Date: November 18, 2022 (Friday), 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM Venue: Student Activity Center, Room B302 Topic: The Afterlives of Cities: Re-making Sustainable Worlds through Research, Teaching & Practice.
Artistic Research refers to defining and shaping its own research framework and practical standards through artistic creation, using art creation and performance as a research method for exploration and practice. This event invites Charity Edwards from Monash University to conduct an online lecture on The Afterlives of Cities, followed by a discussion led by Dean Liu Xi-Quan from the College of Fine Arts and Associate Professor Chen Ya-Ping from the Dance Academy. The discussion will focus on how different academic disciplines apply Artistic Research, exploring various research models and the feasibility of Artistic Research as a method for knowledge production at TNUA.
What does the contemporary city mean? What role and agency does art have in the re-imagining of cities? The Afterlives of Cities is a research group at Monash University that brings together astrophysicists, architects, artists, and urban planners. The group aims to understand and engage with the long lifecycle of urban environments, including population migration, rise and fall, and the dynamics of societal and economic changes. Through astrophysical concepts, the group investigates urban and town population changes, along with social and economic transformations in major Australian cities and their surrounding areas. Through Charity Edwards’ sharing of the The Afterlives of Cities case study, we will learn how this research group constructs their research methodology using practice-based research.
Charity Edwards (Monash University: Clayton, Australia)
Charity Edwards is a lecturer in the Department of Art, Design, and Architecture at Monash University, and an urban researcher. She is also a practicing architect and urban planner with over 15 years of experience. Her research focuses on the disruptive and imbalanced effects of urbanization and climate change in global regions, especially concerning the ocean and non-central spaces of the world, which have long been neglected. Recent research projects focus on the increasing urbanization around the Southern Ocean.
