Continuously Under Construction 3 - Amphitheatre
The third in a series of three projects. The emphasis in on sustainability and the material is hay.
Continuously Under Construction 2 - a collaborative collective builds with Testing Grounds, These are the Projects We Do Together undertaken by Interior Design Students on their first day of university. In 2020 the students constructed an amphitheater from hay. The students explored hay as a construction material and then used it to create a public auditorium[i]. Queuing for lunch prepared by the tutors the students made friends quickly, gathering in the half-built auditorium to talk and eat, surrounded by the smell of warm hay. The ambition was for the stadium to become a gathering spot and host of a series of symposiums and discussions about the spaces of education (unfortunately cancelled due to Covid restrictions). The hay auditorium was used as temporary infrastructure at Testing Grounds then later it was recycled in community gardens for mulch.
A film of Continuously Under Construction 3 is available here and more information in the Testing Grounds Archive here
RMIT staff Olivia Hamilton / Andy Miller / Liz Lambrou / Kate Geck / Ying-Lan Dann/ Fotini Malivadini
The Projects / Testing Grounds team Joseph Norster / Millie Cattlin / Arie Rain Glorie / Trent Griffiths / Molly Braddon
Students: Aitken, Grayson/ Alahmari, Hadeel Mohammed/ Ao, Wenyun/ Apostoli, Angelique/ Argyris, Maria/ Bishop, Teah/ Bruggeman, Xavier/Budiono, Joan /Bui, Do Hieu Hau/ Cao, Yichun /Caroccia, Jessica /Castro, Ma Eryka /Chan, Belinda Meiyee /Chang, Ya-Fen /Chen, Idyll /Chen, Jiahui /Chen, Ke /Cheng, Kit Kwan /Chin, Ami Amanda Qian Hui /Chin, Serena /Chong, Pei Yin /Christodoulopoulos, Olivia /Collishaw, Kezia /Djojodiredjo, Carren /Dou, Hao /Eddyanto, Jasmine /Estrada, Trisha Mae /Evans, Imogen /Forizal, Nadira Feraintia /Fung, Zecily /Gao, Xin /Gong, Naiqi /Gong, Xiwen /Gosal, Jean /Greenwood, Lucy /Gui, Shijie /Gunawan, Erica /Guo, Hanwen /Guo, Jiahui /Harpur, Naomi /Hawkins, Amy/ Hider, Tess /Higgins, Tamsyn /Hogg, William /Hormachuelos, Nina /Hsiao, Angelie /Hsieh, Wei-Chen /Hu, Jieni /Hu, Kexin /Hu, Yu /Jayasekera, Harumi /Jiang, Quwen /Jin, Yiwen /Jirathitiwanitkun, Aurathai /Kaluarachchi, Sahan /Karlsson-Parra, Ellen /Kim, Jae Hong /Koutsivos, Anastasia /Kumar, Vrinda /Kun, Sopheabilly /Lai, Kai /Lam, Weng Tong/ Latina, Alessia/ Le, Sandy/ Zhan Qiao /Li, Jiantao /Li, Yinxuan /Lin, Chaohang /Liu, Xiao /Liu, Youcheng / Loo, Jia Myn /Luo, Yuting/ Lyew, Laerimie /Mahboobian, Rashin /Mara, Jye /McKinnell, Thomas /Meng, Xianzhen /Michaelides, Penelope/Misirlisoy, Olay/Murnane, Koby/ Nabeta, Lunna /Ng, Johnathan Ng/ Xing Nguyen/ Ngoc Linh/ Oktavia, Feransisca/ Pamudji, Emily/ Pg , Dk A'aliah/ Pointon, Kiarn/ Portaro, Ryley/ Portelli, Jaimee /Quai Hoi, Monisha/ Riquelme, Javiera /Ruivivar-Aererua, Gabriel /Sankar, Malavika /Sarmiento, Carissa /Saunders, Piper /Simonsen, Brianna /Skapetis, Amelia /Sloup, Sophie /Sozan-Coad, India /Sparrius, Pippi /Sreshthaputra, Angelina/ Stewart, Paris /Tan, Whei Yhe/ Tedja, Neysa/ Thewira, Janice/ Tilghman, Nathan/ Tingay, Emily/ Tran, Duong Gia Bao/ Tuon, Mollika /Veri, Natasha /Vogels, Tarryn /Wang, Huiying /Wang, Yishi /Wang, Yuhan /Williams, Lucy/ Williamson, Angus /Wong, Ho /Wu, Leo /Wu, Shu-Yu /Wu, Xiaoxuan /Xue, Haotian /Yang, Angela /Yu, Yating /Zhan, Shutong /Zhang, Hongye /Zhang, Yuhao/ Zhao, Lijin/ Zheng, Bowen/ Zhou, Ziqi
photography Emma Byrnes