TUESDAY NIGHTS. Lectures start at 6.30pm in SLQ Auditorium 1 (level 2).
Drinks at Togninis (downstairs at SLQ) from 5.45pm. State Library of Queensland, Cultural Centre, South Bank
Roger Wood
WOODMARSH
www.woodmarsh.com.au
Roger Wood and Randal Marsh have been in private practice since 1983 after extensive experience in architectural offices in Melbourne, and have been judged, nationally and internationally, as possessing great conceptual strength and clarity.
Contextual issues of locality and region are used as a foundation for ideas that bring bold and sculptural architecture to our communities. |
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22 July
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Alex Lotersztain
DERLOT
www.derlot.com
DESIGN IS A CHAMELEON
A genuine global nomad,
Lotersztain was born in
Argentina to Polish parents and
travelled extensively as a child.
Lotersztain works directly with
village communities in rural
Africa to develop commercially
viable design products that can
be made by local artisans,
utilising local materials, for
international export markets. |
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Philip Thalis
HILL THALIS
www.hillthalis.com.au
THE PUBLIC PROJECT -
ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY - Recent Hill Thalis projects. Philip Thalis, principal of Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, actively promotes the culture of architecture and city making, combining practice with teaching, research, publication and public lectures. |
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29 July |
Jim Gleeson
PLANC
www.planc.com.au
A RECIPE FOR COLLABORATIVE PUBLIC SPACE DEVELOPMENT AND ACTIVATION
Jim is an advocate for the use of new media in the community engagement process and developing new ways of engaging diverse groups in public space development and activation. Plan C is a collaboration of built environment and creative industries professionals who specialise in creating and activating amazing public spaces with the community. |
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Thierry Kandjee
TAKTYK
www.taktyk.net
Taktyk [Paris- Barcelona] develops works and investigations in the fields of landscape and urbanism TOPOTYPES: GROUND AS DESIGN MATERIAL
Current research focuses on landscape as urban strategy through manipulation of the
earth and the use of its resources. |
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5 August |
James Russell
JAMES RUSSELL
ARCHITECT
www.jamesrussellarchitect.com
A local Brisbane architect with a
small practice in Fortitude Valley, whose architecture allows one to interact with the environment and surrounding neighbourhood. A shelter can often be as simple as a roof to shield the summer sun or a wall to protect from winter winds. |
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Tim Black
BKK ARCHITECTS
www.b-k-k.com.au
Tim Black is a Director of BKK
Architects, a design-based
practice he co-founded in 2000.
BKK Architects’ strengths
are its highly adaptive design
methodology, culture of
inquiry and collaboration and
the diversity of its personnel,
interwoven within a fluid
organisational structure.
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12 August |
Glenn Bevan
INFINITY DESIGN
www.infinitydesign.com.au
Glenn has qualifications in both medical applied science and design technology. He established Infinity Design in 1997 as a product development company and has won numerous industrial design awards. |
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Susie Dimasi
MATERIAL BY PRODUCT
www.3deep.com.au
Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald are Material by Product and are tailors. MATERIAL BY PRODUCT design systems for making fashion, fashion experiences and ambiguous things. |
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19 August |
Beth Wilson
WILSON ARCHITECTS
www.wilsonarchitects.com.au
Wilson Architects off er an integrated architectural and landscape architectural service. Beth Wilson is the landscape director and has a long history in landscape design in Brisbane, spanning many styles and different approaches to public space. |
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Ian Weir
TRANSFORMATIVE
MAPPINGS
Ian is a multidisciplinary educator, practitioner and researcher in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, photography and cartography.
Ian will discuss his recently completed doctorate concerning architecture and biodiversity in the great southern region of WA relationships not only manifested within, but transformed through, the agency of mapping. |
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26 August |
Gini Lee
PROFESSOR LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTURE QUT
FOUR SCENARIOS AROUND THE PRACTICE OF NOTICING WHILE TRAVELLING
Gini enjoys travelling and researching the landscapes of remote arid places, but is getting to know more about subtropical
situations. |
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Keith Deverell
KEITH DEVERELL
www.keithdeverell.net
A multi-threaded designer and artist whose practice spans many disciplines from interaction design, system design, and
audio-visual performance and installation.
Relationships between computer system design, spatial design, and poetic representation of space, place, and movement.
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9 September |
Stephen Cameron
ARK
www.ark.net.au
ARCHITECTURE AND APPETITE - BRING A FORK
Stephen Cameron is principal of ARK atelier and frequent studio critic at both QUT and UQ.
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Marc Pascal
M2 PRODUCTS
www.marcpascal.com
Marc designs and produces ceramics and lighting which aim to enhance and energise the environments in which they are placed.
Hands on casting and dyeing in the studio, how the modular colouring system for eyoi yoi Xploff worvo Uleabe is made.
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23 September |
SPLINTER SOCIETY
www.splintersociety.com
We run a young architectural practise that tackles a broad range of projects with low budget being a common factor. Our aim is to create highly individual projects that give a little bit of personality and love back to their inhabitants and users. Manipulating architectural program is one tool we enjoy to play with to achieve this. |
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Rowan Opat
ROWAN OPAT ARCHITECTS
www.rowanopat.com
Founded in 1999 Rowan Opat Architects is a Melbourne based design practice.
For Rowan Opat Architects the unique design is born out of the context and purpose of each building.
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7 October |
Linda Marie Walker
LINDA MARIE WALKER
Dr Linda Marie Walker is a senior lecturer at the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture & Design, University of South Australia; Linda will speak about a particular writing practice that is spatial, and that scatters itself horizontally, as a way of working in relation to ‘land’ and ‘landscape’, and how other practices (music, visual art, dance are crucial to releasing writing and writing’s topics from the imperative to (per)form closure (perhaps writing is landscape). |
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Tanya Court
TANYA COURT
Tanya Court is a landscape architect, lecturer and artist. Her sculpture “Helmet”, in collaboration with Cassandra Chilton, is soon to open at the Heide Gallery in Melbourne. Her professional work includes award winning projects undertaken with Melbourne practice Paterson + Pettus (now EDAW) such as University Square, Melbourne. |
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14 October |
Craig Moursey
CMD DESIGN
www.cmd.net.au
CMD is an Industrial Design consultancy specialising in the design and development of
products.
CMD recently won the Standards Australia Australian Product of the Year Award for “Flake”, a snow device thattracks ski performance.
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Joanne Jackovich
JOANNE JAKOVICH
www.jakovich.net
An interactive architect and researcher specialising in interactive spaces spanning art, architecture and urbanism. Interactive technology pervades urban living; how architecture and urban design might reconfigure according to this potential is demonstrated through experimental and participatory design projects. |
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21 October
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Kirsten Bauer
ASPECT STUDIOS
www.aspect.net.au
Kirsten Bauer is a Urban Designer/Landscape Architect & Studio Director of ASPECT Studios Melbourne.
Her lecture concerns planning strategies for sprawl and global warming based around interactive urban design.
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