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PhD CANDIDATE CONFERENCE | 28th SEPTEMBER 2012

The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning are proud to present Research Visions 2012, a day long conference of research presentations by PhD Candidates from across all disciplines in the Faculty.

All staff, students and members of the public are welcome to attend these sessions where candidates will present 20 minute snap-shots of their research topics, followed by Q&A Sessions, an inter-disciplinary panel discussion on student research within the faculty, and an Award Ceremony with People's Choice awards for the Best Presentations from the day.

If you're thinking of embarking on a PhD, are looking for potential research collaborators, or just want to keep up to speed with the field of contemporary research Research Visions 2012 is not to be missed.

Day Sessions will run Simultaneously in the Wilkinson Building Lecture Theatres 2 and 3.

Panel Discussion to be held in the Wilkinson Building Lecture Theatre 1 between 5 - 6pm

8.30am Breakfast Welcome

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9:00 - 10:30 ALT2

 

Chair: Dr Peter Armstrong

Anne Watson

Michael Zanardo

Jon Golemewski

OPERA HOUSE, HOUSING & SCHIZOPHERNIA

Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House: the "lost" years 1966-70

Shaping Affordable Housing: An Architectural Typological Investigation  of Workers' Housing in Sydney 1900-1940

Schizophrenia and the designed environment, a tight and uncomfortable relationship.

9:00 - 10:30 ALT3

 

Chair: Dr Lian Loke

Mohammad Khan

Ingrid Pohl  

Kaz Grace

AUGMENTED REALITY, SENSATE SURFACES + INTERPRETATION

Using Geo-located Augmented Reality to Introduce Analogising in e-Participation

Architecture, Sensitive Surface

Interpretation-driven Association in Design

10:30 MORNING TEA

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11:00 - 12:30 ALT2

 

Chair: Prof Richard Hyde

Anir Upadhyay

Margret Liu

Peter Maganov

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, EFFICIENCY + REPORTING

Exploring the Environmental Quality of Life (QoLe) in Ecologically Intentional Housing

Energy Efficient retrofits of existing tertiary education buildings

Accounting for Outcomes: State of the Environment Reporting

11:00-12:30 ALT3

 

Chair: Dr OnacloV

Taiki Uno

Ella Manor

Nickash Singh

TANGIBLE, SPATIAL + TEMPORAL DESIGN

Movable Tangible Interfaces for Communication Over Distance

Preferred Spatial Post-Processing of Popular Stereophonic Music for Headphone Reproduction.

Investigating Temporal Information Awareness and Management in Email

12:30pm LUNCH

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1:00 - 2:30 ALT2

 

Chair: Dr Duanfang Lu

Ninik Suhartini

Sally Lewis

Graham Bell

PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT + THE ARCHITECT

Disconnect between planning process and outcomes in developing countries: a case study of Jayapura City Indonesia

Reconciling Planning, Development and Housing Outcomes in Australia

The Changing Roles and Responsibilities of Architects in Australia since 1975

1:00 - 2:30 ALT3

 

Chair: Dr Dagmar Reinhardt

Rachel Couper

Arosha Gamage

Serena Zhan

OTHERNESS + BIOMIMICRY + TRANSDISCIPLINARITY

An Other Nature

Exploring the potential of Biomimicry as a  design approach to enhance Ecological Sustainability in Architecture

Transdisciplinarity: toward a new paradigm in the architecture profession

2:30pm AFTERNOON TEA

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3:00-4:30 ALT2

 

Chair: Dr Wendy Davis

Daniel Ryan

Ashakali Nathwani

Thomas Parkinson

CLIMATE, ENERGY EFFICIENCY + THERMAL COMFORT

The Climatically Appropriate House

Can an Energy Efficient HVAC System deliver Optimum Indoor Thermal Comfort at Lowest Life Cycle Cost?

Perception of Transient Thermal Environments: Pleasure and Alliesthesia

3:00 - 4:30 ALT3

 

Chair: Professor Michael Tawa

Seyed Mahdi Khatami

Alison Earl

Farzane Haghighi

ISLAMIC CITIES, LANGUAGE + NON-PLACE

Religious reading of Islamic cities; Necessity of research

The language of sustainability in Australian architecture

An exploration of the Tehran bazaar as a non-place

4:30pm Drinks while 'Best Presentation' Award is decided

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5:00 - 6:00pm ALT1

Prof. Michael Tawa - Architecture

Dr Martin Tomitsch - Design Computing

Prof. Richard De Dear - Architectural Design Science

INTER-DISCIPLINARY PANEL DISCUSSION ON STUDENT RESEARCH IN THE FACULTY

6:00-7:00pm WRAP UP DRINKS

6:00-7:00pm WRAP UP DRINKS

Location

Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning: MAP

University of Sydney

Wilkinson Building

148 City Rd Darlington

COST: FREE

MORNING AND AFTERNOON TEA PROVIDED

More information: Contact Sarah Breen Lovett