Building Movements

Building Movements was collaborative project led by Chris Cottrell, Scott Andrew Elliot, Pia Ednie Brown and myself. It was initially proposed as a questioning of the Design Hub at RMIT University through a series of exploratory projects that would involved PhD candidates from the architecture and design school, and upper level interior design and architecture students. As a teaching project we hoped to give students a first hand experience of the processes of researching through design and making. Working with the students also had the obvious benefit that we could realise a much larger scale work in a shorter time frame. The project occurred over three weeks; one week of preparation by us, then two intense weeks with the students culminating in an event that was open to the public. The students were involved all day for those two weeks, working in different groups on site and at various workshops.

Film avaiiable of Building Movements here

professional photography by Georgina Matherson. other photos by Olivia Hamilton

A paper by Pia Ednie-Brown on the Building Movements project was published as part of the Architectural Design Research Symposium proceedings for a symposium that occurred on 20-21 November 2014, held at the Venice Biennale.