[chisigmail] IDG Seminar: PhD Completion Seminar: The Silent Language of Designing Gesture, Talk and Representation at Work in the Architectural Design Studio

[Daryl Ku]

(Apologies for cross posting)

You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar.


PRESENTER:	Inger Mewburn, Department of Architecture, Building and  
Planning, University of Melbourne

TITLE:		PhD Completion Seminar:  The Silent Language of Designing Gesture,  
Talk and Representation at Work in the Architectural Design Studio

VENUE:		University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street,  
Carlton

DATE and TIME:	Friday 29 May 2009, 3-4 pm


ABSTRACT:
Gesture can be thought of as a knowledge practice that helps to bind  
professional communities together. This project was concerned with the  
gesture practice of architects, specifically gestures that occur during  
collaborative design practice in educational settings. The location of the  
study was the design studio, where experienced architects work with  
students on design propositions. What is interesting about the design  
studio is a heavy reliance on things - drawings, models and computer  
screens - which need to be understood as an integral part of the gesture  
work that is being done. This two year field study looked for patterns of  
gesture behaviour and the knowing manipulation of things when architecture  
students and teachers engaged in what might be called 'design story  
telling'. It is hoped that this knowledge will help form the basis for a  
better accommodation of gesture in online and blended learning contexts  
for architecture education and, potentially, other design practices.

BIO:
Inger Mewburn graduated as an architect in the early 1990s and worked in  
practice for about a decade before becoming an architectural design  
teacher. She has just completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and  
currently works as a research fellow at RMIT University. Her interactive  
digital art work has appeared in magazines and exhibitions around the  
world including Melbourne, the UK, France, Greece, Austria, China and the  
USA.


Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome.
http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html

-- 
Daryl Ku
PhD Candidate & Interaction Design Group Coordinator

Interaction Design Group
Department of Information Systems
Room 4.65, ICT Building
University of Melbourne
+61 3 834 41516
s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au