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each completed a First Class Honours thesis in 2004
at the College of Fine Arts (UNSW) under the supervision
of Professor Richard Goodwin. The ideas explored in
these papers continue to inform our practice in other
areas. Further postgraduate
research is likely forthcoming in the not-too-distant
future.
Tessa writes independently for journals and other forums,
and in 2009 was Highly Commended for the Frieze
Writers' Prize, as well as selected to take part
in the Eat
Your Words writing mentorship project. She has been
published in un
magazine and runway;
written catalogue essays for artists Sean Rafferty and
Hiromi Tango; and featured in the Gang
re:Publik anthology of Australia-Indonesia creative
exchange. Her writing can
be found online at makeshift
journal, our satellite webspace for sharing responses
to things we encounter in the course of our work and
perambulations (and obviously, updates on said work,
sometimes ...).
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Cross Currents: Negotiating
Cultural Difference
in Design |
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honours paper critically examined situations of cross-cultural
exchange within the field of design. Two projects, from
two very different practitioners, located in West and
East Timor, were analysed through the lens of post-colonial
theories of entanglement, translation and exchange. A
range of strategies were proposed for approaching and
understanding cultural exchange as an ongoing, dynamic
and transformative process within the context of design. |
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Curating Change: Design Exhibitions
and Critical Discourse |
 essa’s
Honours thesis investigated the potential agency of the
exhibition curator to generate an engaged critical discourse
within the design discipline. Local design exhibitions
were assessed with reference to two visual arts theorists
interested in radical new strategies for curatorial practice,
Binghui Huangfu (curator of Asian Traffic) and
Nikos Papastergiadis. The paper argued for a more critically
engaged design practice based on a considered and responsive
relationship to the contemporary world and articulated
through the medium of the exhibition. |
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