The Stony Rises Project
Curator - Harriet Edquist
Harriet Edquist is professor of Architectural History in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University. She has published extensively on Australian architecture, art and design, with a particular focus on the twentieth century, and has pioneered studies on émigré architects in Melbourne and the Australian Arts and Crafts movement. Her books include The Culture of Landscape Architecture (1994); Frederick Romberg: The Architecture of Migration 1938–1975 (2000); Harold Desbrowe- Annear: A Life in Architecture (2004); Pioneers of Modernism: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia (2008) and George Baldessin: Paradox and Persuasion (2009). She is currently working on a monograph on Anglo–Australian textile designer Michael O’Connell, which will accompany a retrospective exhibition of his work at Bendigo Art Gallery in 2011.
Harriet is a research leader of the Geoplaced Knowledge Program of RMIT’s Design Research Institute, where she works with a trans-disciplinary team of scholars to examine how the intersection of design and networked media with traditional forms of knowledge can create new design practices, particularly those concerned with the understanding and construction of place. Harriet is also director of the RMIT Design Archives, a facility that is focussed on preserving and researching the heritage of design practices in Melbourne and its region from the twentieth century to the present.
Interview
The Stony Rises Project
A NETS Victoria Touring Exhibition developed by the RMIT Design Research Institute. Curators: Lisa Byrne, Professor Harriet Edquist and Associate Professor Laurene Vaughan
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