Online videos for teaching and learning

Did you know the Library offers many streaming video resources that include Architecture and Design videos? They are available on- and off-campus and can be accessed from the Library’s Databases A-Z page or the Architecture and Design library subject guides. Online video resources include:

Art and architecture in video (Alexander Street)

Contains over 500 hours of documentaries and interviews about various art forms, including

Making Futures

21-22 September 2017, Plymouth, UK

Making Futures seeks to be broad and inclusive, and invites a diverse range of response, from artists, craftspeople, designer-makers, Fab Lab and maker-movement enthusiasts, campaigners and activists, curators, historians and theorists.

Making Futures is a research platform exploring contemporary craft and maker movements as 'change agents' within 21st century society. Convinced of the transformative potential of small-scale making and its capacity to contribute to new progressive futures, our purpose is

New resource - Gartner

The Resources and Education portfolios have partnered to bring you Gartner, the leading provider of research and analysis on the use of information technology. Gartner’s extensive database includes research findings on a wide range of IT-related topics, including analyses, opinions, trends, leading practices

She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation

She Ji is a peer-reviewed, trans-disciplinary design journal with a focus on economics and innovation, design process and design thinking. She Ji is fully open access. Our mission is to enable design

CoDesign special issue: Understanding, Capturing and Assessing Value in Collaborative Design Research

In this special issue, we seek to discuss how the value of design research programmes can be understood, communicated, and inform work as it progresses. Funders typically evaluate research according to impact that can be readily described in economic or societal terms. Whilst this indeed demonstrates value, it does not completely capture forms of value that collaborative design research produces, because often they are less amenable to measurement or do not produce quantifiable results within or soon after the funded period.

Design research is apt to be collaborative, involving diverse stakeholder groups and forms of knowledge, leading to outcomes that range in nature from discrete products and services, to new experiences, processes and infrastructures. This diversity and connectedness is a core strength of the discipline, but also a challenge in articulating its value to assessors, and

IDEA Journal 17 - call for abstracts

IDEA journal_17 DARK SPACE_ the interior

This edition of the IDEA Journal: DARK SPACE_the interior calls for built or unbuilt projects/speculations/theoretical inquiry/design inquiry

• Disruption to the realities and perceptions of (interior?) space
• Interiors that catalyse symbioses (interior exterior)
• Extreme interiors that confront the human sensorium, eg confined environments, isolated environments, highly sensuous environments
• Experimental Interiors that manipulate the human sensorium
• Historical precedents of Interiors that engage the human sensorium
• Future projections of Interiors that are affecting/shifting/changing the human sensorium
• Physiological and or psychological analyses of Interiors that affect symbioses (interior exterior)

Registration of Interest:

We  invite interdisciplinary collaborations, calling on academics, practitioners and students

New books in the library - March 2017

Some new books in the library are listed below. Please send any purchase suggestions to Tristan, or Vivian at the Brunswick library for Graphic Design.

Robin Boyd: Spatial Continuity.

"Australian architect Robin Boyd (1919–1971) advocated tirelessly for the voice of Australian architects so that there could be an architecture that might speak to Australian conditions and sensibilities.His legacy continues in the work of contemporary Australian architects yet also prompts a way forward for architecture particularly in relationship to the landscapes they inhabit through a quality of continuous space found in his work where the buildings are spatially reliant and sympathetic to the places they occupy.

A selection of 22 projects are documented comprehensively in this book for the first time. This slice through Boyd’s body of work reveals a gifted, complex and contemporary thinker." (Routledge)

People cities: the life and legacy of Jan Gehl
" "A good city is like a good party - you stay for longer than you plan," says Danish architect, Jan Gehl. He believes that good architecture is not about form, but about the interaction between form and life. Over the last 50 years, Gehl has changed the way that we think about architecture and city planning - moving from the Modernist separation of uses to a human-scale approach inviting people to use their cities." 

Graphic design rants and raves: bon mots on persuasion, entertainment, education, culture, and practice

"Design is everywhere. Graphic design enters into everything. This is the scope of designer Steven Heller's latest essay anthology that covers the spectrum of graphic design and related art and culture. Looking at design as practice, language, culture, and power, each of the forty-plus essays is a self contained story".

Yona Friedman: drawings and models: 1945-2015
"Catalog of an exhibition held at the Power Station of Art, Shanghai, May 16-Aug. 2015" 

IE: Studio - 'Interior Edges'

IE:Studio, a new resource to be published by Interior Educators (IE), is designed to enable those within, and associated with, the Interior Educators network to share ideas, experience and best practice concerning the teaching of the interiors discipline, focused on the design studio. 

Each issue will be themed. Issue 1 addresses the theme “Interior Edges”, examining the multi-disciplinary context within which interior design and architecture can be considered (see below for further details, including how you can make a contribution to this first issue).

Each edition of IE:Studio will comprise approximately six illustrated texts of 1,500 to 2,000