2009 EVENTS Architecture+Philosophy has presented an inspiring diversity of thinkers, makers, collaborators and speakers across 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. In 2009 the series took a short break, presenting:
[top] School
of Architecture and Design, RMIT University present:
6:00pm
Thursday 19 November, 2009 Form is central to how we comprehend experience, yet there has been little attention paid to the role form plays in purposeful thought and designing. How formative thought generates identity, meaning, and closure to facilitate recall, the communication of information, and interaction with the external world will be suggested. The situated reflective nature of the interpretation, synthesis, and expression of form and how inputs from different sources are blended and compressed to a human scale will be outlined. A new approach to form that is more appropriate to how the mind works is proposed. An agency capable of interpreting and expressing percepts, meanings, messages and other artifacts is described. The central role of form in cognition, interactive media, and communication is explained. DR CHARLES BURNETTE (USA) specialises in design management, design systems, ecological design, sustainability and construction and transport (see www.idesignthinking.com). Formerly Dean, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin, Director of the Graduate Program in Industrial Design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, and Chairman of its Industrial Design Department. Burnette was a consultant on the practical arts to the groundbreaking Edison Project; twice a juror for the IDEA awards; he served for 10 years on the International Advisory Board, University of Art and Design UIAH, Helsinki; he has been a frequent speaker in European design schools and at the European Union’s Cumulus Program on Design Education; and he is widely published on topics such as design management, design systems, ecological design and design education. He has led workshops and studios in Canada, Finland, Taiwan, Sweden, Germany and Slovenia and chaired several conferences. He is now writing a book about the design model, its foundations in cognitive science and its application. [top] URBAN INTERIOR and ARCHITECTURE+PHILOSOPHY present:
PROFESSOR JANE RENDELL BA (Hons), Dip Arch, MSc, PhD, is Director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett, UCL. An architectural designer and historian, art critic and writer, her work has explored various interdisciplinary intersections: feminist theory and architectural history, fine art and architectural design, autobiographical writing and criticism. She is author of Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism (forthcoming 2009), Art and Architecture (2006), The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002) and co-editor of Pattern (2007), Critical Architecture (2007), Spatial Imagination (2005), The Unknown City (2001), Intersections (2000), Gender Space Architecture (1999) and Strangely Familiar (1995). She is on the Editorial Board for ARQ (Architectural Research Quarterly), Haecceity, The Happy Hypocrite, The Issues and the Journal of Visual Culture in Britain, a member of the AHRC Peer Review College (2004–2008) and chair of the RIBA President’s Awards for Research (2005–2007). In 2006 she was a research fellow at CRASSH (Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) at the University of Cambridge and received an honorary degree from the University College of the Creative Arts, and in 2008 she was awarded Research Leave from the AHRC to complete her site-writing book. She has been
invited to write about artists such as Jananne Al Ani, Daniel Arsham,
Bik Van Der Pol, Nathan Coley, Janet Hodgson, Jane Prophet, Tracey
Moffatt, Adriana Verajao, Richard Wentworth, and the Estonian Pipe
Line project exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2008.
Her talks and texts have been commissioned by galleries, for example,
the Baltic, Gallerie Emmanuel Perotin, the Hayward, the Kunstmuseet
Koge Skitsesamling, Kunstmuseum Thon, the Serpentine, the Tate,
the Wapping Project and the Whitechapel. {UI}
URBAN INTERIOR Urban
Interior is part of the Customising
Space research stream at the Design
Research Institute in the School
of Architecture and Design at RMIT University. It receives funding
from the Design Research Institute and the School’s Research
Committee. UI members: Suzie Attiwill ¦ Kate Church ¦
Mick Douglas ¦ Michael Fowler ¦ Robyn Healy ¦
Rochus Urban Hinkel ¦ Roger Kemp ¦ Mick Peel ¦
Malte Wagenfeld ¦
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