Monday May 30 – Saturday June 25
Presentations Friday June 3
Between the Lived and the Built : Foregrounding the User in Design for the Public Realm
Between the built and the lived there is a domain that presents the architect with a great deal of difficulty. It is a space characterized by difference and contrast: on the one side the architect, contractor and consultants and clients responsible for building. On the other, the messy reality of everyday life as experienced by all other people who are occupants and inhabitants of the spaces they construct in perpetuity. Whilst these two domains do collide, they remain fundamentally at odds because of the distance between the two.
How architecture might occupy this gap is the propositional framework for each design project undertaken as part of this PhD by Project. The PhD seeks to explore a demonstration of an expanded definition of architectural practice through the making of projects by the practices muf (London)and muf_aus (Melbourne). The Exhibition and Presentation for the PhD consists of a matrix of eleven projects undertaken by the practices which explore the alternate roles and personas played out, and the objects and things created.
