Urban Islands 2007 is organised by Olivia Hyde, Joanne Jakovich and Tom Rivard, with the support of the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Sydney.
Olivia Hyde
was educated in Sydney and London and is a graduate of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London. She is an associate at the Sydney office of Bligh Voller Nield Architecture and teaches final year design at both the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. Olivia has worked in Hong Kong and London with Sir Norman Foster and Partners, and in Spain, Malaysia and the US where she was awarded a teaching fellowship by the University of Michigan. Her design studios focus on the architectural potential of art practice, with a particular interest in full scale and installation based explorations. She is a founding member of Altogether Elsewhere and co-coordinator of the Urban Islands program.
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Joanne Jakovich
is an interactive architect and researcher specialising in interactive spaces spanning art, architecture and urbanism. Her work builds a thesis of engagement in which human and computational participation shape the development of sustainable systems for inhabitation that is urban, architectural, or digitally mediated. Creative outcomes include interactive soundspaces, online urban planning simulations, and urban development frameworks. She has exhibited in Japan, Australia, Taiwan and the Netherlands and produced international projects integrating urbanism, architecture and interactive art. She graduated from the University of Tokyo on a Japan Ministry for Education Scholarship and is pursuing a PhD in Architecture at the University of Sydney holding a CRC for Construction Innovation Scholarship and University of Sydney Postgraduate Award. She is the editor of last year's Urban Islands publication "Cuttings: Urban Islands vol 1" published by the Sydney University Press. |
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Thomas Rivard
is director of Lean Productions, a multi-disciplinary practice making buildings, objects and fables, and dedicated to bringing together all manner of collaborators in the common (and uncommon) pursuit of the fantastic, the impossible and the improbable. He received a Bachelors Degree in Art History and Design from Dartmouth College and a masters of architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught architecture at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney, as well as currently co-coordinating the Urban Islands program. He is a founding member of altogetherelsewhere, a collective of artists and producers dedicated to re-imagining the potential links between provocative cultural acts and the urban environments in which they thrive. As such, he is currently working to bring a calendar of events, performances and installations to Cockatoo Island. He divides his time.
www.leanproductions.com |
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