Research Events
2009
Plastic Futures.
The first year of this research involved this six month project, which occurred in two major phases, and involving a series of interrelated activities (seminar groups, intensive workshops, symposia and exhibition):
Plastic Futures 1: designing for change.
RMIT seminar with Masters of Architecture students, exploring futuring and plasticity.
March to May, 2009
Plastic Futures 2: emergence, adaptation and communities of tomorrow.
Intensive workshops at RMIT and SymbioticA leading to Plastic Futures exhibition for Victorian State of Design Festival, June/July 2009.
Melbourne Node of Society of Molecules (global exchange workshop organised by the Sense Lab, Montreal; Erin Manning and Brian Massumi)
The Flight to SeaStar 2059 – Parallax (Institute of Architects National Conference, with Estonian architect Veronika Valk)
Adaptation – SymbioticA (Lake Clifton, Western Australia)
SymbioticA Biotech Workshop – (RMIT University)
2010
Another Life – (Melbourne, Arakawa and Gins workshop with Dr Jondi Keane and Russell Hughes)
Hot + Hairy: biotopology and new architectural life
Creaturely Play Procedure – Wild Cards (Arakawa and Gins Conference, Guggenheim Museum, New York)
2011
Vitality Machines Workshop, April 12 – April 14th.
Residency at the office of Arakawa and Gins. May.
Research: Bioscleave residence + architectural models.
Participation in: Generating the Impossible event, (July 2011, Mekoos and Montreal, Quebec, Canada), organised by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi.
Workshop in Architecture and Vitality, Ptarmigan, Tallinn, Estonia, Nov 30 – Dec 4.