Place and Parametricism

Mark Burry is Professor and the Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is a practising architect and has published internationally on two main themes: putting theory into practice with regard to procuring ‘challenging’ architecture, and the life, work and theories of the architect Antoni Gaudí. He was Senior Architect at the Sagrada Família Basilica Foundation, Spain, from 1979 until late 2016. He is the editor of Digital Architecture (2020) and edited an edition of Architectural Design titled Urban Futures (2020). Gini Lee is a landscape architect, interior designer and pastoralist. Her academic focus is on cultural and critical landscape architecture and spatial interior design theory and studio practice, to engage with the curation and postproduction of complex landscapes. Her recent curatorial practice experiments with Deep Mapping methods to investigate the landscapes, interiors and gardens of remote and rural Australia. She is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Adjunct Professor in Interior Design at RMIT University, Australia, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She was the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Melbourne from 2011 to 2017. Jeff Malpas is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He was founder and, until 2005, Director of the university's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. He has authored and edited numerous books with some of the world’s leading academic presses and has published a wide range of scholarly articles on topics in philosophy, art, architecture, and geography. His books include Place and Experience (2018) and Heidegger’s Topology (2006). Stanislav Roudavski is Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His work explores practical and theoretical issues of more-than-human design and his research engages with philosophies of ecology, technology, design and architecture. His work has been disseminated through multiple academic publications and international exhibitions. Previously, he worked on research projects at the University of Cambridge, UK, had a teaching engagement at MIT, USA and practised architecture in several European countries. Mark Taylor was Professor of Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His primary research focus was the history and theory of the modern architectural interior with an emphasis on cultural and social issues. He published several books including Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (2006), Interior Design and Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2013), Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Flow: Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2018). He was co-editor of Domesticity under Siege: When Home isn't Safe (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2022) with Georgina Downey and Terry Meade.

Introduction, Mark Burry and Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia), Gini Lee and Stanislav Roudavski (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania, Australia)

Section One: The Place of the Parametric: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives
Introduction, Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania, Australia)
1. Parameter, Place and Limit, Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania, Australia)
2. Against Parametric Reductionism in Design, Alberto Perez Gomez (McGill University, Canada)
3. Being Somewhere, Megan Baynes (Architect, Australia)
4. Digital Delusions: Fear and Loathing of the Parametric Utopia, Adrian Carter (Bond University, Australia)
5. Place as the Core of the Sacred, Elizabeth Farrelly (Writer and Critic, Australia)
6. High-computation Design in the Return to Place, Randall Lindstrom (University of Tasmania, Australia)

Section Two: Place and Creativity: Facing the Blank Sheet
Introduction, Mark Burry (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
7. Facing the Blank Sheet, Mark Burry (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
8. Empathetic Understanding, Nicholas Ray (Architect, UK)
9. Facing the Blank Sheet, Imogen Lesser Woods (Lecturer, UK)
10. Confronting the Blank Sheet and Making a Place, Neil Spiller (University College London, UK)
11. Diffusive Forms: Against Plato, Phillip Beesley (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Section Three: Place and Interiority: Atmosphere, Feeling and Spatial Presence
Introduction, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
12. Storied Atmospheres: Place in Writing and Building, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
13. Perfect Spaces – Imperfect Forms, Sally Stone (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
14. Mapping Interiority in the Public Realm, Paramita Atmodiwirjo and Yandi Andri Yatmo (University of Indonesia)
15. Atmospherics of Connection: Place-making through Story-telling Across Time, Emily Potter (Deakin University, Australia)

Section Four: Homeplace: On the Nature of Ephemeral Traces
Introduction, Gini Lee (University of Melbourne, Australia) including an interview with Aunty Enice Marsh (Adnyamathanha Elder, Australia) and review of Ross Gibson Story-drivers
16. Three Travels in Homeplace, Gini Lee (University of Melbourne, Australia)
17. An-archive and the Performative Making of Parametric Homeplaces, Stephen Loo (University of New South Wales, Australia)
18. My Dorm, Ed Hollis (University of Edinburgh, UK)
19. Shift(in)g Parameters: A Folding In, Suzie Attiwill (RMIT University, Australia)

Section Five: More-than-human Place: Design and Management of Future Environments
Introduction, Stanislav Roudavski (University of Melbourne, Australia)
10. Co-Design with Nonhuman Lifeforms, Stanislav Roudavski (University of Melbourne, Australia)
21. Reciprocity in Co-created Places: A Closer Look at Human Contributions to Nature, Amy Hahs (University of Melbourne, Australia)
22. The Nature of (Wild) Places, Wendy Steele (RMIT University, Australia)
23. Design as Epistemology, Freya Mathews (LaTrobe University, Australia)