Silences on Maps Exhibition
Silences on Maps is an exhibition that reveals the hidden facets of Brisbane City.
Generally, maps are considered visual records of specific historical moments in the city. However, they have often excluded and erased groups, identities, and social issues that are not aligned with the creators of these maps.
Geographer J.B. Harley (1988) referred to these instances as “silences on maps”. Historical examples of such practices exist in various places worldwide, particularly in Australia, where the proclamation of Terra Nullius erased Aboriginal people, culture, and identity from the map creating a tabula rasa for colonial practices. Countering these practices, scholars and artists used counter-mapping techniques to map marginalized groups in cities, such as refugees, LGBTQ, and other underrepresented social and ecological issues.
Based on in-depth research on the architectural history of Brisbane’s demolitions in the 70s and 80s and the bordering practices of refugee resettlement within Brisbane and Logan regions, this exhibition proposes new mappings of the city using architectural and artistic mapping methods.
COVID Retrospect: Live Panel Discussion
This event marks the closing of COVID Retrospect: A Reconsidered Residential Habitat – an exhibition showcasing speculative concepts by Australian architects that suggests new potentials for residential architecture in the absence of civic life – by Architecture Et cetera Lab.
Three of the exhibition participants, Luke Hayward (Atelier Luke), Kirsty Volz (Toussaint and Volz) and Tom O’Shea (Five Mile Radius), will share their thoughts and approach to their work, as well as how they’re thinking about the design of our living habitat in a post-pandemic world.
This session will be moderated by Architecture Et cetera Lab member and exhibition co-curator Zuzana Kovar (Zuzana and Nicholas, Griffith University).
Asia Pacific Architecture Festival 2022
Co-operate, co-design, co-exist
This event is supported by Griffith University, Brickworks and the Asia Pacific Architecture Festival.
Tickets are $10
COVID Retrospect: A Reconsidered Residential Habitat
COVID Retrospect aims to encourage post-pandemic change by inviting a number of Australian architects and designers to provide alternative conceptualisations to one of more of their pre-pandemic projects in a speculative design exercise. The hypothetical drawings, sketches and models will be placed alongside drawings of the original output for comparative discussion.
The AEcLab proposes to both curate and simultaneously contribute to the exhibition by critically interpreting the participant’s contributions and creating an artistic response which distils the design solutions and supports the creative works of the exhibition.
The Residential Habitat in the Course of Isolation: The City to You Round Table
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On Wednesday September 30th a virtual round table will take place moderated by Helen Norrie and co-hosted by the Architecture Et cetera Lab and The Design Institute of Australia. The purpose of The City to You Round Table is to generate a conversation around the residential habitat in the course of isolation. The invited City to You Think Tank participants will present their creative responses to the COVID-19 imposed self-isolation measures currently affecting the world at large. Representing a range of disciplines, the invited participants will open up a multi-disciplinary conversation about the issues related to the residential built environment of our homes, particularly in relation to the building envelope and the notion of bringing the city to the individual.
The City to You Think Tank
This is a call for proposals to be included in The City to You Think Tank. We seek proposals for design works to be presented at a Round Table Event co-ordinated by the Architecture Et cetera Lab (Griffith University) and the Design Institute of Australia and further disseminated through a professional design publication.