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RMIT ARCHITECTURE ELECTIVES SEMESTER 2, 2016 – Bachelor and Masters
Tutor Name
Elective Title
Day / Time
Location
Jack May
Air Apparent
Tues 5.30‐8.30
8.7.153
Roland Snooks and Cameron Newnham
Autonomous Formation
100.8.longroom
Graham Crist and Ian Nazareth
Eco Urban Practices ‐ Road to Nowhere(Intensive)
Tues 12.00‐3.00 weeks 1‐6 Tues 1.30‐5.30
Design Hub – room to be emailed
Peter Brew
Degrees of Difficulty
Wed 9.30‐12.30
45.1.5
Leanne Zilka
Pleated
Wed 9.30‐12.30
8.12.43 + 45 workshop
Cameron Newnham
Delusions of Grandeur (Bachelor Only)
Thurs 1.30‐4.30
100.7.02
Gennaro Postiglione, Lorenzo Bini
The Victorian Street Study (Intensive)
19th – 26th Sept
45.1.3
Amy Muir
Structuring It
Thurs. 9.30‐12.30
8.12.42
John Cherrey
Architecture as Furniture
Thurs 9.30‐12.30
8.07.79
John Doyle
Access All Ages
Thurs 9.30‐12.30
8.12.38
Christine Phillips
Victorian Modern
8.11.51
Conrad Hamann and Ian Nazareth
Urbanism: History Theory (intensive)
Fri 11.30 – 1.30 Weeks 7‐12 Thurs 11.30‐2.30
Quan Tran
Cinematic
Thurs 5.30‐8.30
8.7.49
Tom Kovac
Venice Elective (Intensive)
Travelling ‐ 14th – 27th November
Ben Akerman
Melbourne Fringe Condition
Thurs 5.30‐8.30
Emma Jackson
Practice Research Elective
Briefing session 19th July 2pm Pavilion 2 Design Hub
Jan Van Schaik
Writing and Concepts
Thurs 4.00
Design hub level 3 lecture room
Vicky Lam
Block Party
Thurs 9.30‐12.30
8.12.39
Bernadette Zajd
Ready Made
Thurs 6.15‐9.15
100.7.2‐3
45.1.5
8.11.51
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2 2 7 7structures 6 8 CasO L LAfter E aCperiod T I Vof research, E “First posited in the 1960s, the idea of pneumatic the elective will operate as a design a progressive and lightweight alternative to ‘normalʼ construction
has renewed relevance to the current reedesign valuation energy use Summary: This elective will focus on the andofconstruction and forms of structure climaticallytoresponsive envelopes.” of anew pneumatic accommodate different activities and negotiate different thermal conditions. We will examine
-the Willextent Mclean, Review standards can be applied to to Architectural which passivhaus pnuematic structures and investigate ways of creating insulation
Elective summary: and thermal mass suited to pneumatic environments. This is a design/build elective, which will focus on the design and
construction of the a pneumatic structure to accommodate different From weeks 3-7 elective will operate as a competition between activities and negotiate different thermal conditions. Students will four teams with submissions being judged on a range of criteria
competition between three teams. The winning submission
will be constructed by the class from and weeks At theA Designs will be limited to five details five10-12. materials. end of semester will individual folios documentation set,students as part of thesubmit competition submission
documenting work. will be limited the to 1 semester’s x A3 sheet. The intention is to investigate how the application of rules during the design phase can
Schedule (commencing 2, Tuesday July 26): increase the efficiency ofWeek construction documentation. Week 2–5
Readings & research
Week 4-9 Competition phase Timeline: Week Week 10-12 Fabrication 1-3 Research & readings Week 3-7
Competition phase
develop a repetoire knowledge through research into passivhaus including material of efficiency, mitigation of heat transfer, comfort standards, heat transfer and thermal mass, which will be used and durability.
Jack Tuesday | 5:30pm | Room 8.7.153 WeekMay 7-12 | Fabrication Open to Bachelor and Masters students
thermally efficient. Throughwill thisbe process, the elective establish a The winning submission constructed by thewill class. position on whether pneumatic structures could be more pervasively
Jack is an |architect and member RMITMay | 153.7.8 Wednesdays | 4:30pmof- 227768, 7:30pm a collective which designs and constructs performative apparatuses of
deployed to solve problems related to disaster relief or facilitate
different formats. Jack was educated at RMIT and ETSAB
pop-up environments for recreational or cultural use.
and has worked for Edmond & Corrigan, Room 11 and Lyons.
to explore ways in which pneumatic structures could become more
AUTONOMOUS FORMATION DESIGN AND REAL-TIME ROBOTICS ROLAND SNOOKS & CAM NEWNHAM This elective will explore the relationship of material and algorithmic behavior and their interaction through real-time robotics. This course is primarily concerned with the design implications of robotics rather than their application to fabrication. An autonomous feedback loop will be developed where the robot will respond directly to formation of material, without a predetermined design or model. This process situates robotics and vision systems as the interface between digital and material behavior. This process will explore the generative capacity of volatile materials in creating geometries that are a hybrid of material and algorithmic tendencies. The focus of the course will be the design of a series of experimental material prototypes, rather than fabrication or tool building. This elective will assume a reasonable knowledge of Grasshopper and a willingness to engage with new digital, robotic and material techniques.
Tuesday 12 pm- 3pm, Level 8 Design Hub (Long Room)
Bachelors and Masters Elective- Wednesday 9.30-12.30 PETER BREW
degrees of DIFFICULTY Who has not put down a book in annoyance or tossed one in disgust, to then read it without putting it down. Reading is not nearly as straightforward as its made out to be, we skip words, repeat sentences, miss pages and search for words in a box full of them, We are compromised by reading, we are just as likely to be emboldened as insulted or diminished. we encounter difficulty; we experience doubt, and on occasion we give up. To look at books as repositories of knowledge says nothing of the experience of reading, after all it is not our knowledge of doubt but the feeling of doubt that causes books to shut and be returned to the shelf. And it is not what we know about anger but anger that causes a book to be thrown aside. Is it ironic then that the feeling of doubt is a prerequisite to understanding the modern text ? . “I am a thinking (conscious) thing, that is, a being who doubts, affirms, denies, knows a few objects, and is ignorant of many- (“cogito” dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum—res cogitans) Rene Descartes’ 1641 That the very sensation that causes the book to be returned to the shelf is all that we needed to realise its purpose. It followed from Descartes that modern philosophy is the phenomenology of reading, The” I “who doubts; the reader, who mouths the words, is the instrument of knowing that recognises truth. From Descartes truth is not known but experienced; the experience of the reader reading. This project will carefully read a number of primary texts from Philosophy, Aesthetics and Architecture. A reflection on each weeks reading will be the basis of a journal, This will be collated and submitted for assessment at the conclusion of the semester. Text to be exerts from; 1 M Tafuri; Humanism Technical Knowledge and Rhetoric; The debate in renascence Venice. 2 Rousseau; The Social Contract (Foucault commentary) 3Gombrich from Perfernce for the primitive 4 J von Goethe – On German Architecture (commentary by J Pevsner, E H Gombrich and VonMuke and Purdy et el) 5 Alois Riegl; The Modern Cult of Monuments . 6 Wilhelm Worringer; Abstraction and Empathy. 7 Walter Benjamin; On translation. The storyteller. 8 Hegel Notes on aesthetics 9 Roland Bathe; Mythologies . 10 Foucault; What is an Author- (Giorgio Agambon The Author as Geasture) 11 Kuhn; The structure of Scientific Revolutions .Agambon What is a paradigm 12 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari – What is Philosophy 13 Elizebeth Groz The thing 14 Agambon from The signiture of all things
“What matter who’s speaking, someone said what matter who’s speaking” Samuel Beckett – texts for nothing
Empathy (Einfuhlung): ... How the body in responding to certain stimuli in dream objectifies itself in spatial forms - and with this also the soul - into the form of the object. Robert Vischer On the optical sense of Form a Contribution to Aesthetics Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we have been profoundly influenced for a considerable time (since before birth) by our relationship to other individuals who have complicated histories, and are members of a society which has an infinitely more complicated and longer history than they do (and are members of it at a particular time and place in that history); and by the time we are able to make conscious choices we are already making use of categories in a language which has reached a particular degree of development through the lives of countless generations of human beings before us. . . . We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong -
karl Popper
The plant contemplates water, earth, nitrogen, carbon, chlorides and sulphates, and it contracts them in order to acquire its own concept and fill itself with it (enjoyment). The concept is a habit acquired by contemplating the elements from which we come……p 106 Gilles Delueze and Felix Guattari What is philosophy
Paul Valéry wrote in a very remote context. “Artistic observation”, he says in reflections on a woman artist whose work consisted in the silk embroidery of figures, “can attain an almost mystical depth. The objects on which it falls lose their names. Light and shade form very particular systems, present very individual questions which depend upon no knowledge and are derived from no practice, but get their existence and value exclusively from a certain accord of the soul, the eye, and the hand of someone who was born to perceive them and evoke them in his own inner self.”
Aristotle briefly defended them in his fragmentary Poetics. In particular, Aristotle defended the arts from Plato’s charge that they are cognitively useless, trading in mere images of particulars rather than universal truths, by arguing that it is precisely the arts, or at least poetry, that deliver universal truths in a readily graspable form, unlike, for example, history, which deals merely with particular facts (Aristotle, Poetics, chapter 9, 1451a37–1451b10).
SEMESTER 2 2016
IAN NAZARETH GRAHAM CRIST
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE / MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN WEEKS: 1-6 TUESDAY 2:30 - 5:30 LOCATION: RMIT DESIGN HUB
ROAD TO NOWHERE
GOING NOWHERE SUMMIT 22.07.2016 1.30 - 5.30PM RMIT DESIGN HUB Discussion of sustainable cities and the metropolis generally is obsessed with transport and density. Mobility is so often a measure of both liveability and productivity. Density is viewed as both a measure of desirable consolidation of the city, and a threat to its liveability. The perception of density and the liveability of a dense city is relative to the amount we move around in it; similarly, our carbon footprint in a city is strongly correlated to the amount of transport we use in it. Sprawling and reducing density generally expands our dependency on transport The relationship between these two is complicated though; Melbourne is developing a model of a very dense core made from towers full of cars; Reyner Banham paradoxically suggested Los Angeles is an ideal model for a pedestrian metropolis. There a number of ways we might consider reducing the mobility within a city; redistributing the jobs and the infrastructure; capitalising on smart networks like Uber, and increasing our use of virtual services. How can we stay still to make the city more dynamic and more sustainable?
The Going Nowhere Summit is part of the Road to Nowhere design research elective in the Eco Urban Practices series. A series of speakers will consider and introduce this thematic as the seminar tests this through design experiments in metropolitan Melbourne. Eco-Urban Practices introduces you to the key skills, methods and practices of the urban design professional from a multidisciplinary perspective, and with a particular focus on environmental sustainability. The relationship between urban design and global pressures of population and climate change is a key focus, as well as urban shifts in infrastructure, technology and transport. You will explore the implications of these issues on urban design processes, projects and practices, while acquiring insight from industry and government professionals, following the sustainability paradigm. We will view design practice from a global perspective, with an equal emphasis on the local. This elective will also investigate precedents, utopias, theories and manifestos in order to understand the multiple scales and networks within the city.
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DELUSIONS of GRANDEUR VIRTUAL REALITY FOR DESIGN TUTOR: CAMERON NEWNHAM 2016 SEMESTER 2 BACHELOR ELECTIVE THURSDAY 1:30PM | DESIGN HUB 100.07.002 Virtual Reality (VR) is being adopted in architectural practice for visualising design, convincing clients and demonstration purposes. In contrast, this elective will explore how VR can be used as a tool in the design process, and how different modes of operating can change the way we think about design. You will be asked to develop your own views on how VR will affect society and architecture, and develop a skillset which reinforces your position. Potential avenues for exploration include: - How VR visualisation can inform the design process (beyond convincing clients) - How sketching and modelling in 3D/VR will change the forms we design - How the design of virtual space differs from the physical, what rules can be ignored and what must be adhered to. We will use the Unreal Engine with the HTC Vive (VR kit) to create a series of basic applications that allow us to experience the models you create, as well as exploring the rapidly-increasing set of utilities such as Google’s Tilt Brush (3D sketching) and VRTX (3D polygonal modelling). Prerequisites: - Basic 3D modelling skills - Enrolled in Bachelor of Architectural Design Notes: - Access to a personal laptop is ideal but not compulsory - New VR technology allows you to physically walk around in virtual space. If you are extremely prone to motion sickness this class may not be for you. Queries: cameron.newnham@rmit.edu.au
RMIT ARCHITECTURE - DESIGN ELECTIVE MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE SEMESTER 1, 2016 19-26 SEPT
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departing point of the workshop will be a thorough survey of the Architecture of Victoria Street. The long East-West straight stretch seems to be a founding mark for the entire urban structure of Melbourne as well as an exemplary cutaway of its social and historical pattern. The study of this significant fragment of the City should enable us to think out architectural design proposals that might be - regardless of their scale, typology or program - in tune with the future transformation of the capital of the state of Victoria.
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Lorenzo Bini [binocle.it] is a Milanese and Milan-based practicing architect - Gennaro Postiglione [lablog.org.uk] is a full professor at POLIMI in Milan
Alcuin Library– Marcel Breuer, 1964
The role of structure in architecture is self-evident. However this elective will review the role of structure in defining a formal response in the generation of architectural expression and the crafting of interior spaces. The revealing of structure in order to define space. In the review of the role of structure, the elective will also focus on the single use of material to define floor, wall, structure. Each week students will be researching and reviewing particular precedents. The review of these precedents will be researched initially through various mediums and then through drawing. The weekly tasks will be presented each class and discussed. These will then be collated as a carefully considered research portfolio at the conclusion of the semester.
Elective
S2 2016
Thursday 9.30AM-12.30PM
Open to Bachelor of Architecture and Masters Students AMY MUIR
STRUCTURING IT
Mies is famously quotated as saying, “ a chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier” And so in designing and making furniture there are many analogies with designing and making architecture. In this elective you will explore some of these challenges. During the semester, there will be three projects, each with a different focus, material, systems, and production. Lecturer : John Cherrey Location Level 7 workshop - 8.07.79 Times: Thursday 1.30 - 4.30 Elective is suited to both Bachelors and Masters level students Assessment: folio of works & succinct journal Note: for exchnage students, your work will be designed to be ‘flat pack’ to enable you to take or send it home
Architecture as Furniture
Architectural history is overflowing with examples of architects who have designed furniture. It is difficult to think about Mies van der Rohe and not picture the Barcelona chair, or Le Corbusion and his LC4 chaise or Reitveld and his Zig Zag chair; the list goes on and on with work by Elene Gray, the Eames, Gio Ponti, Bellini, Gehry.........
AC CESS AL L AGES This elective will focus on the design of mixed use and residential precinct developments for occupation by people of all ages and abilities. Currently residential development focuses on a very narrow section of the market – primarily on investors and first buyers, prioritising small studio, one and two bedroom apartments, along with public and urban spaces that are designed and programmed to accommodate a limited range of programmes & functional activations that conform to perceptions of the lifestyle associated with this group. Practically speaking this means the default approach to residential intensification in Australia is the heavy provision of apartments, with a mixture of commercial tenancies that are ill defined, but generally intended as cafes, convenience retail, restaurants, supermarkets etc. The result of this has been a large number of residential developments that are severely compromised in terms of their public space, with tenancies often lying empty and unused for years. Given the pressing need to densify our cities, and house a population that is not only expanding, but aging rapidly, it seems that the solution to provision of vibrant urban precincts is in engaging with the full range of activities and experiences that people undertake at different stages of life. Rather than providing a mono-culture, the solution lies in providing spatial and functional difference that provides the broadest possible appeal to people of all ages. This class will be a research elective working with external partners – Mártires Doyle Architects, The Space Agency, Macroplan and the d__lab. We will be researching people’s behavioural patterns, modes of occupation and expectations with a view to developing a programmatic matrix for the design of residential precincts. We will be investigating precedents of spatial flexibility & open building that allow developments to maximise potential uses. We will be developing ‘modelling’ techniques for speculating and projecting possible occupation outcomes for a project. We will be compiling this information into a series of graphic presentations that could potentially inform a live project in Melbourne’s Fisherman’s Bend growth area. The elective requires no specific skills, however graphic skills in Indesign & Illustrator would help, along with some understanding of Grasshopper or other generative platforms. It may involve some partnered work. Please keep in mind it is a research elective in which the school is working with external partners and the outcome is unclear. Students joining the elective will be asked for approval for their work to be used in external publication (with full credit). Tutor: John Doyle Time: Thursday Mornings Partners:
2016 Edition Victorian Modern 2016 What would Robin Boyd’s Victoria Modern look like if it were written today and you were the author? This elective will examine Robin Boyd’s 1947 Victorian Modern book and speculate what a 2016 edition might look like. In the original edition, Boyd examined Victoria’s architecture from 1836-1947 and put forward the notion there was a type of architecture that was specific to Melbourne and Victoria. Can we propose a similar notion today? What is Victorian architecture today? The elective is focused on architectural critique and targeted at those who have an interest in Melbourne contemporary architectural practice. You will be asked to reflect on Melbourne’s architecture from 20002016. As a class, we will begin by
unpacking Boyd’s own version and work towards indivudally producing your own Victorian Modern 2016 edition in book format that will combine your own photographs and commentary. Are there any common design themes you can identify that are particular to Melbourne. How can we frame MCR’s work in relation to ARM’s? How is the work of Breathe positioned against Peter Elliot, John Wardle or Kerstin Thompson? You will be required to go out and look at contemporary Melbourne architecture and as a class build up a bank of visual and textual material that you can draw on to produce your own Victorian Modern.
What you will learn: Skills in architectural critique, writing and media, developing your own voice, a better understanding of Melbourne’s contemporary architecture and how to present this in a book format.
Masters Elective, Semester 2, 2016 Fridays 11:30am - 1.30pm in 8.11.51 This elective will be run by Christine Phillips, radio broadcaster, architect,
writer and architectural critic www.openhaus.org
CONRAD HAMANN IAN NAZARETH
Image Credit: Construction of the set of Metropolis, 1927 - Film Architecture: From Metropolis to Blade Runner
SEMESTER 2 2016 MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE / MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN WEEKS: 7-12 LECTURES: THURSDAYS 11:30 - 14:30, LOCATION: 45.1.005C TUTORIALS: WEEKS 9-12 DETAILS TBC
Urbanism: History and Theory introduces you to the key ideas, precedents and theoretical discourse in urban design, both current and historical. It provides a critical understanding of the discipline and an intellectual framework through which you can establish a position on future urban design practice. Seminal texts, key practitioners, exemplary projects and speculative proposals are curated to highlight critical issues in urbanism historically and currently. These issues include: design process and urban morphology; economic and political frameworks; technological, industrial and infrastructural development; and socio-political policies in design. Course content provides you with a comprehensive overview of urban design practice and a detailed understanding of the mechanisms producing and affecting urban space. Examples from local and international contexts are presented.
elective:Cinematic
tutor: Quan Tran. website: www.quantran.net time/day:Thurs. 5:30pm-8:30pm lab: 8.7.49 open to masters and bachelors students
This elective will experiment with representing architecture through film. Students will use digital visual effects and film making tools to create a short film of up to 1 minute. You will develop storyboards, pitch, shoot and edit your short film throughout the semester.
You will be taught visual effects techniques: - digital compositing, keying, & rotoscoping. - animation of elements using keyframing, - 2.5d compositing / camera projection mapping. - multipass 3d lighting and rendering techniques. - colour grading / LUTs Software used: - After Effects - Premiere Pro - Photoshop.
ELECTIVE VENICE [ELECTIVE]...................................................................................................................... Tutor: Tom Kovac (RMIT Architecture & Urban Design), Brent Allpress (RMIT Architecture & Urban Design), Jose Alfano (University of Melbourne), Dario Trabucca (IUAV University of Venice) Proposed timeline: 14 November – 27 November 2016 TBC Travelling to: Venice, Italy
......................................................................................................................................................... Description: The 100YC elective is a collaborative workshop between RMIT Architecture and IUAV University of Venice (http:// www.iuav.it/). The workshop will be held at IUAV campus in Venice. What should be the future urban models and settlements? Will they be new “eternal cities” as Rome or not? There are signals, spread worldwide, which hint at a possible alternative and a different kind of development/approach to the topic? Perhaps, do the decayed alpine resorts, the deserted worker villages and other abandoned cities represent warning bells that future designers should be able to read and interpret? Civita di Bagnoreggio, a small village considered among the most beautiful in Italy and, at the same time, known as “the dying city” counts as little as 11 inhabitants. The worker villages built and now empty, left to decay and vandalism, because they are no longer needed. Ghost cities affected by unexpected events (nuclear explosions, bombing and natural disasters) remain as a warning of past human tragedies. Even great economic developments (the depletion of the automotive industry and the consequent depopulation of Detroit) are further examples of the volatility of modern cities. After a deep analysis of the past and present, can young designers identify a concrete strategy and then propose a more conscious interpretation of the contemporary reality and of the near future? Some representatives of the history already undertook similar routes, proposing urban settlement (small and large scale) as light and changeable solutions, able to react to historical, social and economic events. From geodesic domes to vertical structures, from suspended cities to floating settlements, so wide is the range of the experiments made in the past, considered at the time as utopian and imaginative ideas but that now, maybe, might find some deep motivation and form of application.
100YC - The 100YC project will launch a creative project titled REPORTING FROM THE VIRTUAL FRONT as a new sustainable blueprint for architectures future evolution. The project will focus on the Malaysian Pavilion as a foresight driven multidisciplinary project inviting visionary ideas as part of the Malaysia Biennial 100YC (100 Year City) project. It aims to create future visions for the Malaysia Biennial with the ambition to create a starting point in presenting and showcasing a response of creative culture and technology, discourse and evolution of Architectural intelligence. Malaysia Pavilion Biennial proposes both extreme speculation and pragmatic creativity addressing the physical, virtual and the nascent space exploration with promise, and foresight of becoming a focal space in the 21st century with a visionary 100YC reality. The workshop will be an intensive four-week in which students will design a series of design propositions for a future Malaysian Pavilion in Venice. The workshop will specifically investigate the challenges of ‘Pavilions,’ how we can model the future of cultural production and how global disruption and its economies impact upon urban and architectural production to envision the potential for massive change, and accommodate these eventualities through design thinking. This work directly contributes to problems facing global cities and transition from industrial economies and climate change. As part of the project students will investigate the future of cultural production and visit key Venice locations and the Venice Biennale exhibitions, countries pavilions and discuss key influences throughout history, which shapes the future of pavilion and emergent forms of cultural production. Working in mixed teams of students from both University IUAV di Venezia and RMIT universities, students will develop a proposition for the Malaysia Pavilion, as a mid and long term speculation.
......................................................................................................................................................... RMIT Support: Students can apply for RMIT Student Mobility Grants see: http://www1.rmit.edu.au/scholarships/mobility Scholarship: The Fender Katsalidis Travel Award in Architecture will be made available to the elective students Maximum number of students: 14 Information session will be held on: July 2016 – Date TBC Contact: Tom Kovac (tom.kovac@rmit.edu.au)
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“In my imagination I would like to think that the Half-time Club Collection would be found in a three drawer Brownbuilt filing cabinet, in a storeroom beyond a room that had a pie warmer and sink, next to a water heater – the natural habitat for abandoned projects. In no particular order : videos, tapes, agendas, notes, minutes and the like, a collection that, by and large, records meetings, discussions and events in Melbourne convened under its banner from 1978 to 2005.” HALFTIME CLUB halftime Club Collection (1978–2005) Peter Brew
This elective, coordinated by Ben Akerman, will involve students investigating specified EVENTS considered seminal in the development of MELBOURNE ARCHITECTURE. Students will SEEK to LOCATE these events amongst the POLITICAL, social, cultural $ ECONOMIC currents of the TIMES. Students will be interviewing KEY FIGURES from the OLD GUARD, the MID GUARD + NEW GUARD to find the TRUTH. Students will be developing their abilities in GRAPHIC communication & FORMATTING TECHNIQUES (both RESEARCH & OPINION) pieces. Students will co-curate an INFORMAL lecture series & host a re-staging of a POTENTIALLY GENUINE, LOCAL attempt at engaging in CULTURE!
Thursdays 5:30 - 8:30 Start: 21st July Room: 8.11.51
Meanjin, Vol. 40, No. 1, Apr 1981
If it was so good why did it end? Well, I’m probably not the one to comment here. We might have hung on too long. It ran its course, the world changed.
Evenings 5:30 - 8:30 21st July
writing & concepts READING, DISCUSSING AND REVIEWING THE WORKS OF RENOWNED MELBOURNE ARTISTS AND WRITERS AS THEY UNPACK THE PROCESS OF WRITING UNDERPINNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPTS IN THEIR WORK
WRITING & CONCEPTS is designed to explore the potential of
Students enrolled in this subject will:
writing as both a process and an outcome. It aims to promote
- review each lecture and associated reading,
writing as a tool of reflection and inquiry and open up the
- discuss, edit, develop their reviews and re-write them,and
complex relationship between the process of writing and the
- develop two reviews to be included in hard-copy publication
development of social, political and philosophical questions
alongside written pieces by each of the speakers.
within contemporary cultural practice. Speakers for WRITING & CONCEPTS are, in order of The subject is structured around eleven public lectures by
appearance: Helen Grogan, Pia Ednie-Brown, Tom Nicholson,
practitioners for whom the written form is their primary
Callum Morton, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Helen Johnson, Francis
professional output and also practitioners whose work
Plagne, Emile Zile, Lou Hubbard, Nella Themelios, Ricarda
manifests as exhibitions or events within the domain of design
Bigolin, AND Nikos Papastergiadis.
and contemporary art. There will be a mandatory weekly reading list of works by the
For speaker details and recordings of previous talks, please visit:
speakers, which will be discussed in each tutorial and part of
www.writingandconcepts.com.au
the study of the process of writing.
WHEN:
THURSDAYS, 4:00 PM
WHERE:
RMIT DESIGN HUB L3 LECTURE THEATRE
TUTOR:
DR JAN VAN SCHAIK
Dr Jan van Schaik is a registered architect, a lecturer and researcher at RMIT University, and a director of MvS Architects Please visit mvsarchitects.com.au for more information.
READY MADE BERNADETTE ZAJD
BACHELOR AND MASTERS ELECTIVE
“...I AM AN OPPORTUNIST. I’LL TAKE MATERIALS AROUND ME, MATERIALS ON MY TABLE, AND WORK WITH THEM AS I’M SEARCHING FOR AN IDEA THAT WORKS.” FRANK GEHRY
STARTING WITH THE NOTION THAT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO DESIGN IS ALREADY THERE, THIS ELECTIVE WILL RUN AS A SERIES OF SMALL, SITE-SPECIFIC DESIGN EXERCISES. EACH EXERCISE WILL CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING - A SPECIFIC MELBOURNE SUBURB OR SIGNIFICANT SITE AND A SIMPLE PROJECT BRIEF. YOU WILL EXPERIMENT WITH FORMS, IDEAS, COLOURS, PATTERNS AND MATERIALS DERIVED FROM THOUGHTFUL AND CONSIDERED OBSERVATION OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS. THE PROJECTS WILL RANGE IN SCALE AND SCOPE, FROM A LETTERBOX TO AN AMENTIES BLOCK. BECAUSE OF THE SCALE AND SPEED OF THE EXERCISES, YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPROACH EACH EXERCISE WITHOUTHOLDING BACK! THIS ELECTIVE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP THE SKILLS TO THINK QUICK AND WORK QUICK. WE WILL TEST, DEVELOP AND REFINE THE DESIGN STRATEGIES IN A RANGE OF CONTEXTS OVER THE SEMESTER. THE FINAL OUTCOME WILL BE A FOLIO OF EXPERIMENTS.
TIME: FIRST CLASS: LOCATION: CONTACT:
THURSDAYS 6.15PM 21 JULY 2016 DESIGN HUB 100.7.2-3 berniezajd@gmail.com