Auditorium, Menzies Institute for Medical Research
University of Tasmania Medical Science Precinct,
17 Liverpool Street
Hobart Tasmania 7000
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Facing global-scale challenges, we wonder how we can have an impact. But the solutions are propelled by thousands of smaller acts. As architects and designers, what if we stepped outside of traditional practice? What if we gave in to lateral thought, using our knowledge and creativity to engage in these smaller acts?
Join us as we step outside convention. Here, on the “fringe” of practice, we have the opportunity to deepen our cultural understanding, support community financially and socially, consider environmental impact and amplify unique experiences.
Day 1 (Saturday 4 March) of The Architecture Symposium: Ideas from the Fringe, held in Hobart will draw together a series of presentations by architects, and their collaborators, that examine the myriad benefits and challenges of thinking and acting on the “fringe.”
Day 2 (Sunday 5 March) includes a guided visit and lunch at John Wardle’s Bruny Island farm, the site of the award-winning buildings Captain Kelly’s Cottage and Shearers Quarters.
This is a unique opportunity to join a small group for a weekend of learning, inspiration and camaraderie in Tasmania.
NOTE: Due to site constraints and in deference to the local population, the tour is divided into two small groups. Group 2 is scheduled 1.5 hrs behind Group 1.
8.00 am
Delegate arrival and refreshments Group 1 delegates assemble at Brickworks Design Studio, 9 Franklin Wharf, Hobart
9.00 am
Delegates depart Bus leaves Hobart CBD
10.10 am
Depart Kettering for Bruny Island on the Sealink Ferry
10.30 am
Bus departs Roberts Point for Waterview (John Wardle’s farm)
11.00 am
Tour and talk at Waterview A guided tour of the award-winning buildings Captain Kelly’s Cottage and The Shearers Quarters, led by John Wardle
12.30 pm
Lunch
1.45 pm
Free time to explore
2.45 pm
Delegates gather at the pick-up point
3.00 pm
Delegates depart Bus leaves Waterview
3.30 pm
Bus arrives at Roberts Point
4.10 pm
Ferry departs
4.40 pm
Bus departs Kettering Ferry Terminal
5.30 pm
Closing drinks Bus returns to Brickworks Design Studio and closing drinks commence
6.30 pm
Program concludes Delegates depart
5 March
DAY TWO: Tour Group 2 – SOLD OUT
NOTE: Due to site constraints and in deference to the local population, the tour is divided into two small groups. Group 2 is scheduled 1.5 hrs behind Group 1.
9.30 am
Delegate arrival and refreshments Group 2 delegates assemble at Brickworks Design Studio, 9 Franklin Wharf, Hobart
10.30 am
Delegates depart Bus leaves Hobart CBD
11.30 am
Depart Kettering for Bruny Island on the Sealink Ferry
12.00 pm
Bus departs Roberts Point for Waterview (John Wardle’s farm)
12.30 pm
Lunch
1.45 pm
Tour and talk at Waterview A guided tour of the award-winning buildings Captain Kelly’s Cottage and The Shearers Quarters, led by John Wardle
3.15 pm
Free time to explore
4.15 pm
Delegates gather at the pick-up point
4 .30 pm
Delegates depart Bus leaves Waterview
5.00 pm
Bus arrives at Roberts Point
5.30 pm
Ferry departs
6.00 pm
Bus departs Kettering Ferry Terminal
6.45 pm
Closing drinks Bus returns to Brickworks Design Studio and closing drinks commence
Kevin Low was born and raised in the monsoon tropics of Malaysia and Singapore, leaving to study architecture in the United States between 1983 and 1991. During his time in the United States, Kevin worked at SRG Partnership and GBD Architects in Portland, Oregon.
In 2002, Kevin founded Small Projects in Kuala Lumpur. Working entirely alone since Small Projects was born, Kevin lives, writes and teaches from Malaysia – engaged in the discovery of how the big picture is less the act of framing radical solutions than a radical way of framing relevant problems.
Clare Kennedy is an architect and director of design studio Five Mile Radius. Clare is interested in local, bio-based and recycled construction materials, which she explores through both practice and research. Five Mile Radius is founded on a tradition of making and has operated a workshop alongside its architecture practice since its foundation.
Chris Gilbert is a founding director of Archier, a multi-award-winning practice based in Melbourne, with extensive design experience in residential and commercial projects.
Tolstoy, macroeconomics and a healthy dose of sci-fi have all profoundly influenced Chris' worldview; he enters the second stage of his career outward-looking, optimistic, and passionately pursuing ideas that touch the edges of architecture. Chris is also actively involved in education through the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University, as a design studio leader.
Jacob’s ancestral home on his mother’s side is in Daly River, Northern Territory. He also has Chinese, Malay and Scottish heritage. Jacob has lived all across the Eora Nation for the last 20 years and currently lives on Carigal Country with his family, in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Jacob’s work combines theatre, film, TV, fine art and public art – using these forums to create First Nation responses to the stories, people and Country that reside here on this land.
A Bigambul and Wakka Wakka man from lutruwita (Tasmania), AJ King is a facilitator, musician, artist, curator, and producer with over 20 years’ experience working in policy development, land management, project management and production.
AJ is a founder of Ochre-Rain, a business management company that supports a growing number of First Nations owned businesses – collectively working to improve systems, support opportunities and outcomes for First Nations people.
Kirsha Kaechele is an artist and curator at Mona (Museum of Old and New Art), and founder of Material Institute—her charity with branches in two countries—New Orleans, USA, and lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia. She is interested in the space where complex problems exist, and places transformation at the heart of her work. For Kaechele, problems are a medium for art.
Brigitte Shim was born in Kingston, Jamaica before immigrating to Toronto, Canada – where she now calls home. Brigitte studied architecture and environmental studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
She is a founding principal of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects and has been a faculty member at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto since 1988.
Howard Sutcliffe received degrees in environmental studies and architecture at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He worked with significant Canadian architects Ronald Thom, Paul Merrick, Barton Myers and KPMB Architects before founding Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in 1994.
Howard was the first recipient of the Ronald J. Thom Award (1990) given by the Canada Council for early design achievement.
As co-founding director of Liminal Studio, a creatively agile architecture and design practice, Peta is passionate about expanding benchmarks and firmly believes that to create new design frontiers, collaboration across broader disciplines drives new thinking and empowers communities.
Driven by the ethos that many minds make enlightened work, Liminal Studio brings together creative thinkers, experienced managers, inventive designers, emerging talent and architecture leaders at the top of their game who are drawn to connect and share experiences, knowledge, ideas and passions.
John Wardle has an international reputation as a design architect. His process builds upon ideas that evolve from a site’s topography, landscape, history and context.
As the founder of Wardle, which has studios in Sydney and Melbourne, John is attuned to the importance of detail. It is through the detail that the nature of material, the fit to function and the experience of occupation is expressed.
The work of Wardle is tailored to place and highly experiential in nature. Diverse in scale and typology, the practice portfolio spans domestic dwellings, university buildings, museums and large commercial offices.
