ORIENTATION SYMPOSIUM 1
architecture and activisim
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guest speakers
Dr. Michael Mosman
Dr. Michael Mosman is a Kuku Yalanji man, born and raised in Cairns on Yidinji Country. He now lives and works on Gadigal land and is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Sydney, where he has just been awarded his doctor of philosophy thesis: ‘Third Space, Architecture and Indigeneity. He is also a registered architect who champions Country and First Nations cultures as agents for structural change in the broader architectural profession at educational, practice and policy levels.
Tiffany Liew
Tiffany Liew is an architect at Andrew Burns Architecture, where she leads an education project with a sustainability and adventure-focused agenda. She is currently National EmAGN President, where she advocates for, supports and represents emerging architects and graduates within the Institute of Architects. She is also part of the editorial team for the Architecture Bulletin and through these roles, she explores how we can adapt our industry to the problems that climate change presents and how we can encourage diversity in the profession.
Seth Dias
Seth Dias is a recent University of Sydney alumni, his honours thesis ‘Architecture, Urban Space and the Invasion Day Protest’, as well as his ongoing activism in Sydney highlights his engagement with discourse between activism and architecture. Being a recent graduate of the school, Seth brings insight into the transition from activism for architecture as a student, to now as a professional in the workplace.
Amiera Piscopo
Amiera Piscopo is a graduate of architecture at Carter Williamson Architects, her work is grounded in social conscience and cultural memory. Amiera became a key member of the grassroots Save Our Sirius campaign to protect the landmark social housing block at Miller’s Point in Sydney. She is deeply interested in community-led, self-governed housing models and the politics of space in the city, along with adaptive reuse and built heritage preservation.
ORIENTATION SYMPOSIUM 2
location, narration and atmospheres: between film and architecture
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Guest Speakers
Prof. Michael Tawa
Michael Tawa, who is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney. His research interests coalesce around process: concepts, places, spaces, objects, and the conditions through which they move in the action of becoming. This framing has resulted in research across great scope, including the symbolism of sacred architecture, indigenous concepts and practices of place, as well as in cinema and the unprogrammable propensity of the architectural experience as framed through the philosophical work of Heidegger, Deleuze, Agamben and Nancy.
Luke Hayward
Luke Hayward, who leads the architecture and design studio Atelier Luke, which he founded in 2013. With a background in film production and set design, Luke brings a unique outlook in approaching architecture through the lens of the filmic. He is one of only a handful of architects registered in both Australia and Japan, uniquely bridging across cultural sensibilities and contexts, and maintains a practice working on a range of projects in both countries.
Caleb Niethe
Caleb Niethe, who is a Master of Architecture student at University of Sydney, and a student designer at Cox Architecture. His honours thesis explored the relationship between narrative and architecture, both as structures that operate in space across time. For him this focus on architecture as an equally time-based and space-based medium, is important for design that is sensitive to its cultural and environmental context. Investigating connections between film and architecture is one way he continues to develop this architectural approach.
