Building Movements

RESEARCH BACKGROUND 'Building Movements' was a workshop and exhibition project curated by Pia Ednie-Brown, to explore how event-based approaches can effectively leverage Creative Practice Research as an alternative research paradigm that sustains increasing enquiry and attention globally. The project developed an event-based mode of critique, engaging with RMIT's Design Hub Building as a site for research and experimentation. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: 'Building Movements' offered specific attention to the role and impact that (architectural) research environments have on the research occurring within them. This offers a significant contribution to the area, where the majority of event-based, participatory, creative practice research focuses attention on social, cultural and political dimensions, leaving the impacts of architectural environments un-acknowledged. This work demonstrates Ednie-Brown's ongoing leadership in the innovation of Creative Practice Research. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This work is located within a seven year international partnership project, Immediations: Media, Art and Event(CAN$2.91 million), led by internationally significant philosophers Prof Erin Manning and Prof Brian Massumi,funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) and involving researchers from 14 institutions and 17 community partners across Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, USA. It seeks to articulate event-based modes through which this research paradigm most effectively proceeds. It led to two peer-reviewed journal articles: 'Critical Passions: Building architectural movements toward a radical pedagogy (in 10 steps), Inflexions 8, Radical Pedagogies (April 2015); and 'Building Movements (in ten steps)',Architectural Design Research Symposium 20 - 21 November 2014, Conference Proceedings, Jan Smitheram, Jules Moloney & Simon Twose (eds) (ISBN 978-0-475-12415-9).