PUZZLING EVIDENCE

Liam Jeremy Oxlade

Supervisor: Dean Boothroyd & Prof. Mark Jacques

Winner of the Anne Butler Memorial Medal

“The revolution in our attitude of mind to the reorganisation of our world calls for a change in our media of expression.” - Hannes Meyer in 1926

One hundred years ago, the possibility of explosive transformation in the aesthetic spectrum was born out of an optimism generated by radical change that had and was occurring within the global social structure.

In 2020, this possibility shares optimism with hope for even a moderate shift towards a global society capable of recognising the frail relationship it has with the planet it exists on.

An aesthetic regime we might look to as modern, or contemporary in this way, could be a set of devices employed by the politico-media complex.

This project is about locating an architecture - and devices for its production - that can participate confidently in this complex. Then how we might leverage this competency to pursue an outcome for the City of Greater Dandenong.

If our present circumstance generates an unbalanced, top heavy social structure which displaces the undesirable by-products of this minority’s lifestyle. Then the place that these things are displaced to, are exactly where our efforts should be focused.

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