:00am - 12:00pm 19 Project Room 2, Level 2, Design Hub Ramp and Foyer, Level 1, Design Hub PhD (Architecture and Design) Examiners: Dr Christian Derix, tbc PhD (Architecture and Design) Examiners: Ms Valerie Austin, Dr Stephen Collier Chair: Dr Ross McLeod Chair: A/Prof Richard Black Supervisors: Prof Jane Burry, Prof Asha Rao Supervisors: Prof Leon van Schaik, Dr Graham Crist

Let’s Track! Strategies to establish active people tracking in workplaces Capturing: The language of Robert Simeoni

This research presents a user-centric The original contribution of my research is The intent of this study is the exploration and This inquiry into observed moments approach to establish active people tracking two-fold. Firstly, the people tracking system documentation of the relationship between takes on a further expansion through the in workplaces. and analytics I developed demonstrated observation and design. Through examination collected moments; candid photographs of the technical capability to provide real of the process within my practice, within architectural muses. A desire to show what With advanced tracking technologies time insights to workspace design, project my mind, the study attempts to delve into, I see, to understand my own language, to becoming accessible, more businesses and management and human resources and further elucidate the winding passage share the language, spoken over time, learnt organisations are tempted to experiment management applications. Secondly through from observed moment (‘catalogue’) to over time, through observation, the looking, with the new trend of people tracking for reference to my three case studies I argue realised design (building), and to just see, with seeing, to see, I have seen that somewhere management and planning purposes. Which that a user-centric approach is critical for greater clarity, that which lies beyond the once before, twice before, losing count, the system to use, what to do with the data and the successful integration and adaptation of observation. memories grow, captured, returned to, my how to get the staff on board are common people tracking systems and analytics into constant companions, returning to me when questions that the managements have little real world workplace practices. Expressed through a collection of images and needed. experience and precedence to look up. observations of spatial interventions that, at These questions point to fundamental issues first glance, may appear to be ad hoc and in adapting data-driven people analytics in unplanned, upon closer investigation exhibit a the workplace. My research addresses these complex and poetic realisation. questions with three targeted real world case studies. Jim Barbour Friday 2 June, 2:30pm - 4:30pm Cameron Bruhn Friday 2 June, 2:30pm - 4:30pm 21 SIAL Sound Studio, Level 1, Design Hub Foyer, Level 1, Design Hub PhD (Architecture and Design) Examiners: A/Prof Damian Candusso, Dr Jos Mulder PhD (Architecture and Design) Examiners: Ms Esther Anatolitis, Prof Nikos Papastergiadis Chair: Dr Ross McLeod Chair: A/Prof Pia Ednie-Brown Supervisors: A/Prof Lawrence Harvey, A/Prof Phil Samartzis Supervisors: Prof Leon van Schaik, Prof SueAnne Ware

Spatial Audio Engineering: Exploring Height in Acoustic Space The alter ego of editorial intelligence

Techniques for recording and reproducing an of my transition into spatial audio engineering This research follows the trajectory of The research reconsiders and reframes my immersive 3D audio experience are evolving was the integration of psycho-acoustic architecture, landscape architecture body of work providing evidence of the rapidly as new technologies and new delivery theories of spatial hearing into my focussed and interior design from 2003-2017. It mastery and the practice’s contribution platforms emerge for music recordings, sound listening. This practice-led research was documents my contribution to Australian to local and international knowledge in art installations, museum and gallery exhibits, listener focussed, constructing a unique 3D built environment writing, editing and architecture, landscape architecture and and immersive cinema formats. A creative loudspeaker array, developing innovative publishing, situating my practice as a site of interior design. practitioner in this field requires a broad techniques for spatial recording and innovation across disciplines and mediums. range of skills: spatial composition, creating establishing a repertoire of electronic and The key collaborators, critical tendencies unique sounds specifically intended for use acoustic spatialization techniques. The and organisational themes of the practice in a spatial sound work; spatial sound design, research identified height in acoustic space are understood through a horizontal and using existing sounds and manipulating them as critical to our discernment of sonic vertical dissection of my editorial approach into 3D acoustic space; and spatial recording, immersion. A series of spatial sound works within the matrix of publications, events and capturing the location and movement of are presented and analysed for the perceptual programs. The personification of the three sounds in space and the sonic identity of effectiveness of these spatialization editorial streams of the practice through three acoustic spaces. techniques, with particular attention paid to speculative titles reveals the alter ego of my the use of 3D space as an aesthetic parameter. editorial intelligence. As a lifelong passionate listener and professional audio engineer, the foundation Progress Reviews

June June2016 2017 Alisa Andrasek Tim Angus 25 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Paul Minifie and Marcelo Stamm Supervisors: Ross McLeod and Michael Trudgeon

High Resolution Architecture: Possible Futures Biomimetic Building Facades

It cannot be that axioms established by to absorb this acceleration in technology This PhD will research the genius of nature’s ensure $ commercial constructability. The argumentation should avail for the discovery is reaching critical threshold. Meanwhile, designs in order to inspire the design of PHD will also be developed/tested on real of new works, since the subtlety of nature is different planes involved in conception of innovative sustainable building facades. The world projects within Grimshaw Architects. greater many times over than the subtlety design and architecture (design, engineering, research is proposed to include studies of of argument. But axioms duly and orderly construction, material science and adjacent coral reefs and rainforests, both on a micro It is a key objective for the PHD to propose formed from particulars easily discover the tangents), are becoming increasingly and macro scale, to understand both the passive building solutions that target a $ cost way to new particulars, and thus render algorithmic. If design is algorithmic, it is performance of the individual elements neutral result, solutions that don’t cost more $ sciences active.* also open to automation. With imminent (micro_coral/trees), and, the collective than current practices, and do more with less emergence of AI and new cognition, performance (macro_reef/rainforest). like nature. It is envisaged that the primary Unprecedented increase in data and can there be an opening for radical output of the PHD would be an adjustable complexity within design and building enhancements in architectural ecology? Biomimicry is the key research mechanism passive facade screening system with technologies is exemplified by for instance Can superperformance result from boosted and I am training with the Biomimicry multiple functionality (for new and existing parametrization and generative processes. materialisation synthesis? Can architecture 3.8 organisation* to achieve qualification buildings), and, potentially a related output There has been a radical increase in quantity and its production be cognified? Can as a Biomimicry Professional. I will be for the grouping/siting of buildings (planning of choices, simultaneous to increasing creativity be exponential, and the unseen collaborating with Biologists and Naturalists regulations to achieve optimum outcomes). opacity of such design process to human emerge from the uncharted? in order to achieve a deep understanding cognition, eventually resulting in decreased of nature’s designs, along with industry to *https://biomimicry.net/ * Sir Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Book 1, quality… Finite capacity of human cognition Aphorism 24 Thomas Bailey Stephen Banham (RMIT School of Media and Communication) 27 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Media and Communication) Supervisors: Richard Black, Anna Johnson and Christine Phillips Supervisors: Brad Haylock and Harriet Edquist

BEING The Legible City: Cultural storytelling through a typographic lens

My research will collate, analyze and Together our research will form one thesis This research proposes a connection document projects from the practice of within which my individual contribution is between typographic storytelling and the room11 Architects. clear, whilst our ongoing collaboration is also understanding of typography’s broader apparent. cultural significance: How can uncommon Projects include built Residential, Commercial histories be expressed through a typographic and Urban Design works. lens?

These projects represent the output of a creative partnership with Megan Baynes (also from room11 Architects.

My research will eventually be bound together in alternate, chronologically ordered, chapters with Megan’s research. Michael Banney Roseanne Bartley 29 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Leon van Schaik and Michael Spooner Supervisors: Mick Douglas and Pia Ednie-Brown

anecdotal evidence Facilimaking the Accessory: strategies of co-creation within an expanded field of making

In winter 1995 I met with my supervisor, describe a personal history, a way of working Modernist jewellery tends to orient through and socially engaged practice (Helgra, Alys, Professor Leon van Schaik. I provided and a body of work……………... anthropocentric object-subject interactions, Thoms). New Materialism offers an alternate somewhat of a life storey, a long series of emphasising technical virtuosity and object- way to think through our complex relations anecdotes – all of those things that I thought based outcomes. Typically culture and nature to matter, while social and performative may have contained traces of my archi-DNA. are represented symbolically and function as practices allow the researcher to experience Leon listened……until the end, and then he ornaments, souvenirs or charms signifying these networks through the liveliness of their said ‘You do realise what you have just done?’ relationships to place, identity or belief doing. systems. This research attempts to unsettle I had crystalized an approach to architecture these conventions and explore possibilities Via a series of event-based projects, the work - a method of storey telling, of finding the for an alternate relational milieu for a socially is gathering momentum through attending storey in the first instance, often a storey engaged contemporary practice of jewellery. to the productive capacities of unsettling already written but not yet architecture. and the agile qualities of the accessory. Informed by New Materialist discourse Emergent within the research is a multivalent The meeting with Leon was a mark in time. (Bennett, Barrod, Harraway, Massumi) methodology of facilimaking: making the research intersects contemporary facilitated through situational, performative It was the moment we first discussed a PhD jewellery (Kunzli, Cohn, Perret), the expanded modes that reconsider bodily, spatial, constituting a series of anecdotes that are field of making (Hamilton, Oyama, Montero), temporal and material ‘intra-actions’. interesting, testable and concretizing, that performative objects (Orta, Walther, Mayling) Megan Baynes Simon Bold (University of Newcastle) 31 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture) Supervisors: Anna Johnson, Richard Black and Christine Phillips Supervisor: SueAnne Ware

BECOMING Recollections and reconciliations of processes

My research will collate, analyze and Together our research will form one thesis, The previous PRS was recollections of site: embrace the digital by restraining its flow. document architectural preoccupations of the within which my individual contribution sensing the subject, which is the space to be In this way, the alchemy of the dark room is practice of room11 Architects. Preoccupations is clear, whilst our ongoing, interrelated, represented in a final image. As I approach recreated by hybridising the analogue and include photographs, drawings, paintings, collaboration is also apparent. the mid candidature, I articulate an increased digital within the practice. writings, ruins, structures and infrastructures. understanding of what my practice is. This refusal opens up a fluidity of process and These projects represent the inputs to a I reflect on a reconciliation of all the elements has become the central focus of my research creative partnership with Thomas Bailey (also within the viewed space of my recent project. Reiterations of this process prompts from room11 Architects. research activities. A photographic is oftimes unlimited possibilities for further explorations weighed down by the demands of technical of composting and site visits. Also, this My research will eventually be bound together knowledge and equipment, and this burden slowed process instills two-folded viewing in alternate, chronologically ordered, chapters creates rigidity within the art form. However, as I oscillate from details to a final image, a with Thomas’s research. such rigidity does not preclude cracks forming distillation of non-linear practice. within the mode of practice; the new, the previously unseen appear. By acknowledging the cracks, I dismembered the prescribed techniques and use of equipment. I actively Timothy Burke (University of Newcastle) Alyssa Choat (University of Technology Sydney) 33 PhD (Architecture) PhD (Fashion and Textiles) Supervisors: Michael Chapman and SueAnne Ware Supervisors: Thea Brejzek and Lawrence Wallen

Gizmos + Ghosts: Exquisite Machines or Exquisite Drawings? Transitory Skins: New materialism and critical fashion performance

This PhD is conducted through experimental On the one hand the Exquisite Drawing Understanding matter and objects results in The critical fashion performance practice machine making that foregrounds analogue Machines that hop, spin, wobble, and get up a distance from it, a space in which several provides opportunities for exploring new methods in the speculation of architecture. to all sorts of mischief produce an imagined immaterial things emerge; language, values, materialist notions of agency, Cartesian This practice has emerged by playing the world of play, coming to life as spectacles and politics and meaning amongst others. This consideration of the inert world of objects surrealist game of the exquisite corpse with objects of desire. They invite a taxonomy into research seeks to collapse this distance and performance and movement as a fifteen spring-wound drawing machines. their nature to draw out better understand through critical fashion performance, perpetual difference. Performance is not a Pursuing what André Breton described as ‘the the machines themselves. On the other hand, to enable opportunities for overcoming system of change from one stable state to undirected play of thought,’ these machines their drawings produce artefacts for new signification of the subject and material. another but rather the very vitality of change; function in the temporal-spatial event of play experience that challenge drawing as an Critical fashion performance that blurs the a difference that does not spring from stable to allow the unexpected to occur. This has led automatic or tacit process. Here, the distinct boundaries between performance art and positions but keeps differentiating from itself. to other forms of play as the family of gizmos categories of making and drawing can be fashion has seen a rise in prevalence as This opens up encounters with the body that continue to grow. Curiously, these machines isolated, studied and re-assembled in order distinctions between disciplines continue use material, textiles and garments as edges misbehave, evoke sympathy, and consistently to explicate entanglements with physical to erode and the body further becomes and dialogical surfaces to examine material, surprise. methods of generation. central to creative practices. From here, new space and the subject in process. materialism offers a way of understanding the body and the relation to material objects, not at a distance but alive with the body. Gyungju Chyon Tanya Court 35 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Pia Ednie-Brown and Charles Anderson Supervisors: Richard Black, Michael Trudgeon and SueAnne Ware

Embodying Betweeness: designing lively artefacts through imperfection, Reconsidering the Civic impermanence and incompleteness

Embodying Betweeness investigates idea of the in-between is borrowed from This research has explored the theme of the This research has uncovered an approach in tendencies within the interactive field of the concepts of wabi-sabi and ma as a way civic in landscape architecture through over the work that seeks to maintain maintains a materials, environments and makers, and their to think through my creative practice. In 20 years of my hybrid practice as an artist and degree of open-endedness, creates certain latent value of making artefacts that feel alive. particular, imperfection, impermanence and landscape architect. It is work at the edge of deliberate effects and allows for a various incompleteness are tendencies of the in- the conventions of landscape architecture types of participation and engagement. Despite often appearing to be self-contained, between which are salient to understanding practice but importantly does not seek There is a reconsideration of the civic. The artefacts exist in dynamic, relational fields. the interactions between materials, outsider status. The work is politically and range of tools and tactics employed to do This research project began with an interest in environments and makers. Embodying these socially engaged believing that it is possible this that can be may be also of use to others. how things appear lively and how this might kinds of between-ness in artefacts may offer to aid evolving publics in the continuous This contribution is important for others connect with the ways in which they engage an approach to designing artefacts that reinvention of their own shared spaces. If whose ongoing suspicion, vigilance and fields of relationality. Approaching artefacts generate a sense of ‘aliveness’. If so, are there the civic no longer has the formal qualities redefinition mean the civic can and should and materials with a heightened sense of their communicable ways of approaching design or ceremonial programming of traditional never be pinned down, trapped or tamed by relationality, this design research explores practice to these ends? These questions are civic realms, what is it? If the civic is always the formalities of professional practice or the ecologies of interactions between materials, explored through projects working with a contested, how can the design response bureaucracy of contemporary administrative environments and maker, through a series wide variety of materials such as algae, fog, be open and keep open a dialogue with procedures in a rigid definition. of projects. To investigate the interactions sensors, ceramics, and textiles for current contexts? between materials and environments, the projects, and reflecting on past projects. Kristof Crolla Victoria Cullen 37 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Charles Anderson and Jane Burry Supervisors: Judith Glover and Areli Avendano

Kristof Crolla Service Design Approaches To Sexual Challenges Post Prostate Cancer Treatment

A strong dichotomy exists between the project design and delivery that incorporate Sexual wellbeing suffers after prostate cancer research approaches to re-design one agency digital tools bring to architectural materialisation idiosyncrasies at an early- treatment. This in turn negatively affects nurse led sexual wellbeing intervention. I design and the affordances given by stage. They are built-up from a limited quality of life, self esteem, relationships and will explore stakeholder mapping, journey many construction contexts. Especially in number of interdependent components mental health. Research implies that solutions mapping, user interviews and group developing building environments, common that are context-specifically optimised to this problem require a tailored intervention workshops to develop a re-design prototype. I implementation deviations challenge this for implementation. These components incorporating communication skill learning, aim to explore the implications of this project relationship. This PhD studies how harrowing are placed and communicate across a behaviour change, product adherence and for other psychological interventions to slippage from aleatory occurrences during hierarchy of scale and impact, enabling mindset shifting. Although these effects are translate into helpful scalable services. materialisation can be transformed into the emergence of larger-scale complexity. identified in numerous bio-psycho-social opportunity for non-standard project Through continuous feedback from rigorous studies, these study interventions are rarely realisation. The study is done through prototyping, the extensibility of component scalable or appropriate for ‘real world’ reflective practice on participatory action deviations is harnessed within the vibrant application. Human Centered Design is a research in a series of projects of increasing objectile, giving rigour and animus to the research methodology that puts users at the scale and complexity, built in volatile whole. Using projects focusing on the centre of a design process. I argue that this construction contexts. The argument is built friction between design and materialisation, perspective is appropriate for re-designing for working with protean design diagrams the study exposes how latent opportunities effective interventions into scalable services. or ‘vibrant objectiles’ that absorb serendipity for unconventional architectural design This research will employ service design in the project crystallisation process. realisation can be employed. Vibrant objectiles are procedural scripts for Norman Darwin John De Manincor 39 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Harriet Edquist, Judith Glover and Areli Avendano Supervisors: Martyn Hook and Richard Black

Early Automotive Design in Australia 1895-1953 SURFACE AND THE SPACES BETWEEN – an investigation into the role of surface in the conception, realisation, occupation and consumption of built form

The aim of this research is to reveal new development of standardised motor bodies, This research explores the role surface plays and experience. A key aim of the project is knowledge about one of the most significant variations and unique styles and impact of in the conception, realisation, occupation to document a methodology that celebrates Australian industries of the twentieth century, the World War II on design of an Australian and consumption of built form. Surface in the simultaneous processes of conceptual the automotive industry. In particular it car. The aim of the research is to reveal new the context of this project is considered to endeavour and technical resolution in design provides the first comprehensive account knowledge about one of the most significant be both the limit of material (technically and and the phenomena of occupation – each of the origins and early development of Australian industries of the twentieth century. tectonically) and the boundary of space. through the lens of surface. Australian vehicle design from the 1890s to Further, surface, whether defined or implied, the 1950s. Furthermore, by incorporating The outcome will be the first scholarly solid or screen, defines both performance automotive design into the broader field of account of early Australian automotive design Australian design history, it paves the way during its formative years. The research for the future development of this field of uncovers the names of Australian designers research. who have been neglected or are unknown, and it also sets out to discover unknown early Five periods of Australian automotive Australian automobiles. design are examined; the early designers, opportunities arising from a body embargo, design of post war Australian cars, John Doyle Nicholas Flatman (University of Newcastle) 41 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture) Supervisors: Vivian Mitsogianni and Roland Snooks Supervisor: Michael Chapman

Field Tactics: Cut Threads, Frayed Edges, Loose Fits and the Agency of Incom- Glitch pleteness in the Urban Field

This PHD explores concepts of the open- The PHD research has uncovered a series Breaking the spell of the interface, the glitch perceptions of space through subversion, ended in architecture. These ideas have been of design (formal) tropes including, but discloses aspects of machine operationally proposing a glitch(ed) way of living. This latent in both the architectural and urban not limited to, cut threads, frayed edges, (and disarray) not normally witness or practice, through its built work reveals the design work, and studio teaching, but have loose envelopes and other techniques that contemplated. In a similar manner, the affect of ‘adopting this ethos, and how been explored through various different challenge the singularity of the architectural glitch exposes our own operational activity; being exposed to glitches can change ones frameworks, guises and understandings. image, object or form; unravel established perception, regulation, and lifestyle. It is a perception of design. The metamorphosis of Underpinning this is an obsession with the figures/types. significant slip that marks a departure from an ones understanding, reading, and making of potential for architectural form to allow for expected result. The catalyst for this research space becomes the focus of the research. difference. Form is understood not only The ambition of these operations is to allow was an advanced computational workshop in terms of its appearance but through for fissures of unplanned amenity, and un- titled ‘Glitch(ism)’. By adopting the workshops the events it enables or prevents, with the programmed spaces and/or micro-public principles, ideas and attitudes this research architectural object, in particularly the gestures in an architectural project. explores glitch as a critical practice. These building envelope, as an understood an active ideas are tested through built work, that by agent in the urban field. comparison to a commercial architectural practice, establishes a conventional and regulated environment that glitch practices within. The research questions constructed Sophie Gaur (RMIT School of Media and Communication) Stuart Geddes (RMIT School of Media and Communication) 43 PhD (Media and Communication) PhD (Communication Design) Supervisors: Laurene Vaughan, Judith Glover and Neal Haslem Supervisors: Laurene Vaughan and Brad Haylock

ThingSpeak: Explicating the transcultural intersections of a design practice Making pages: the form of the book, as informed by collaboration, place, history, and the unconventional economies of publishing-as-practice

This research investigates the agents of visual how this may be negotiated in the Australian This practice-based PhD seeks to understand and one foot in the academy, this study stems design through the lens of the Transcultural context of a visual design practice. and make explicit and transferrable the from a dissatisfaction with or disconnection in practice. It seeks to identify the values influence and utility of a series of ideas, from the professional practice culture and and narratives that predicate the creation This research is conducted through a tactics and techniques that are central to discourse around graphic design in Australia. of objects. It also seeks to reveal culturally practice-led methodology. The practice is my practice. In these acts of discovery significant ideas that implicate, or pre- viewed as a triad of Professional, Creative and explication, this research also seeks to This work in progress presentation will determine modes of design thinking through and Teaching – with Research creating a transform my practice, or lead—rather than present current and forthcoming work for the semantic, visual and moral inheritances. tetrahedral platonic solid as a model. Ongoing follow—the ongoing transformation of it. study, in the lead up to the third milestone at By examining my cultural links with India projects explore how these directions are the end of this year. and Australia, the research looks at specific mediated as an ongoing cultural transaction. This practice comes out of the fields of drivers of practice and how these, besides The research aims to deliver a meaningful graphic design and publishing, but feels more the products of their action, hold meaning, understanding of how cultural confluences affinity with architecture, art and literature; as ways to ‘be’ in design. The research hold enduring significance in Design. at this point explores the ancient Indian and has little to do with the commercial aesthetic theory of Rasa and how it continues practice of graphic design. Coming from to express itself within the framework of a position of being a practitioner on the narrative and visual communication within fringe of the profession of graphic design in the Indian design context. It also explores Melbourne, with one foot in the profession Jock Gilbert Jeremy J. Ham 45 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Mauro Baracco and Peter Downton Supervisors: Lawrence Harvey, Malte Wagenfeld and Jules Moloney

Negotiating distance IMPROVISATIONS IN POLYRHYTHMIC SPATIALITY

This research pursues an enquiry into a range considered as a conceptual, philosophical This research is situated within an evolving ‘Digital DrumScapes’ compositions. of participatory and collaborative approaches situation embedded in disciplinary origins field of creative practice that is situated My creative practice then explores creative to inform design research practice in which parallels and is underpinned by the between the domains of music and spatial works in the domain of improvised Landscape Architecture. conceptual dichotomy championing the design. Through a generative process of polyrhythmic ‘DrumScapes’ to create vast rational which has informed Western thought mass improvisation on the digital drum electroacoustic spatial soundscapes. Using It explores techniques of negotiation (and the since the Enlightenment. kit, I have first sought to understand the the similar musical data sets, my creative issues around these) through which spaces ‘referent’ patterns and phrases that form the practice then explores the novel spatial might be opened in which participation The research seeks to establish a practice foundations of my own drum kit practice as design opportunities inherent in improvised and collaboration are facilitated through which operates more meaningfully within a means of understanding myself. Drawing digital drum-play as a generative tool for encounter and direct experience. this distance, seeking alternative ways on the tools, media and methods of spatial speculations in polyrhythmic spatiality. through which to negotiate it. As such, the design, a new 3D spatial drum notation has My intention is to bring these research My hunch has been that the discipline inquiry explores ways that landscape might been developed that offers novel insights into elements together into new ‘musico-spatial maintains a distance (or is remote) from it’s be understood as a medium in ways that are the polyrhythm, micro-timing and velocities design’ creative practice that explores the relationship with the medium. broadly transformative. that define my ‘style’. This 3D Spatial Drum possibilities of improvisations in polyrhythmic Notation has been applied to the analysis of spatiality in both music and spatial design I argue through this work that this distance the improvisational styles of other drummers contemporaneously. (or remoteness) might be more fruitfully and in the notation of my own drum-based Drew Heath (University of Newcastle) Tania Ivanka 47 PhD (Architecture) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisor: SueAnne Ware Supervisors: Soumitri Varadarajan and Toni Roberts

Production of Detail Applying systemic thinking principles in codesign for healthcare practice, to explore complex social relationships and redesign healthcare experiences

The architecture that I investigate is rich do you take in the phenomena of light and Through my research I am exploring the design games, and in the codesign phase in detail. The architecture that I do is detail site? How is it done in isolation and how is it application of systems/systemic thinking of developing new or improving existing based. The study of detail is something I have produced on site? ideas and principles to a codesign practice. innovations. isolated from practice. Primarily this will be applied to the healthcare The purpose of my work is to also enable context, but I will also investigate potential Service design offers a promise and potential I think of isolating detail into topic form. I see craft, to bring other stories of detail into a applications in my teaching and codesign to solve complex problems, yet leans a strange diversity of topics that range from building, to display creativity and to make a practice more broadly. towards linear, user-centred thinking and the acoustic to the reflective. A common building have a sense of humour. often lacks the multi perspective thinking thread is that there’s a story in what you see Healthcare and hospital contexts are socially that is needed to explore and understand beyond the nuts and bolts of a traditional Some details are touch, others hidden and complex and call for more complex thinking more complex situations. The application of perspective of detail. some aromatic. My study is to make a system tools. To help me think through how systems systemic thinking in design is an emerging of parameters that allows every connection or and systemic thinking principles might be body of practice. This exploration has value I wonder at this meaning of ‘detail driven’ or grouping of parts to be more than it is. applied or support thinking through the to other design practitioners tackling complex ‘the devil is in the detail’. different phases of the codesign process, problems through human-centred design I will adapt and trial various principles to methods and approaches. I always think that within any detail lies the a range of contexts, in both the problem DNA of a whole piece of work…..but how exploration space of design ethnography and Emma Jackson Mark Jacques 49 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Martyn Hook and Carey Lyon Supervisors: Vivian Mitsogianni and SueAnne Ware

Turn and Face the Strange String Figures

In biblical terms the desert represented a used as a design processes in the research. In our work, we are critical of the primary or new strategies for the design of urban space. place inhospitable to humans. It was a home The unassuming towns in the Pilbara that dominant modes of urban practice – the co- Here again, uncertain boundaries are the to Satan and wild creatures and if Jesus was await their civic promotions become ideal coordinating territorial master plan and what focus of work, but in this instance, they are present; angels. The writer Bruce Pascoe incubators to test a spectrum of imagined has become known as ‘tactical urbanism’ - the uncertain boundaries of discipline and remarks that ‘desert’ is a term Europeans futures about the Australian city. Design we’re interested in operations that are poised responsibility. Ambiguity has its own actions use to describe areas where they can’t grow opportunities lie dormant in the anxieties and between the two scales – the scale of the and behaviours and these have become a wheat and sheep. instability of isolation. precinct. Work on the scale of the precinct kind of operational shorthand. The continuing is necessarily complex, collaborative and interest in describing these behaviours builds The research is born out of various initiatives contingent. Authorship is often ambiguous on an observation that they are nimble design to grow populations outside of Australia’s and the role of the urban designer is never tools, they are generally scalable and that they main cities. Royalties for Regions in WA is one controlled by a scope line or pre-determined can be compounded. of those initiatives and aspires to grow viable deliverables. Our work in this realm is often cities in the Pilbara that are economically characterised not by what we’re asked to independent of mining. do, but by how we behave to effect change within the collaborative mode. There are tacit The cultural significance of the desert, the expectations in this behaviour, that when remoteness and volatility of the Pilbara are mapped and made operational, may suggest Sarah Jamieson Eduardo Kairuz 51 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Suzie Attiwill and Michael Trudgeon Supervisors: Michael Spooner and Gretchen Wilkins

Catseye Bay design Techniques Undisciplined: States of Matter

The title of this PhD is, ‘Catseye Bay design Key techniques will be selected and engaged My PhD is focused on the articulation of an present in the objects that the model Techniques’. It indicates the intention to in a research process that involves describing, undisciplined model of spatial practice. An observes, transforms, and creates. Now, the explore the how, rather than the what of a experimenting and valuing. The aim is to elastic framework from which to engage research has entered a phase of deliberate practice. I am interested to investigate, how a use the PhD to find support for the ways of with the problem of space, the model seeks practice-based interrogation, where projects practice knows what to do? And as the doing thinking and forms of knowledge that these to react — irreverently — to the challenges that subversively deal with politics through of a practice is its way of thinking, this enquiry techniques produce and to grow confidence and complexities of an unstable, ever- different states of matter are underway. A opens up the question; how does a practice in the techniques of this practice in order to mutating world. To do so, the research has discussion on the latter (matter) will be my think? see what it can do. been focused on examining what initially focus in this PRS. seemed to be a disparate accumulation of Catseye Bay is an emerging commercial When read backwards the title becomes, projects, unveiling surprisingly consistent practice. It creates a dynamic space in which ‘Techniques design Catseye Bay’. It draws processes, methods, and findings. Amongst to explore and experiment with design attention the generative function of a PhD them, the notions of elasticity, retrosynthesis techniques, as each new project demands in a young commercial practice, enabling and abjection have emerged — the first one multiple techniques be used, adapted and Catseye Bay to make a contribution to the referred to the mutating capacity of the developed. field through its ongoing activity. model, the second one to its instrumentality, and the third one to the recurrent quality

The Windsor-Tecumseh Tornado of 1946. Harry G. Garland, 1946. Christopher Kaltenbach Chuan Khoo 53 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Sand Helsel and Michael Trudgeon Supervisors: Soumitri Varadarajan and Heather Horst

INSECTUM: the sound of awakening Empathic Things & the Digital Ether: speculating calm relationships with electronic objects

This PhD explores the relationships between performance of care regimes. The research The age of computing is ever shifting towards interaction design of new electronic objects, insects and people as it pertains to the is positioned in Japan as it has a wide range ubiquitous, perpetual interactions with our how might these things tease out subtle, design of large and small artificial habitats. of precedents associated with insects. This digital selves and communities. Data becomes affective narratives? What can the role of It is my hunch that through a different context provides critical insight into ways of the currency through which our increasing empathy in human-computer interaction appreciation of insects, brought about by a enhancing and expanding our relationship diffusion with digital media is negotiated. bring to this conversation? better understanding of how we perceive to these animals. A suite of speculative and them and manage our proximity to them, that built design interventions/provocations, that In this landscape, my designed practice The wishy washy object (working title) is design strategies for alternative engagements include architectural installations, products is prompted by a phenomenological a speculative design typology that initiates with nature and environmentalism can and services, are in development. Within investigation of digital data. In particular, I my engagements with two notions: linking be created. One strategy envisions insect an urban context, how can design reframe seek to unpack the electronically-networked digital materiality with the design process terrariums and architectural installations that insects to create a different appreciation of object, refiguring the Internet of Things and for digitally-augmented electronic objects, house terrariums for purposes that include them so as to improve the engagement with exploring ‘slow data’ embodiment, narrative and possibly shifting the boundaries around biotechnology and food/product production, nature and environmentalism? and interactions through the lens of calm prevalent designer-owner relationships. as well as pets. These objects and structures computing and digital materialities. Between perpetual, attention-seeking digital seek to define a new public, multimodal experiences and periphery, Weiserian notions interface, developed through the creation This journey rediscovers human experience, of calm computing, what lies ahead with of an insect inspired aesthetic and the relationships and mappings between the electronic objects? analogue and digital worlds. Through the Chris Knapp Ronnie Lacham 55 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Paul Minifie and Graham Crist Supervisors: Scott Mitchell and Caroline Vains

BUILDING +/- Examining life as a Users manual influenced by the everyday Prototype as Practice

The PhD reflects upon a practice harnessing of production. This tactic is not motivated The research is inspired by the Japanese everyday experience, unspoken simpatico digital fabrication as a primary vehicle fundamentally by an affinity for craft (though idiom “Ishin-denshin”, which denotes a form and human phenomenon may lead to a new to expand the possibilities of design and craftsmanship is a key concern), but about of interpersonal communication through design typology to convey a style of “fifth construction, in an attempt to reconfigure developing a reservoir of tacit knowledge unspoken mutual understanding. The silent dimensional” communication and experience. the standard apparatus of architectural as facilitated by the advent of digital design understanding is generally recognized as a George Perec’s novel, Life A Users Manual enterprise and its resultant output of tools including parametric modelling software universal human phenomenon, as a passive focuses particular attention upon domestic buildings, objects, or processes while re- and CNC technology of various types. This form of shared tacit knowledge. artefacts that shape and influence our positioning the architect’s role as a hybrid approach privileges processes over things. This research argues that everyday (Ishin- experience of space. Perec portrays each of designer, fabricator, and constructor. Live feedback software models and physical denshin) experience invites designers to resident of each room circuitously and Characteristic of the practice is a method prototypes replace traditional forms of take a particular account of how objects and indirectly, through descriptions of the objects to continually test new variables using 1:1 representation in this practice, and the spaces occupy and facilitate our experiences. they own and the spaces they occupy. prototyping in a design feedback loop, and territory occupied by the architect expands. How objects not only serve to activate The PhD explores the possibilities of how to extend the logic of customised processes The result is the prototype of an emergent rooms and occupation, they also serve to objects and spaces generate an experience and material implications to a high level practice paradigm. radically remodel and re imagine/image the relevant to the design process as accumulated of resolution. Prototyping is conceived as space, offering ways to consider how one knowledge. Examining common proceedings tangible speculation, where questions are might design an experience for occupants as a response to knowledge acquisition raises explored through engaging in the physicality through the judicious study and design of questions such as: What is the user’s manual artefacts. This research project questions how that dictates our lives? Thierry Lacoste Michael Lavery 57 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Leon van Schaik and Anton James Supervisors: Vivian Mitsogianni and Michael Spooner

Emotional Desire engaging objects

With growing number of regulations, a name that capture its poetic concept. It Ideas and experiential qualities are embedded sandshoe, Captain Cook’s Endeavour, a desk sophisticated building techniques and is then developed as a transposition of the in everyday objects, waiting to be discovered, lamp, timber shuttered concrete, road trains, documenting softwares, architecture is traditional idea of a ‘parti’ that will dictate the connected and adapted. These projects The Tree of Knowledge, a large body of water increasingly technical. In addition, profitability design rules throughout the development of borrow engaging qualities from objects and a Pancho Guedes mural. The diversity dictates most design decisions. Projects are the project. associated with the conditions which of the objects is matched by the diversity of often described as a sum of components: surround the work. The objects adapted ideas and experiences embedded within them materials, sustainable features… In this As well as having my own practice for to the work by this process are labelled and the diversity of the project situations they context, architectural design is progressively the past 25 years, I have also run design the ‘object of desire’. The diversity of these form part of. ‘analytical’, missing the atmospheric quality of studios in various universities. Both activities ‘objects of desire’ includes: the Dunlop Volley the space. consciously leading to the same aim. Teaching has impelled me to question what is Our practice tries to celebrate this important in the design process and research disappearing holistic experience. The ways to encourage students to develop the resonance of a space through the eyes of an experiential side of architecture. amateur. Each project starts with a poetic idea expressed in the form of photographs, paintings, collages… The project is given

(Image. Detail of Pancho Guedes mural at the UQ Architecture School, ideas from which are adapted to the project outcome. Photography Brett Boardman.) Simon Lloyd Romaine Logere (RMIT School of Media and Communication) 59 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Media and Communication) Supervisors: Malte Wagenfeld and Judith Glover Supervisors: Neal Haslem and Fiona Peterson

The designer artisan dialogue: towards a new model of sustainable design Articulating the Liminal: Testing transdisciplinary research strategies practice

In the context of an expanding global The project seeks to re-establish tacit Multiple disciplinary approaches have how that informs the strategies it intends to manufacturing and design industry, cultural knowledge and typologies within been widely touted as the response to investigate through the research. uniformity threatens to homogenise our a contemporary design idiom through an address societal challenges identified as material world. Cultural artefacts become a exploration and exchange of design and ‘wicked problems’ (Rittel & Webber, 1973): The research project aims to run three key marker here. Their means of production material enquiries. Importantly it seeks to compound predicaments whose multiplicity discursive events which each examine are specific and different, drawing upon exemplify such established cultural typologies and complexity make a singular approach different research strategies. The first in this and responding to a defined cultural DNA. and materials as reflected within both their impossible. series, Wunderkammer, was held on the 28th However within our contemporary and environment and means of production and April at the Experience Design Centre (RMIT). connected world these culturally responsive more significantly within the use of such However, like the issues it seeks to address, It was run as a project-based forum using objects are dissolving in favour of a singular artefacts. research practices involving multiple inference patterns, association and metaphor set of universal artefacts devoid of any disciplinary realities is a complex and as mechanisms to reconsider the tensions regional significance. My research project contentious concept. in, and expression of, qualitative sociological seeks to investigate the rich cultural specificity data. The presentation will reflect on what of artefact production through a dialogue This presentation seeks to first define where emerged during that event, and what those between the artisan and the designer within its multiple disciplinary approach sits within developments could mean for the research. the domain of the production workshop. the territory of multi-, inter-, and trans- disciplinarity. This becomes a lens to examine Derren Lowe (University of Newcastle) Emma Luke 61 PhD (Architecture) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisor: SueAnne Ware Supervisors: Malte Wagenfeld and Judith Glover

DRAWING STORIES Cyber-craft: making, projection and distribution in the Post Digital Vernacular

In architectural practice I find a more Craft rooted in material knowledge, culture The rise of digital technology, data This practice led PHD research proposition nuanced, flexible or even subversive and context. visualization and distribution, ‘changes both will develop my knowledge and expertise as a methodology is required for both the things we make and how we use them’*. designer, practitioner, jeweller and academic. experimentation and documentation for My research interest informed by the tectonic This shifting design landscape highlights the Methodologically and theoretically this eventual production and fabrication of is an acknowledgement and affirmation opportunity for new symbiotic relationships research will investigate the areas of wearable architecture. The 'ninth art' and medium of that whilst the truth is something that is between the analogue, the digital and the technology, cyber-craft and the evolution of the comic and ink drawing - particularly the constructed and therefore overt, at other post digital practitioner travelling between making through the lenses of: social media, strip or splash of narratives and ideas I find times – it is more subversive and subtle. Not mediums to make and distribute their work. digital production and online distribution increasingly advantageous in convincing and a representational or scenographic pastime This new paradigm of the digitally augmented systems. This proposal aims to explore the conveying instruction, documentation and but rather a revelation in details and material hybridises the traditional maker into the perception of value in post-digital craft, and narrative holistically. ‘moments’. realm of cyber-craft. Do the illusive narratives the evolving role of the craft maker in the of digital artefacts have the capacity to techno-sphere. By exploratory investigation and literally These are the details, images and experiences evolve beyond the allied cycles of planned ‘drawing out’ to focus on the details rather that last in my architectural memory. obsolescence and fleeting augmented *Sennett, R, 2008, The Craftsman, Allen Lane, London. than the whole - I believe I simultaneously projections of identity? Can these products challenge or question the commodification, of blended virtual and physical origins or ‘the **Bridle, J, 2011, The New Aesthetic, viewed 14th mediocrity and loss of craft in architecture. new aesthetic’** contribute to lasting and April < http://jamesbridle.com/works/the-new- aesthetic> meaningful cultural narratives? Hamish Lyon Max Marschall 63 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Richard Blythe and Michael Trudgeon Supervisors: Charles Anderson, Jane Burry and Flora Salim

RISK – The Private life of Public Architecture Swarming: Micro-Flight Data Capture for Environmentally Informed Design

Contemporary architectural discourse is at a As a result, financiers and institutional This thesis tackles two current issues in with cameras, this project investigates how rare moment of inversion. Traditionally led investors stabilize the process by overlaying architectural and urban design. The first is to collect, analyse and visualize climatic from within the confines of universities or projects with the brutal cloak of risk a global trend of urbanisation resulting in data with a variety of UAV-mounted by the trajectory of propositional research, minimization. There is also a political unprecedented building booms throughout environmental sensors. current debate is now being driven by the dimension as the amalgam of government the world and the need for high-rise complex and ever more fluid relationship legislation and market economics buildings that interact efficiently with their By investigating the benefits of integrating between architectural practice and a reconfigures the politics of public and surroundings. The second is a growing and comprehending such data in early stage project’s formation. Even the conventional commercial architecture into a Faustian demand for environmentally informed, design, new tools and workflows are to be linearity of project procurement has relationship. Major infrastructure projects sustainable design. developed that leverage the advantages undergone a radical shift whereby design, require market capital to fund their core of micro-flight data capture with efficient documentation and construction can now programs but are caught between the The key to solving these problems is rich, processing, visualisation and dissemination occur in alternating sequences or even in egalitarian needs of the public good and the site-specific micro-climate data. Unmanned of data. The expected result is the possibility reverse. This allows propositions and ideas commercial demands of private interests. aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as a of creating time-varying, multi-dimensional to be generated simultaneously at different Where next? promising technology for data collection data maps for three-dimensional volumes due to their low material and operational of air, which can be queried and understood junctions of a project. The by-product is a costs, as well as their capability to reach by designers in a way that facilitates a greater complexity as to where a project’s risk previously inaccessible vantage points. While novel design approach which allows for actually lies. UAVs are still almost exclusively equipped environmentally informed decisions. Samuel Mcgilp Lucinda McLean 65 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Lawrence Harvey and David Forrest Supervisors: Mauro Baracco and Peter Downton

Agile Opera In Time: between observation and making

Digital iterations of live artworks allow small- between RMIT, Chamber Made Opera and Change through time is significant on the again in the one area has allowed for projects to-medium sized arts organisations and Federation Square. Mornington Peninsula and in Westernport that operate over time. independent artists to be more agile in the Bay. Daily tidal change creates a broad presentation of their works. A work that was Through this PhD, I will analyse and present intertidal zone and exposes an immense While there is a history of settlement here once a live performance could be displayed the findings of a series of digital experiments area of mudflats in low tide providing vital that has tried to control change, this work in a gallery setting, or released online to a that support artists to create digital iterations feeding grounds for local and migrating birds. finds delight in evolving with change and larger audience. In a context of diminution of of their live works. Seasonal change shifts the occupation of the inviting change. It shifts away from the arts funding in Australia, this agility opens up coastal towns and holiday houses from empty idea of architecture as something that is opportunities as well as creating a longer tail to full, from inside to outside. In addition complete to be visually consumed, towards in the life of a work. to these predictable, continuing, cyclical an architecture that is experienced over time change there is also more intermittent, less and through embedding in place. How can This creative practice research PhD explores predictable change. this approach further shift how we design and the hermeneutics of digital art with a think about outcomes of architecture? relationship to live performance, focusing on This place has been the ground for a body of forms that maintain the intimacy and spatial work undertaken over more than fifteen years relationships that are central to chamber of my practice, through projects and research, opera. It sits within an ARC linkage project practice and teaching. Working again and Brendan Meney (University of Newcastle) Ben Milbourne 67 PhD (Architecture) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: SueAnne Ware, Michael Chapman and Matthew Parnell Supervisors: Vivian Mitsogianni and Roland Snooks

UNEARTHING : Mutations: Discovering the knowledge implicit in designing remote Aboriginal living Experiments in typology, procedure and the instrumentality of recognition environments This PhD research explores the notion of role in guiding architectural resolution and A reflection on the creative practice of Ben in formal, programmatic & organizational Aboriginal ‘dwelling’ and draws out aspects of negotiating design outcomes. By looking at Milbourne, exploring a notion of context terms. In each scenario the exploration my approach to designing within this cultural three projects from my practice located in as the underlying systemic structures of an investigates how the transformed condition paradigm through existing built projects from Central Australia, I will explore the way this urban condition. Where the city is understood can remain recognisably related to its original my 20 years of practice. It aims to improve aspect of spatial intelligence emerges in my as an emergent system and ‘new’ constituent condition and effect greater resonance via techniques of mapping, evaluating, correlating own design practice both tacitly and explicitly. elements are not introduced as radical the instrumentality of recognition. Recurring and recording archival design data against My investigation seeks to debrief aspects of departures from existing situations, rather as interest in the work explores the translation of post occupancy evaluations (POE) of the built the elusive balance between ‘shelter’ within mutations of existing conditions. Experiments digital/analogue methods and the subsequent works, by exposing disjunctions between the imposed living environments and sustainable in typological deformation explore how oscillation between procedural and explicit original design intent and the adapted use desert livelihoods for remotely located existing base urban or architectural types design strategies. of the built environment. The uniqueness Aboriginal people. It includes observation can be ‘evolved’ via mutation, hybridisation of desert people’s spatial intelligence often of Aboriginal patterns of occupation and or grafting of these systems and forms in remains unspoken in the design process, considerations of remoteness and amenity response to new demands. Process and confining the consciousness of connections existing in these lived projects. generative based strategies explore this between architectural and cultural space notion of mutation in urban and architectural interaction. The traditional realities attached propositions, both to un-earth underlying to their lifestyle in this context plays a vital structures, and to implement mutation, Tal Mor Sinay Manuel Muehlbauer 69 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Quentin Stevens and Charles Anderson Supervisors: Marcelo Stamm, Andy Song and Jane Burry

Informal Memorials- exploring contemporary ways of unofficial commemoration Intelligent Control in Generative Design

The memorial is an object which reflects These take in consideration and respond to My research establishes a framework for and efficient use of computationally expansive and represents people as part of a society different variants: local needs, limitations and performance-based creative systems and simulation technology.Artificial intelligence or as individuals in a certain time in history. possibilities which are encountered along the explores novel approaches to increase is already changing the way buildings are As such, my interest in these objects is as of way. efficiency in designer interaction during designed and will transform the architecture, a scientist investigating a petri dish which generative design. This approach addresses engineering and construction industry in exhibit human culture. The focus on informal The exploration of the memorial realm is set the complexity of design requirements in the future. The provision of performance commemorative practices derives from their to provide a better understanding of the role respect to multiple performance criteria data early in the decision-making process distinctive but diverse visual and contextual of the creative practice vis-à-vis the varied during early design stages by using during architectural design increases design characteristics in an attempt to understand ‘clients’ of these objects, i.e. the mourners, the human-in-the-loop technology for design efficiency. A semi-automation of this people’s needs and practices in this realm. stakeholders, government agencies and of augmentation.During the conducted process allows the designer to navigate the course, the general public. research, design intuition is directly used design process, while benefiting from the This is a project based research consisting for the generation of computational design computational power for calculations trading of the design, planning and execution of solutions, a guidance procedure based on off quantitative criteria. The intelligent design a set of proposed projects which explores intelligent control is introduced and designer framework for interactive decision support possible forms of informal memorials. effort is minimized to reduce designer will enhance the capability of architectural fatigue. The presented technological solution designers to use multi-criteria optimisation enables interactive mass-customisation in processes in an intuitive interactive way. architecture, decision-support in early design Jason Parmington Anthony Parsons (University of Newcastle) 71 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture) Supervisors: Malte Wagenfeld and Ross McLeod Supervisors: SueAnne Ware and Michael Chapman

Products of Reflection Forgettable designing circumstantial light phenomena

This research project is concerned with their presumed extraneity, and treats these Through the mediums of drawings, models forms of architecture into both existing phenomena that dwell at the periphery of phenomena as objects of design. It confirms a and photographs of both realised and and new circumstances, using ‘forgotten’ consideration in the design of objects. The speculation that unrealized creative potential, hypothetical projects, this PHD aims to memories of a fond suburbia, such as the design of a domestic kitchen tap, will specify and alternative ways to conceptualize and investigate and reveal the spatial intelligence humble garden and verandah. its mechanism, its form, its polished chrome practice design, might be derived from and understanding of the architecture finish, but is unlikely to extend to the reflected attending to circumstantial effects. To pursue undertaken during the formative years of light-forms on a surface adjacent to the this, it examines and elaborates phenomena Sydney based architecture studio Savio sunlit tap. Similarly, the design of vehicle, will generated by the refraction and reflection of Parsons (with Gemma Savio). Typically set determine the contours of its panels, their light. entirely within the conditions of suburban colour palette, even the highlights along banality, generally devoid of any architecture, its length, but is unlikely to consider the the current works are an immediate response distortions of a reflected lamp-post in its duco. to this environment, attempting to insert These are circumstantial phenomena, which may elude consideration out of practical necessity, but perhaps also due to (pre) conceptions of what constitutes a designed object. The research momentarily sets-aside Megan Patty Olivia Pintos-Lopez 73 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Harriet Edquist and Laurene Vaughan Supervisors: Pia Ednie-Brown and Scott Mitchell

More than a catalogue: Publishing and the contemporary museum Tending to creative mutuality: Processes of commoning for collaborative practices

The museum as we know it is in a state of This research will interrogate the democracy This PhD uses the social, psychological the conditions for creative mutuality within flux; change can be seen across all areas of the museum and publishing as a vehicle processes people engage with when co-opted commercial space through three of traditional museum practice, including within this existing and changing institution. establishing Commons, to guide the main techniques; producing affective loops, exhibition programming, exhibition display, Through creative practice reflection, this production, negotiation and documentation systems for self-actualisation embedded communication strategies and the online research will look to successful publishing of collaborative, creative projects. When within collectivism and encouraging environment. This change is underpinned by models to ask; what can museum publishing forming or maintaining commons, a sense emergence. the renewed value contemporary museums learn from independent publishing? It will of mutuality motivates the return, rather have placed on audience engagement, and analyse institutional change and ask, how can than the extraction, of value to the shared By aligning collaborative practice with a recognition that audience engagement publishing leverage this change? How can resources. Creative mutuality within processes of commoning, the research measures have become key indicators of publishing become active rather than static in collaborative projects evolves both the modes attempts to produce new values for a successful museum. Museums have long the new museum? of producing work and the experience of the interrelating and creating together and histories of publishing practice, but how might people involved. within wider communities. This approach new forms of publishing create change in the proposes that creative mutuality can become museum environment and be significant acts Mutuality is a characteristic of commoning a formative and guiding principle for ‘making for the museum outside of the museum? and also a catalysis for the production works in common’. of collaborative and creative work. The diverse projects in this research construct Amaara Raheem Toby Reed 75 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Suzie Attiwill and Charles Anderson Supervisors: Marcelo Stamm and Michael Spooner

Speaking Dancer in-residence Architecture / black holes / feedback loops

At the start of my PhD (2015) I returned persona, rehearsals, repetitions of habitations. Buildings are like black holes within the urban our design actions are inserted into, like ‘home’ to Melbourne after fifteen years of She speaks to and from the open, iterative fabric, channelling us through to alternate space junk landing in the urban sprawl. The living in London. The last performance I made question: how is in-residence, here and now? visions of reality, helping create a universe buildings we design and build allow people to - Hestia – invoked the ancient Greek Goddess In time she will transmit modes of thinking consisting of multiple view-points or worlds. heighten their experience and awareness of of the hearth who presides over ‘home’ fires and doing that are inherently choreographic These worlds or realities are created by each their relation to reality. and the settlement of new colonies. The in contexts other than dance. individual’s perception of, and interaction work of my PhD is to re-think ideas of ‘home’, with, the physical environment. Architects I am attempting to analyse how I have ‘belonging’ and ‘identity’ in order to continue design buildings to fit into, or help manifest explored these ideas in some of the buildings making autobiographical performance the world as they see it, or as the possibility that I have designed. differently; to move away from a subject- of the world (or fragment of reality) they see centred point of view into a more relational could exist, or does exist, but is often hiddn. field so that ‘self’ is no longer perceived as a fixed body of ‘embodied knowledge’ but Each building becomes a mini reality-monad rather as series of coordinates continuously in this heterogeneous reality of multiple changing, and becoming. Speaking Dancer is shifting points of view, like a screen-vortex in the urban fabric. This is what we design and build, intentionally or not. This is the situation Rosie Scott Vanessa Sooprayen (University of Newcastle) 77 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture) Supervisors: Suzie Attiwill and Tarryn Handcock Supervisor: SueAnne Ware

Watercolour: interior painting and painting interiors Informal Public Space and Island Culture

This research explores the relations between arrangements, and through this production My PhD investigates the potential to develop One of the lenses through which I wish to watercolour and interior (responding to frames a new interior condition in public space strategies for Rodrigues Island analyse ‘Informal Public Space’ in Rodrigues an understanding of interior/interiority as watercolour on paper. Painting interiors through temporal and spatial project Island is through my own knowledge of a condition composed relationally from refers to the production and composition explorations. Currently, Public Space on the island, having been born and raised on qualities, properties and sensations) to see of interiors through painting (‘interiors’ Rodrigues Island is easily challenged by an Rodrigues Island. Being a Landscape Architect how watercolour can contribute to interior as framed by architecture, which is not influx of unplanned development and an is the second lens through which I wish to practice and interior design. Watercolour necessarily the inside of architecture), such as endeavour to become urbanised. Within the explore and test the relationship to between painting is explored as an act of framing, the application of paint and other mediums – past ten years the local identity of ‘Informal ‘Informal Public Space’ and urban activation. arranging sensations to compose interior including light and water – to surfaces. Public Space’ in Rodrigues Island is vanishing, conditions (producing interiority). stripping the local community of its public By understanding the sense of place and space. Rodriguan culture embraces outdoor temporal activation, I wish to develop a set Two specific modes of watercolour practice activities such as agriculture, markets and of rules to map ‘Informal Public Space’ and to are proposed, through which the research fishing. The occurrence of ‘Informal Public design the components that are favourable takes place: interior painting and painting Space’ is essential for these activities to take for the informality of local life to occur. interiors. Interior painting involves the place and is a barometer of the liveability on study of an interior through the observation the island. and painting of qualities, properties and

Rosie Scott, Photograph of Works in Progress: Colour Studies, Watercolour on Paper & Resene Paint Sample Cards, 2017. Simon Spain Ha Minh Hai Thai 79 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Soumitri Varadarajan and Julian Goddard Supervisors: Quentin Stevens, Judith Rogers and Iftekhar Ahmed

ARTIST: CITIZEN HANOI URBAN MORPHOLOGY: ITS IMPACTS ON THE ECONOMIC THE TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT OF CREATIVE SOCIAL PRACTICE OPPORTUNITIES OF HOUSEHOLDS

In this research, by reflecting on current and By mobilizing a broad range of artists and be employed to analyse the link between Urbanization has played an important role past personal socially focused art practices creative activists while referencing key ideas urban form and the distribution of economic in leading to the general economic success and through collaboration with local and from post-industrial activists, educators, opportunities for households of varying of Vietnam and in providing economic international communities, I will use various writers and artists, this research seeks to socio-economic statuses. The hypotheses opportunities to its citizens. However, these lenses to explore the transformational impact identify tools and approaches that will support are: (i) households of different socio- opportunities have neither been evenly of this type of socially engaged practice on rich and authentic transformative experiences economic backgrounds will follow distinctive distributed nor everyone can seize them. the individual (artist and participant), local and for artists, participants and communities. patterns of settlement; and (ii) the spatial Studies on urban economics in Hanoi, global communities, and on the artwork itself. characteristics of neighbourhoods, blocks, the capital city and a significant national By illustrating the transformational capacity buildings and individual dwellings have a economic generator, argue that there is of making, this study interrogates the place of significant impact on the opportunities for an emergence of the ‘winners’ and the the contemporary artist’s ability to embrace economic activity. Five areas in Hanoi with ‘losers’ in new economic environment. This critical responsibilities in reshaping our distinct morphological characteristics will situation has raised the question of ‘how are global society and will point to perspectives be studied to examine these hypotheses. economic opportunities distributed spatially and methodologies that support successful The research is expected to provide an in- in Hanoi’s urban form?’ and ‘what role does transformative social practice. depth understanding on socio-economic the urban form have in supporting home- performance of different urban morphologies based economic activities?’ To address these and housing typologies in Hanoi. questions, morphological approaches will

Image credit Elle Magazine, image by James Duong Willhemina Wahlin (Charles Sturt University) Paul Wakelam (Queensland University of Technology) 81 PhD (Creative Arts and Design - Graphic Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisor: Margaret Woodward Supervisors: Ian Weir and Philip Crowther

The Ligatures of Life: the designer’s role in difficult exhibitions Line in the Landscape

Willhemina’s research examines the role of social semiotics and multimodality (CHaSSMM the poem is testing the idea lifetimes behind them of testing and exploring communication design in the creation of Model) to support the interpretive processes the graphic is testing the idea the interplay between architectural object and ‘difficult knowledge’ exhibitions, that contain of exhibition design. The development of the dance is testing the idea the landscape. information on war, genocide, gender the CHaSSMM Model, will be discussed the drawing is testing the idea violence or contested histories. Designers focusing on typographic representations of the sound is testing the idea Analysis will be made of textual and spoken have a significant responsibility to the people’s testimonies of trauma across four the building is testing the idea accounts of their journeys over time, as increasingly diverse specialist teams that exhibitions with PROOF: Media for Social well as examination of the morphological create difficult exhibitions and the complex Justice: ‘Picturing Moral Courage: The This PhD proposes that by using an alternative and cultural unfolding of their actual work; stakeholders that they represent. Willhemina Rescuers’ (ArtWalk, Port Macquarie, NSW), methodology of looking through the lens essentially, their lines in the landscape. This argues that difficult exhibitions present unique ‘Unearthed: Stories of Courage in the Face of of poetry, graphics, performance, drawing, will form a new mode of critical interrogation challenges for designers, and approaching ‘Sexual Violence’ (New Delhi, India), ‘Broken?’ sound and building, I can reflect critically on of the relationship between architecture and them as multimodal, social semiotic resources (New York) and ‘Ferguson Voices: Disrupting the idea of the line in the landscape. site. that perform an ideological framework the Frame’ (Dayton, Ohio). Through these for visitors can be a valuable construct for case studies Willhemina demonstrates that This examination of selected practice will guiding each stage of a project, from planning designers have much to contribute to the be undertaken in view of the chronological through to evaluation. Willhemina has interpretive practice and literature within the development of three architects’ forms of developed a conceptual theoretical model field of difficult knowledge. exploration and expression. Each have whole that combines critical hermeneutics with

Image credit: Official opening of ‘Ferguson Voices: Disrupting the Frame’ at the University of Dayton. Photo courtesy of the The University of Dayton. Niki Wallace (University of South Australia) Simon Whibley 83 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Robert Crocker, Veronika Kelly and Jane Andrew Supervisors: Paul Minifie and Martyn Hook

Beyond making greener things: expanding the understanding of sustainability in Drifting in Place communication design practice Conceptual Aesthetics and Spatial Form

This research explores the problem of Discussions throughout this study consider This work examines design methodologies This work bears an optimism regarding unsustainability (environmental and social) the impact of economics and business that anchor the drifting spatiality associated architecture’s capacity to communicate arising from the tension between designers’ concerns on the viability of sustainability in with the experience of urban environments ideas, and notes its reliance on acts of its personal ethics and business considerations practice, however the focus of the study is within the discrete and fixed architectural occupation to do so. in design practice. It investigates methods on design’s response to matters of social and project. It contends that this ‘drifting in place’ that could expand the understanding of how environmental sustainability and how this actualises particular and complex relationships to practice using sustainability principles in could be influenced. This research continues between the imaginary, architectural and communication design in ways that extend to reflect on sustainability using Graham occupied spaces of a project. practice beyond making greener things. Haughton’s five principles of equity to foster a Reflections on interviews with designers holistic approach to sustainability. Through the presentation of architectural and design literature have established an projects, this work demonstrates how the understanding of the norms of contemporary discoveries that arise from an observational practice. These reflections are also design practice can be used to establish contributing to an analysis of the creative and a conceptual aesthetic, and how the economic viability of a design practice that arrangement of this aesthetic in a project only works with environmentally or socially can produce this spatial drift, at once both sustainable clients/projects. physical and imaginary. Eileen Zhang Leanne Zilka 85 PhD (Architecture and Design) PhD (Architecture and Design) Supervisors: Marieluise Jonas and Heike Rahmann Supervisors: Vivian Mitsogianni and Martyn Hook

Considering modularity as strategy in managing landscape design projects in Floppy Effects China Experimenting in the territory between fashion, textile design and architecture

In recent years, Chinese landscape firms My research explores how the idea of The focus of the PhD is architecture that non- architectural (floppy) materials. These seek to improve efficiency that is measured modularity could be applied in landscape looks to fashion and textiles for its concepts, explorations work towards strategies and by time and cost in design and construction architecture design, as well as the connection aesthetics, techniques and construction in techniques that express an understanding stage. To achieve this goal, they developed among conceptual thinking, physical form, the design and fabrication of objects and beyond appearance. The explorations grew a design strategy focusing on standardized and task structure. The modular design space. Investigating how diverse disciplines to full scale fabrications techniques and components that can be applied in strategy will be investigated, articulated and can be used to generate an architecture that material behaviours. The PhD is composed many projects and named this process defined through reflective practice in design travels from material scale to building scale I of two main projects; Glow, which includes ‘Modularization’. However, the concept of management, along with case studies and have looked at the ‘floppy’ as a condition that the reflections around the preliminary work ‘module’ and ‘modularity’ has been a well- literature. needs to be supported but not overwhelmed, done in practice and design studio teaching recognized concept in many other industries engaging in a discourse between architecture to learn from fashion and textile design and to address issues of complexity, uncertainty, and fashion/textiles. The differences are tested the resulting key project. And Pleat, which and diversity. These understandings may in order to create form, structure, pattern, and includes several projects that track the provide a strategy that has not yet been effect. development of creating an architectural articulated in the landscape industry and space that integrates form, structure, pattern, help solve the limitations and problems that The PhD begins with an exploration around and effect. Both sets of projects work to Chinese Landscape industry is facing. the spatial potential of single material establish a way of working and define the palettes that include architectural (sheet) and direction of the practice. June 2017 DAP_r 89

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