Repairing: Environmental Regeneration, Art and Building with Baracco+Wright and Linda Tegg Past Event
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Accessible bathroom, All gender bathroom, Wheelchair accessibleJoin Bookshop Uro for the launch of two new books that explore ecological renewal through architecture and other forms of creative practice.
In 2018, Baracco+Wright curated the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, with the collaboration of artist Linda Tegg. Their exhibition was based on a living installation, Grasslands Repair, that presented more than 60 species of Western Plains Grasslands plants from South-East Australia. By covering the floor of the pavilion with these plants, it explored the relationship between architecture and the natural environment, especially with regards to the ecologically sensitive landscape of Australia and the cultural importance of the land for its Indigenous people.
Baracco+Wright have now followed up this work with two publications further examining the questions it prompted: Knowing and Unknowing: The Lives of Repair, co-authored with Linda Tegg, and Buildings & Living Things: Garden House. Both books are focussed on the interrelation between human and non-human species.
In Knowing and Unknowing: The Lives of Repair, discussions revolve around stories of ecological and bureaucratic evolution following the Biennale, with new perspectives from Emily Potter.
Buildings & Living Things: Garden House, explores how a building – Garden House – can sustain life and share space with other living things, as an integrated part of an ongoing project of environmental repair on Bunurong land.
Contributors to these books include
- Emily Potter, Professor in Literary Studies and Associate Head of School (Research) at Deakin University
- Catherine Murphy, director of the Master of Urban Planning and Design at Monash University
- Nina Bassoli, architect, researcher, curator and coordinator of the Architecture, Urban Regeneration and City sector at Milan Triennale; and
- Rory Gardiner, photographer
To celebrate the launch of these two new books, join their authors Louise Wright, Mauro Baracco and Linda Tegg in a short discussion of their learnings from these various strands of research, art practice, curation, and architectural experimentation.
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Louise Wright and Mauro Baracco, architects, both PhD, are directors of Baracco+Wright Architects (B+W, est. 2004) and their research laboratory B+W+. They both teach and research. Louise is a Practice Professor at MADA (Monash Art Design & Architecture.) Mauro was an Associate Professor at RMIT (1996-2020) and Visiting Professor at Polimi Milan; he is currently University Fellow to RMIT and Teaching Associate at MADA.
Their interest in the local has developed from historical and cultural to include ecological relationships of the built and unbuilt environment. They are interested in a role for architecture that can extend its relationship with the natural world towards one that considers all life. They build, unbuild, rearrange and support buildings and living things. Recently they have been researching the role of reuse and removal of built form in the reimagining of the city.
Linda Tegg is a Melbourne-based Artist who makes work out of inhabiting and reconfiguring the conditions of spectatorship. Within her immersive installations, images, plants, animals, and the built environment are brought into unlikely proximities to generate new points of orientation and relation. She collaborates widely, working across cultural institutions and public space. She was a co-creative director of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale with Baracco+Wright Architects, and Artist in Residence at the School of Geography at The University of Melbourne (2018). In 2014 she grew ‘Grasslands’ at the State Library of Victoria with Horticulturalist John Delpratt. Linda is a Samstag Scholar (2014), and Georges Mora Fellow (2012). She has degrees from SAIC, The University of Melbourne, and RMIT University, and is a PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne.
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Accessible bathroom, All gender bathroom, Wheelchair accessibleJoin Bookshop Uro for the launch of two new books that explore ecological renewal through architecture and other forms of creative practice.
In 2018, Baracco+Wright curated the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, with the collaboration of artist Linda Tegg. Their exhibition was based on a living installation, Grasslands Repair, that presented more than 60 species of Western Plains Grasslands plants from South-East Australia. By covering the floor of the pavilion with these plants, it explored the relationship between architecture and the natural environment, especially with regards to the ecologically sensitive landscape of Australia and the cultural importance of the land for its Indigenous people.
Baracco+Wright have now followed up this work with two publications further examining the questions it prompted: Knowing and Unknowing: The Lives of Repair, co-authored with Linda Tegg, and Buildings & Living Things: Garden House. Both books are focussed on the interrelation between human and non-human species.
In Knowing and Unknowing: The Lives of Repair, discussions revolve around stories of ecological and bureaucratic evolution following the Biennale, with new perspectives from Emily Potter.
Buildings & Living Things: Garden House, explores how a building – Garden House – can sustain life and share space with other living things, as an integrated part of an ongoing project of environmental repair on Bunurong land.
Contributors to these books include
- Emily Potter, Professor in Literary Studies and Associate Head of School (Research) at Deakin University
- Catherine Murphy, director of the Master of Urban Planning and Design at Monash University
- Nina Bassoli, architect, researcher, curator and coordinator of the Architecture, Urban Regeneration and City sector at Milan Triennale; and
- Rory Gardiner, photographer
To celebrate the launch of these two new books, join their authors Louise Wright, Mauro Baracco and Linda Tegg in a short discussion of their learnings from these various strands of research, art practice, curation, and architectural experimentation.
Participants
Louise Wright and Mauro Baracco, architects, both PhD, are directors of Baracco+Wright Architects (B+W, est. 2004) and their research laboratory B+W+. They both teach and research. Louise is a Practice Professor at MADA (Monash Art Design & Architecture.) Mauro was an Associate Professor at RMIT (1996-2020) and Visiting Professor at Polimi Milan; he is currently University Fellow to RMIT and Teaching Associate at MADA.
Their interest in the local has developed from historical and cultural to include ecological relationships of the built and unbuilt environment. They are interested in a role for architecture that can extend its relationship with the natural world towards one that considers all life. They build, unbuild, rearrange and support buildings and living things. Recently they have been researching the role of reuse and removal of built form in the reimagining of the city.
Linda Tegg is a Melbourne-based Artist who makes work out of inhabiting and reconfiguring the conditions of spectatorship. Within her immersive installations, images, plants, animals, and the built environment are brought into unlikely proximities to generate new points of orientation and relation. She collaborates widely, working across cultural institutions and public space. She was a co-creative director of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale with Baracco+Wright Architects, and Artist in Residence at the School of Geography at The University of Melbourne (2018). In 2014 she grew ‘Grasslands’ at the State Library of Victoria with Horticulturalist John Delpratt. Linda is a Samstag Scholar (2014), and Georges Mora Fellow (2012). She has degrees from SAIC, The University of Melbourne, and RMIT University, and is a PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne.