Michael Pharoah
Top 10 Shortlisted, 2016
Ambiguity and Flux
Imagine a space that, when you step foot in it, transforms your perception of a university, resembling something of Innovation, Ambiguity and perhaps even a Radical Creative outlet. What if a proposal could divulge beyond the 'conventional' parameters that typical development plans advocate and evolve towards something seemingly less tangible, and yet, revolutionary. Perhaps the notion of "living laboratory" could reflect a distinctively immaterial creation: that of the internet. The digital age of Technology is an opportunity for Curtin University to reflect a rapidly evolving pedagogy... the way in which we see Education today, and in the future.
In resembling something of a Black Hole, let's step into a time capsule that guides us to reflect on these notions of innovation and ideas in flux. Manipulated by a form that invites you on a journey, a metaphor for the 'process' of design we know so well, and yet, unassumingly ambiguous and unknown to wider society and commercial fronts. Perhaps we can superimpose the conventional with the unconventional; the formal with the informal; the commercial with the educational... a capitalist motif radicalised by a creative renaissance.
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