AFTER TYPE CHAPTER 2:
RMIT DOCKLANDS MEDIA PRECINCT
'A.T. Chapter 2: RMIT Docklands Media Precinct' was the second iteration of an industry-partnered Master of Architecture Design Studio (Sem2, 2020) with RMIT's Policy Strategy Impact Team contributing to RMIT's Location Strategy initiative. The studio explored three threads of investigations; Typological Procedural Explorations (Ty.Pro.logy) and Tertiary Learning Environments brought together to stimulate design discourse for RMIT’s Docklands Media Precinct.
New in this studio was the focus on game engines and gaming - particularly taking inspiration from highly immersive MMOs or Massive Multiplayer Online worlds and how these platforms could allow us an alternative viewpoint and impact in the way we design, develop and materialise ideas.
The After Type Chapter is a mechanism to investigate, surface and develop critical design techniques through type and typology - not simply as an analytical tool.
The studio ENGAGED with speculative media and critical communicative formats for architecture to include game engines, film and animation as alternative tools for design development, production and dissemination. We ASPIRED TO take the ideas and propositions generated from the design studio and encode them into the mediums of popular culture.
As a speculative overlay, students tackleD future-centric speculations on the future of tertiary institutions particularly in the current pandemic climate. Through game engines and taking cues from MMO, we BUILT and exploreD virtual worlds as a tool for design development, critical representation, and communication of final propositions. We exploreD how our ideas and projects cOULD be critically communicated through highly immersive, experiential, engaging and imaginative virtual worlds whilst being simultaneously didactic and polemic.
AT2 STUDENTS: Kun Dai, Owen Fisher, Lachlan Grant, Maia Heysen, Tianyi Huang, Youjia Huang, Kimika Koike, Thomas Lackner, Jacob Lam, Siqi Li, Jason Manolitsas, Carl Mordaunt, Deborah Morris, Akshayan Parameswaran, Mitchell Scholz, Thanouk Sok, Yuqi Song, Tianhao Wang, Austin Zhao, Zixuan Zhao
STUDIO LEADERS: RMIT ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE LECTURER PATRICK MACASAET AND VEI TAN
