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CV Vile Coal Contested States and the Architecture of the In-Between Buffer Fringe Festival eudoxia installation Future prototyping The Third State Gift to the city - Consume 1.2 Tongue drawer triplet drawer
Mitchell Ransome 3 Carroll St, North Melbourne. Vic. 3051 0432585676 mitchell.ransome@gmail.com
Education St Bernards College - Essendon Year 7 - 12 / 2007 - 2011 University of Melbourne - Parkville Bachelor of Environments Major in Architecture 2012 - 2014 Master of Architecture 2015 - 2017
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- Forms of Enchantment; Masters Thesis Co-Studio Leader, Semester 1. 2021 -Contested States: Master’s Thesis Co-Studio Leader, Semester 2, 2020 - Contested States; Masters of Architecture Skills Co-Studio Leader, Semester 1. 2020 - Forms of Enchantment; Masters of Architecture Co-Studio Leader, Semester 2. 2019 AutoCad - Intermediate - Technian at MSD FabLab. July 2016 - Present Revit - Intermediate Skilled in Laser Cutting, CNC, 3D Printing Rhino - Advanced - Foundations of Design: Representatin Tutor; Grasshopper - Intermediate 2018 - 2020 Sm2 Adobe Suite cc - Advanced - Digital Scanning Lead Cyprus. April. 2019 3D Printing - Advanced - Studio Water Tutor, Semester 2. 2017 Physical Modeling - Advanced - Studio Earth Tutor; Semester 1. 2018 Woodworking - Advanced - Studio Beta Tutor, Semester 1. 2019 Photography - Advanced Printmaking (Piezography/Press) - Intermediate - Ex-Lab Photo/Video, 2017 - Present - Fabrication Team Future Prototyping. 3/4 Axis CNC Router - Advanced March, 2020 3D Scanning (Laser/Image)- Advanced - Fabrication Team Eudoxia MSDx, 2019 - Fabrication Team for the Main Stage at Rainbow Serpent Festival. January, 2017 - Fabrication Team for Tectonic Grounds. February, 2016 - Established Photography Portfolio disposablemitch.org 2014 - Present
Exhibited/Published Work - Untitled: Buffer Zone photography series; Cyprus International Buffer Fringe Festival. 2019 - Contested States and the Architecture of the Referees In-Between, 3D scanning, Audio Visual and photographic series, in collaboration with Heather Mitcheltree; Cyprus International Scott Woods Buffer Fringe Festival. 2019 Architecture Fellow, - ACAHUCH - Afterlife Symposium. 3D scanning Melbourne School of Design. work presented and exhibited. 2019 Coordinator FoD:R, Faculty of - Inflection Journal - Contested States. 2020 Architecture, Building and Planning. - Agora Caumme International Conference scottwilliamwoods@gmail.com Presenter and Paper. 2020 0412 886 020 - Opposite to Good but Not Bad - Part 1. 2020 - Center for Contemporary Photography - Salon. 2021 - ACMI Best Video Award
Ravi Bessabava
Interests Photography / Film and Digital Drawing Etching / Dry-point Painting Woodworking
Digital Prototyping Co-ordinator, Swinburne University. Artist. Fabricator. emailravib@gmail.com 0402522350
Darcy Zelenko Architype/Prototype Studio Leader. ACD Co-Ordinator. Lead Technician, FabLab. darcy.z@unimelb.edu.au 0408051487
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Vile Coal This thesis investigated an alternative way to manifest trauma into space. It will contend with Lebbeus Woods’ ‘Free Space’ response to Sarajevo in his War and Architecture project where he injects a new spatial typology with in the wounds of the destroyed city. This thesis will employ a Zizekian/Hegelian scope to a non-objective trauma located in the Latrobe Valley, East Victoria; and will use critical historic moments to identify and understand the current trauma that is ensuing with in the Valley as a coming to terms and eventual exodus from the area.
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Contested States: Architecture of the In-Between In collaboration with Heather Mitcheltree Existing as a liminal realm the UN Buffer Zone between the North and South of Cyprus acts as a void space; one that has been reclaimed by time, an interstitial barrier that has remained constant since 1974. We have been given unprecedented access by the United Nations Peace Keeping forces that currently patrol and maintain the Buffer Zone, with this access we have creating a living digital archive using 3D scanning technology. At the moment the study has compiled nine different scan locations through-out the old city of Nicosia and the surrounding area, including buildings such as the old Nicosia Airport, the old US and French embassies as well as urban locations like Paphos Gate, all being either with-in or surrounding the Buffer Zone. The work has been used in MSD Masters design studios as well as being exhibited internationally as well as locally and has won the ACMI price for best video work at the CCP Salon 2021.
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International Buffer fringe festival In-collaboration with Heather Mitcheltree Contested States and the Architecture of the In-Between was an exhibition hosted within the United Nations Buffer Zone hosted by the International Buffer Fringe Festival. In-conjunction with Studio 34 at the Melbourne School of Design, and photographic and 3D scanning work created by Heather and myself. The exhibition presents unique architectural constructions by students and liminal re-imaginings of the Buffer Zone.
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fodr: eudoxia msdx The exhibition of Eudoxia c. 1300 is a physical interpretation of a student project for the Foundations of Design undergraduate course at the Melbourne School of Design. The project explores the delicate instability of Eudoxia and brings structure to the city as it ceases. Design by Michael Mack and Scott Woods Documentation and Fabrication by Darcy Zelenko, Danny Ngo and Mitchell Ransome Photographs taken by Kim Vo
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Future Prototyping I was a part of the 2020 Future Prototyping Exhibition at the Melbourne School of Design, this was a part of the 2020 Melbourne Design week. I played a key role in the building and co-ordination of the setup of the structure of the exhibition and the exhibited projects. Photographs taken by James Rafferty
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Every year the Nendaz Alphorn competition happens, the resonance of the Swiss Alphorns is heard all throughout the Alps. Re-awakening the sentinels that roam the range. They are invigorated by the sounds from the festival and start building tower like labyrinths of salt, deposited all over the natural landscape acting upon the traditional herding paths of old. An architecture born out of sound.
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Gift to the city - Consume
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A Gift to the City, interrogates a series of museums, a curator’s design agenda and an artist’s work. When congealed these ideologies are then applied into a space that explores how to exhibit the artwork and integrate the curator’s thesis into the spatial conditioning. Below is the deconstruction of Oscar Niemeyer’s Sao Paulo Biennial. Consume 1.2 expands on the interrogation of the museums and builds upon the city or world that encompasses them. It explores a Zizekian dystopia/utopia, a corporation city, where the human brain is used to power the city, where a citizen’s needs are met through consumption, but only through standardised consumables. A commentary on today’s architectural discipline.
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Tongue Drawer The Tongue Drawer was solely motivated by having a drawer mechanism that would come be a surprise to the user. Following this design path a range of different mechanisms were produced and explored with the tambour system being the most elegant to fabricate. When the tambour front is pulled up over the interior drawer slides out in one motion producing the desired two-in-one surprise action. The Tongue Drawer is made from Tasmanian Blackwood, Brushbox and Copper.
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Triplet Drawer The Triplet drawer is a more functional extension of the Tongue drawer. The drawer aims to deconstruct and expose it in its bare elements being, the drawers themselves, their housing, and the structural frame. Reducing a bedside table to its elemental qualities further brings a lightness into a space that it inhabits, the drawers do not feel heavy like a foundational element in the space. The drawer face furthers the soft bend of the copper tube and breaks from the utilitarian aesthetic of the other timber elements, this has been designed to draw the eye out and highlight the handle. Further the face of the drawer has been designed to utilise CNC machining to produce something simple and elegant that would otherwise be difficult to produce by traditional hand woodworking techniques. The Triplet Drawer is made from Tasmanian Blackwood, Brushbox and Copper.
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