RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES

26 April
Dr Peter Raisbeck
RESEARCH SEMINAR - "Absent Methodologies and Adhoc Systems: Design as Research and R&D in Australian Architectural firms"
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19 March
Associate Professor Kieron Bailey
RESEARCH SEMINAR - "Visualization, geography, and governance: the theory, design and delivery of high performance participatory systems"
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5 March
Professor Brendan Gleeson
RESEARCH SEMINAR - "Why is Social Science Critical to Understanding Cities?"
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29 March
Professor Abbas Rajabifard
RESEARCH SEMINAR - "Interdisciplinary Research"
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1 March
André Stephan (PhD Candidate)
RESEARCH SEMINAR - "Towards a More Comprehensive Energy Assessment of Residential Buildings: A multi-scale life cycle energy analysis"
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20 October
Mats Lieberg
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
RESEARCH SEMINAR- "Who has the right to the city? Case studies on the use of urban public space"
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6 October
A/Prof Bharat Dave
RESEARCH SEMINAR- "The Lotus of Bahapur"
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15 September
Dr Alex Selenitsch
RESEARCH SEMINAR- "Ideal City: maps and measures"
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25 August
Hannah Lewi
RESEARCH SEMINAR- "Hand-held digital touring: thoughts on 3 collaborative projects for teaching in the field"
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4 August
Anthony Worm - PhD Student
RESEARCH SEMINAR- "Free flow of Space"
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26 May
Dr Anoma Pieris
Indigenous urbanity – issues at stake in the delivery of a metropolitan cultural centre
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19 May
Panel Discussion
Australian Cities in the Face of Climate Change
Participants: Dr. Alan March (Bushfire Prevention), Dr. Dominique Hes (Teaching Kids about Building Sustainability), Dr. Robert Crawford (Embodied energy in Australian Cities), Dr. Fiona Miller (Water –from too little to too much?), Ian Woodcock (Getting to Yes on Intensification)
Chair: A/Professor Carolyn Whitzman
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12 May
Professor Tom Kvan
Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing a Platform for Research: A New Building for Our Faculty
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5 May
Associate Professor Eckhart Hertzsch and Dr Christopher Heywood
Second life for buildings: Life-cycle investing for sustainable refurbishments
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21 April
Associate Professor Ray Green
Notions of 'Neighbourhood' in Victorian Coastal Settlements
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14 April
Ian Adams
Sustainability and Environmental Engineer, Organica Engineering
Positive Energy
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31 March
John Ting
Minding Mobility: Institutional Architecture and Settlement Patterns in Northwest Borneo, 1849-1910
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24 March
Dr Che Biggs
Shareware, fungus and food swaps: Why distributed systems are crucial for a low-carbon resilient future
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17 March
Professor Sun Sheng Han
Urban expansion in an emerging global city: passive land use change or active development strategy?
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10 March
Professor Philip Goad
Making the Modern Californian School
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3 March
Associate Professor Jianfei Zhu
Scale, State and a Chinese Modernity
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Dr Anna Hurlimann - 4 March
Debunking myths about 'big-water' infrastructure failures – cases from the US and Australia
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Dr Dominique Hes - 11 March
Challenges of getting an ARC and then conducting the research – turning plans into action – working with schools to use buildings as text books to teach sustainability

Kattika Kittiprasan - 18 March
Sacred landscapes and sustainability

Maarit Kahlia - 25 March
SoftGIS-method and knowledge as a bridge builder in collaborative and communicative urban planning practice

Dr Peter Raisbeck - 1 April
Built environment research pathways: Post Copenhagen

A/Prof Justyna Karakiewicz - 15 April
MSD goes to Venice

Dr Scott Drake - 22 April
Update on new building research

Dr Peter Raisbeck (Chair): Panel Discussion - 29 April
The limit to Melbourne’s growth: Does size matter?
Note: To be held in Room 303 (Design Space), ABP Building

Marketta Kyttä - 6 May
SoftGIS-method and knowledge as a bridge builder in collaborative and communicative urban practice

Dr Ong Boon Lay - 13 May
Down the garden path: Diversions around architecture

Dr Scott Drake - 20 May
Update on new building research

Dr David Nichols - 27 May
International planning's influence in the first decade of the Victorian Housing Commission

Susan Massey - 29 July
The aesthetics of performance: Regulating architectural style in low-income housing

Susan Massey - 29 July
The aesthetics of performance: Regulating architectural style in low-income housing

Jennifer Robins - 5 August
Teaching and learning research: Gen Y students

Dr Alex Selenitsch - 12 August
Like and Unlike: the dynamic structure of group creativity

Professor Kim Dovey - 19 August
Placing graffiti

Dr Andrew Leach - 26 August
What is architectural history?

Associate Professor Carolyn Whitzman, Dr Crystal Legacy and Dr. Jennifer Day - 2 September
Asia-Pacific Safety Tool-Kit: a tool kit approach to community-local government partnerships

Dr. Hemanta Doloi - 9 September
Project cost management: why it fails in project management?

Blair Gardiner - 16 September
The Great White City' - Mr Mac's urban legacy

Panel Discussion - Dr. Peter Raisbeck (Chair) - 7 October
Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)

Dr. David Nichols - 14 October
International influences in the first decade of the Housing Commission of Victoria

Sidh Sintusingha - 21 October
Formulas for the 'World-Class' City? Global development and displacement of the local in Johor Bahru and Samutprakarn

Ian Woodcock - 28 October
Intensifying Places

Dr Toong-Khuan Chan - 5 March 2009
Increasing Construction Value Added: A Malaysian Case study
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Scott Drake - 12 March 2009
Research Opportunities for the New ABP Building
ABP, University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Paolo Tombesi - 19 March 2009
Cities, finance, polity, industry: The multiple uses of buildings
ABP, University of Melbourne

Mr Leon Zhang Li - 26 March 2009
New Trend on Regional Disparities in China’s Urbanization, 1982 – 2007
Tongji University, China

Ms Clare Newton - 2 April 2009
Half-time Reflections: The joys and sorrows of an ARC Linkage Grants
ABP, University of Melbourne

Mr Andrew Grant - 9 April 2009
Property and the Global Financial Crisis
Charter Keck Cramer

Professor Kim Dovey - 23 April 2009
Place as Assemblage
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Siqing Chen - 30 April 2009
Ecological Carrying Capacity Assessment of Metropolitan Melbourne: A GIS-based Approach
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Louis Mills - 7 May 2009
Environmental Assessment of Wind Turbine Farms - A View from Texas & Australia
Texas Tech University

Professor Mark Eppli - 14 May 2009
Do Single-Family House Price Premiums Exist in Smart Growth Communities
and are They Sustained Over Time?
Marquette University, Wisconsin

Dr Harry Karamujic - 28 May 2009
Cyclicality and Seasonality of Home Loan Interest Rates in Australia
ABP, University of Melbourne

Professor Miles Lewis - 30 July 2009
Lehmwickel and the German Diaspora
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Robert Crawford - 6 August 2009
Assessing indirect environmental impacts in the built environment
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Alan March - 13 August 2009
An Urban Planning Diagnostic: explaining success and failure
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Carolyn Whitzman with Dana Mizrachi, Megan Worthington, and Jana Perkovic - 20 August 2009
From Battery-Reared to Free-Range Children: Planning for children’s independent mobility
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Victor Chen - 27 August 2009
Private participation in infrastructure development in China
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Janet McGaw - 3 September 2009
Performative Spatial Practices in the Urban realm: a ‘tactic’ for transcendence
ABP, University of Melbourne

Mr Blair Gardiner - 10 September 2009
Follow my Bangalorey Man
ABP, University of Melbourne

Ms Clare Mouat - 17 September 2009
Counting on Community
ABP, University of Melbourne

Bambang Hari Wibisono - 24 September 2009
Post Earthquake Redevelopment of Kasongan Pottery Village, Yogyakarta
Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia

Professor Kevin Nute - 29 September 2009
Time in Architectural Space
Designing the Past, Present and Future into Built Forms
University of Oregon

Dr Flavia Marcello - 8 October 2009
Identities and Innovations in 20th Century International Expositions: the Italian Case
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Kate Shaw - 15 October 2009
Artists and gentrification – hapless victims, knowing participants, or a source of creative resistance?
ABP, University of Melbourne

Professor Richard Tomlinson, Chair in Urban Planning - 22 October 2009
The Beijing Olympics Through American and South African Eyes
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Ajibade Ayodeji Aibinu & Mr Blair Gardiner - 29 October 2009
Alternative Dispute Resolution in Australia: Trends and Developments
ABP, University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Paul Walker - 6 March 2008
Imperial to international: The Empire Survey of Museums and its Aftermath
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Anoma Pieris - 13 March 2008
Scraps and Patches: Piecing Together the Interior Geographies of Australian Internment
ABP, University of Melbourne

Jodie Pipkorn - 20 March 2008
Toward Zero Emission Building in Australia
Winner of the 2004 Fritz Janeba Travelling scholarship

Dr Iftekhar Ahmed - 3 April 2008
Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction: The Asian Context
Visiting academic

Associate Professor Justyna Karakiewicz - 10 April 2008
Research Through Design
ABP, University of Melbourne

Ms AnnMarie Brennan - 17 April 2008
A Genealogy of Branding: the Case of Olivetti
ABP, University of Melbourne

Mr Kevin Taylor - 24 April 2008
Research on the Run: Developing A Practice Based Research Agenda
Taylor Cullity Lethleon

Associate Professor Qinghua Guo - 1 May 2008
The Central Axis of Beijing
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Alex Selenitsch - 8 May 2008
Sets, Series and Suites: Introduction, Conclusion and Something In Between
ABP, University of Melbourne

Mr Peter Williams - 15 May 2008
Research, Another Way To Practice?
Williams Boag

Dr Chris Heywood - 22 May 2008
Asset Management for Social Housing
ABP, University of Melbourne

Professor Sun Sheng Han - 29 May 2008
Motorization and Sustainable Transport Planning: An Asian Model
ABP, University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Bharat Dave - 31 July 2008
Fabrications
ABP, University of Melbourne

Tom Cantwell - 7 August 2008
Property tax, government policy and housing affordability
Property Council

Peter Ashford - 14 August 2008
Post-pour performance of industrial pavements
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Janet McGaw and Dr Emily Potter - 21 August 2008
The poetics and politics of sustainable place-making
ABP, University of Melbourne

Lindy Joubert - 28 August 2008
The UNESCO Observatory: Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr David Nichols - 4 September 2008
The provision of public and community buildings in private subdivisions
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Darko Radovic - 11 September 2008
World City – a hypothesis to revisit
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Scott Heyes - 18 September 2008
The Sea, A River, A River Valley and Mountain Spirits: Using Kurrur Juaq National Park To Sustain Traditional Knowledge
ABP, University of Melbourne

Dr Hao Wu - 9 October 2008
Property Cycles and State Intervention: Lessons for China
ABP, University of Melbourne

Christine Oakley - 16 October 2008
Planning for all of Melbourne: next steps in Melbourne 2030 implementation?
ABP, Univesity of Melbourne

Dr Hannah Lewi and Dr Wally Smith - 23 October 2008
The magic of machines in the home
ABP & Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne

Professor Miles Lewis
ABP, University of Melbourne

Jillian Walliss - 25 October 2007
The 4 Ps: communicative urban planning and development innovations in Finland

John Sadar - 18 October 2007
Reconfiguring wilderness? An exploration of Tongariro National Park as cultural landscape

11 October 2007
Two Vitaglass windows: communicating ultraviolet health glass in interwar England

Associate Professor Ray Green - 4 October 2007
Coastal towns in transition: local perceptions of landscape change

Jeremy Reynolds - 13 September 2007
Demographic research in the Department of Sustainability and Environments

Professor Philip Goad - 6 September 2007
Laboratories for the body and mind: the architecture of the Lady Gowrie child centres

Dr Paul Mees - 30 August 2007
A 'great planning success'?

Dr Hemanta Doloi - 23 August 2007
Pedagogy for virtual delivery - experiences from online project management subjects

Professor Shuichi Matsumura - 16 August 2007
State of the art housing and house building technologies in Japan

Professor Steven Whitford - 9 August 2007
Urbanism, Architecture, and Deleuze

Dennis Hogan - 2 August 2007
What the Victorian building industry wants from research

Dr Ajibade Ayodeji Aibinu - 26 July 2007
Understanding Fairness and its Role in Enhancing Cooperative behaviour in Construction

Dr Jan Kenneth Birksted - 24 May 2007
Le Corbusier and the Occult: Modern Architecture and Modern Historiography versus Magic

Dr Kate Shaw - 17 May 2007
The Place of International Students in Melbourne

Dr Jules Moloney - 10 May 2007
Building Skins as Kinetic Process Systems

Mr Grant Rowlands and Mark Disney - 3 May 2007
Scope for Improvement

Dr Alan March - 26 April 2007
Can Urban & Regional Planners be Professional?

Dr Margaret Grose - 19 April 2007
10%: the allocation of POS in Western Australia

Rob McGauran and Marcus White - 29 March 2007
Embedded Research

Dr Victor Chen - 22 March 2007
Emerging forces in emerging markets: Chinese contractors in Africa

Dr Jianfei Zhu - 15 March 2007
Beijing 1949-59:  A Spatial Revolution

Professor Paolo Tombesi - 8 March 2007
Blame the Middle East

Associate Professor Graham Treloar - 1 March 2007
Water Embodied in Construction

Dr Patrick Janssen - 19 October 2006
Tentative modelling: digital techniques for design exploration

Dr Dominique Hes - 12 October 2006
Regenerative Design ­ A Proactive Approach Beyond Sustainability

Mr Peter Raisbeck - 5 October 2006
The PPP product system: Public-Private Partnerships and the financialization of architectural design at Southern Cross Station

Ms Buket Tosun - 14 September 2006
Investigation in Australia:  The Concepts and Re-interpretations of Memory in the Making of Monuments and Landscapes in Relation to Military History and Gallipoli

Dr Scott Drake - 7 September 2006
The Workplace Environment: Innovation in Commercial and Institutional Projects

Professor Kim Dovey, Ian Woodcock, Dr Stephen Wood - 31 August 2006
Jazz Grates:  The 'Cheesegrater' and Fitzroy's Urban Character

Andrew Hutson - 24 August 2006
Parliament House Competition Canberra: Where was Louis Khan?

Dr Jeffrey Turnbull - 17 August 2006
The Architecture of Walter Burley Griffin: Concrete Applications

David Headon and Stuart Mackenzie - 10 August 2006
Legacy for a Nation: the Griffins in Canberra, then and now

Professor Catherin Bull - 3 August 2006
Confronting Complexity: rethinking design education and practice

Clare Newton - 27 July 2006
Wicked Details

Dr David O'Brien - 25 May 2006
Reality/Television: Advertising images and everyday life in rural Thailand

Dr Sidh Sintusingha - 18 May 2006
The Cultural Double Helix of Hyper-Modernization and Hyper-Tradition: Contests and collusions in contemporary Thai cultural landscapes

Dr Greg Missingham - 11 May 2006
Complex and Subtle Systems in Architectural Design Teaching: The Case of the Chinese Scholar Garden

Associate Professor Julie Willis - 4 May 2006
Healthy Modernism

Dr Qinghua Guo - 27 April 2006
Production Process: Pottery Buildings of Han China (206 BC - AD 220)

Dr Carolyn Whitzman - 13 April 2006
Evaluating a Professional Social Marketing Campaign: The planning for health and well-being project

Alex Selenitsch - 6 April 2006
The House of a Missing Family

Professor Kevin O'Connor - 30 March 2006
Toward a Good Transport System: a Production and Consumption Perspective

Professor Neil Crosby - 23 March 2006
UK Research Assessment Exercises - how they work and what is the impact on the academics

Professor Miles Lewis - 16 March 2006
Prefabrication: California, Australia and the Pacific

Professor John Worthington - 9 March 2006
Research Through Design

Dr Jeffrey Turnbull - 27 October 2005
The Architecture of Walter Burley Griffin: archetypal patterns

Dr Jim Smith and Associate Professor Ray Wyatt - 20 October 2005
Performance Briefing: A Melbourne Example

Valerie Francis - 13 October 2005
The Importance of Workplace Support in the Australian Construction Industry

Dr Paolo Tombesi - 6 October 2005
Good thinking and short memory: On the socialisation of learning in building

Dr Andrew Saniga - 15 September 2005
A Mongrel Profession: Landscape Architecture in Australia

Alex Selenitsch - 8 September 2005
The Altogether Different Project: The Doctorate by Design

Dr Derham Groves - 1 September 2005
There's No Place Like Holmes

Dr Richard Reed - 4 August 2005
Climate Change and the Built Environment: the Adverse Effect from Residential, Office and Retail Buildings

Christopher Wilson - 28 July 2005
Identity, Memory and their Representation in the Funerary Architecture of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Professor Catherin Bull - 26 May 2005
200 Miles of What? Re-thinking the Role of Open Space in the Contemporary City

Professor Paul Carter and Mr. Erik Schmitt - 19 May 2005
Reinventing the Wall: Heritage Design in Performance

Dr Hemanta Doloi - 12 May 2005
Application of Process simulation for Optimising Value Chain in Managing Assets

Professor Sumet Jumsai - 5 May 2005
Diversity in Globalism

Sara Wilkinson - 28 April 2005
Educational Initiatives in Construction

Professor Susan J. Smith - 20 April 2005
Revitalising Housing; Rematerialising Home

Professor Philip Goad - 14 April 2005
New Education and the New Architecture: Modernism at Koornong School

Professor Kwang-yerl Lee - 7 April 2005
Wind Loads in Architectural Design: Jeju World Cup Stadium in Korea

Anoma Pieris - 17 March 2005
Utopian Sites and Global Visions: TheArchitecture of 20th Century Exhibitions in Sri Lanka

Miles Lewis - 10 March 2005
Vernacular Authenticity for Reality Television

Professor Kim Dovey 3 March 2005
' I Mean to be Critical, But...': On the Prospects for a Critical Architecture

Dr Julie Willis - 28th October 2004
STYLE/SCALE/STATUS/SITE: the Sensibility of Architectural Eclecticism

Professor Luis Zapata - 14 October 2004
Luis Barragán and the Architecture of Colour

Dr Rachel Kallus 7 October 2004
The Political Role of the Everyday

Dr Hannah Lewi - 16 September 2004
Contesting Heritage Sites

Lindy Joubert - 9th September 2004
L'Art Pour L'Espoir: A Community Arts Challenge

Professor Paul Carter - 2 September 2004
Save the Wall: creative research in a research-active faculty

Jason Pickford - 26 August 2004
The Coprolites Architectural and Other Fragments: Drawings 1959 - 2002

Dr Karal Ann Marling - 19 August 2004
Designing Disney's Theme Parks

Dr Derham Groves - 12 August 2004
Pro Hart's Frankenstein Monsters

Associate Professor David Evans - 3 August 2004
The Use of 'Fuzzy Logic' in Public Decision-Making

Professor Gordon Clark - 29 July 2004
Money Flows Like Mercury

Valerie Francis - 20 May 2004
Work-family conflict in the Australian Construction industry: Public sector and private sector comparisons

Associate Professor Steve Harfield - 13 May 2004
Problems, ‘Problematisation’ and Design Processes: Exploring Languages of Explanation

Dr Darko Radovic - 6 May 2004
The Concept of Urbanity in Culturally Diverse Contexts

Dr Gabriella Olshammer - 29 April 2004
Urban Transformations in Redundant Industrial Sites: On Visions that Create New Places and Hide Existing Ones

Associate Professor Paul Walker - 22 April 2004
The Typical and the Monstrous: Animals and Architecture in the Colonial Museum

Professor Kim Dovey and Mr Ian Woodcock - 8 April 2004
Federation Squared: Designing for Difference

Dr Paolo Tombesi - 1 April 2004
The Lie of the Building: How to Combine Cultural Aspirations and Practical Tricks. A Review of Renzo Piano’s Work

Dr Carolyn Whitzman - 25 March 2004
Safer Communities for Isolated Women: an Introduction to a Research Project

Professor Catherin Bull and Dr Darko Radovic - 18 March 2004
The BMB experience as the focus for research into cross-cultural and cross disciplinary design teaching

Professor Han Sun Sheng - 17 March 2004
Decentralized Urban Development and Spatial Clustering of Condominium Property Values: Singapore in the 1990s

Professor Marco Frascari - 11 March 2004
Curiosity Kills Cats, not Architects: the Work of Saul Steinberg

Professor Mike Batty - 4 March 2004
Urban Morphology: Fractals and Syntax