 under-construction
workshop
date: Oct. 22nd. 2005
time: 1:45 pm to 9:00pm
location: RMIT Building 50, Orr Street, Carlton
RECONSTRUCTION: about-face,
adaptation, alteration, born again, changeover, exchange,
flip-flop, flux, growth, innovation, metamorphosis,
metanoia, metasis, modification, novelty, passage, passing, permutation,
progress, qualification, reclamation, reconstruction,
reformation, regeneration, remodelling,
reorganization, resolution, resolving, reversal, switch,
transfiguration, transformation, translation, transmogrification, transmutation,
turning.
Roget's New Millennium(tm) Thesaurus, First Edition
(v 1.1.1)Copyright © 2005
brief:
AFP acknowledges the
many difficult issues regarding reconstruction, the most obvious one is what we
call emergency solutions - those quick responses to solve the immediate need for
shelter and services, which in poor countries most often become permanent
features, making well thought long term solutions very difficult. Though most of
our professional institutions will not be involved at this stage but in the
next, the reconstruction presents other issues for consideration. Central to any
discussion on reconstruction is the understanding that there is never a blank
canvas to work on - those tsunami affected areas and communities have history,
memories of their former cities, social and infrastructural needs to which we
can only positively respond by working with and for the local professionals and
affected communities. The issue of responsible and responsive assistance - not
tainted by advantage to Australian industries - is an important and highly
sensitive topic that needs thoughtful discussion.
The program of speakers, performers and exhibitors brought together a diverse
range of professionals, students and activists in the built environment
including architects, planners, urban designers, environmentalists, trade
unionists, international companies, artists, photographers, filmmakers, artists
and students from the Victorian College of the Arts and RMIT.
under-construction activities:
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| Stella,
Shelley, Beatriz, Su, Rachel, Anthony, Michael |
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| presentation by Azlan McLennan |
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| the band wouldn't stop, so we kept dancing till next day |
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exhibitions by Michael Chew and Alison Hogg |
Lushun, Agus... |
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| Michael, Tashi and Anthony |
thanks to everyone who contributed with food and the preparation!! |
presentations and panel discussions
image projections
photographic exhibitions
music
performance
temporary installations by:
Site RMIT public art
under-construction speakers:
Opening words:
here
Rochelle Woodley-Baker: RWB & Associates
presentation:
here
Esther Charlesworth: Architects Without Frontiers
topic:
"walking the talk- architecture, ethics and sustainability"
Robert Stent:
President, Royal Australian Institute of Architects Victoria
presentation:
here
SONA's Jennifer van den Bussche
(Deakin University) & Megan Worthington
(University of Melbourne)
abstract:
here
Azlan McLennan: Artist
presentation:
here
Michael Bull: Apprentice and Careers Officer for the CFMEU
abstract: here
Su Mellersh-Lucas: Architects for Peace
presentation:
here
Beatriz C. Maturana:
founding director of Architects for Peace
"Timor Leste's building code and Australian values".
Based on a paper written for the Journal "Estudos de Línguas e Culturas de Timor Leste". Dec 2005.
Paper: here
Matthew Bond:
Engineer, ex-OXFAM
topic:
"Respecting local capacity - Experiences in
Timor Leste"
important information for speakers:
please click here
under-construction topics:
Our world
Australia's engagement with the world
Australia's influence on the region through reconstruction - the good, the bad and the ugly
Global warming and natural disasters
Our country
The national culture - our way of life - is this sustainable?
Reconstructing a professional practice - a cross-disciplinary approach.
Our role in preventing human made disasters.
Our home
Our way of life/our values and natural disasters
Car cities and obecities - shaping a local urban culture
Future eating, McMansions and urban sprawl
RSVP with your name and number of people attending:
, thanks
under-construction contacts:
If you appreciate our work and its principles
and would like to see us organising more of these events, please consider a
financial contribution. Your support will be greatly appreciated and
acknowledged.
For enquires please contact:
Architects for Peace:
did you attend under-construction? we want to hear from you, please send us your name and write your comments at "under-construction" blog:
here
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 RMIT bld.50 is the studio- workshop of RMIT Public Art, who generously supports AFP.
Melway
Architects for Peace is pleased to acknowledge the support of our business members: Indyk
& Associates Architects, and Rice and Ewald Architects.
Also the support from the members who contributed with that bit extra: Tufan Chakir, Javiera Maturana and Sarah Paddick.
Thank you all.
on the
day: exhibits, films music and performances...
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Visual Art:
Michael Chew:
So, you always wanted to volunteer overseas…
Over the 2004/5 Summer, Michael Chew travelled to India and conducted basic photography classes with boys in a refuge, and girls in an education centre over a period of two and a half weeks.
He is exhibiting works of the children's and of his own.
Alison Hogg:
Alison will talk about Baxter pro-refugee demonstrations earlier in 2005, the role of the police and the demonstrators at Baxter, the role of the police and the state more generally in this current political climate, and relate it to some of the new laws that the government are trying to push through at the moment to silence dissent. She is also exhibiting her photography from the demonstration.
Alison's work is entitled "No Borders, No Nations"
Music:
Bohanna Ensemble:
Bohanna started as an ensemble put together by drummer Scott McKendrick
for a gig at the Victorian College of the Arts Open Day. Saxophonist
Simon Charles, Guitarist Kumar Shome and Bassist Jamie Barlow completed
the ensemble.
The band has transformed over time from the original idea of a funk band to a more improvisational groove band with rehearsals concentrating on using improvising to gather material for more form based pieces.
Performance:
Tashidawa Eyles:
Another story by Tashidawa: Tashidawa is a performance artist, she is currently studying
Art in Public Space at RMIT.
Her story begins in nth coast NSW in theatre, dance and printmaking and has taken her all over Australia.
She has worked in a variety of communities including top end and Central Australia, Indonesia and Vanuatu. She is by her own admission blessed to have such a story thus far.
Cast: Pei, Kevin, Karla, Tashidawa, Pip, Nikki
Film:
Susan Lee:
Desert
“Desert” arose from the struggles facing the Australian Middle-Eastern communities in 2001. During that dawn, when there was scarce understanding or media coverage of the Arab-Australian perspective, we decided to collaborate on a short film that symbolised the migrant aspirations through the eyes of a young boy as his family journeys towards a new country.
Lushun Tan:
Reverie Sans Frontiers (dreams without borders, 2004)
In his second digital animation work "Reverie Sans Frontiers" (Reverie without Borders) Lushun Tan depicts the politics, xenophobia, and economics of the refugee crisis as an abstract parallel dimension, a virtual world.
06:20 seconds - Animation / Documentary / Experimental
the film is on
DVD and VHS
more about Lushun's
work here
click on image to print a colour poster |
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2005
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