2011

September

UTS Design Phd Candidate in World Habitat Award 2011 Winning Team
21 Sep, 2011
UTS Design PhD Candidate, Christian Tietz was recently part of the team that won this years prestigious World Habitat Award 2011.

Alana Clifton-Cunningham and Cecilia Heffer in Tamworth Textile Triennial
21 Sep, 2011
Featuring work by Alana Clifton-Cunningham and Cecilia Heffer, the Tamworth Textile Triennial: Sensorial Loop is a survey exhibition of contemporary textiles within Australia.

Mark Titmarsh’s ‘On the Beach’ Magazine in Dutch Exhibition
21 Sep, 2011
On 10 September, an exhibition of Australian art periodicals was held at Kunstverein, Amsterdam and included ‘On the Beach’ a postmodern art journal that Mark co-edited in the 1980s.

August

Peter McNeil’s ‘Shoes’ Book Reissued in Paperback
1 Aug, 2011
The award-winning anthology, Shoes: History From Sandals to Sneakers, edited by Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil has been reissued in paperback.

July

UTS: Symposium Explores the Australian Housing Affordability Crisis
29 Jul, 2011
With a backdrop of Australia having the least affordable housing in the world, the University of Technology, Sydney’s NextGen research initiative is holding a symposium on Monday 8 August to investigate options for the next generation of affordable or social urban Australian housing.

Can fashion be art?
27 Jul, 2011
Eminent fashion scholar Valerie Steele, will be speaking at the Powerhouse Museum on Wednesday 3 August, about the relationship between art and fashion, explaining why they are on different planes.

Designers and Industry Collaborate to Propose Improved Traffic Safety
23 Jul, 2011
Inviting visitors to make, critique and curate new designs for fluorescent traffic control bollards, Australian artist and designer Jane Gavan's new exhibition, Factory as Studio opens at UTS's DAB LAB on Wednesday 3 August.

June

Designing Out Crime research positions available
1 Jun, 2011
The Designing Out Crime research centre (DOC) is seeking expressions of interest from students considering enrolling in a research degree at UTS.

May

Old Made New Again: tradition merges with cutting-edge technology in interactive lace artwork
25 May, 2011
Often considered old-fashioned, contemporary lace is anything but, as artists Cecilia Heffer and Bert Bongers reveal in their new collaborative artwork, InterLace.

Vicki Karaminas voted onto board of Popular Culture / American Culture Association
18 May, 2011
Associate Professor Vicki Karaminas has been voted onto the governing board of the Popular Culture / American Culture Association (PCA/ACA).

Alana Clifton-Cunningham Presents at ‘get Knitted’ Knitwear Symposium in Auckland
6 May, 2011
In April, Alana Clifton-Cunningham presented at the international symposium 'get Knitted', which was hosted by the Textile and Design Lab at the Auckland University of Technology, NZ.

April

New Exhibition Highlights the Art and Process of Writing by Hand
24 Apr, 2011
For many, the pleasure and process of physically writing by hand has largely been replaced by the ease and convenience of typing with keyboard and computer. But for Zoë Sadokierski, who hand wrote the entire 70,000 words of her doctoral thesis, nothing can replace the age-old process of scribing by hand.

Mark Titmarsh Presents at Visuality 2011 Conference in Lithuania
17 Apr, 2011
Earlier this month, Mark Titmarsh presented a paper entitled "Thinking the Phenomenology of Image through the Poetics of Contemporary Expanded Painting" at the conference Visuality 2011: Interactions Of Creativity And Image.

UTS: Design teams with Housing NSW to revitalise Mt Druitt
8 Apr, 2011
Housing NSW has joined forces with UTS and UWS in a unique community regeneration project to empower and strengthen the Mt Druitt community and reduce crime in the area. The Community and Environment Project (CEP) is a joint partnership between Housing NSW, the University of Technology (UTS) Built Environment – Designing Out Crime Research Centre and the University of Western Sydney (UWS) Social Work Unit.

Designing Out Crime welcomes two new visiting academics
5 Apr, 2011
Dr Ilse Luyk- de Visser and Christelle Harkema visiting academics to UTS Designing Out Crime

Designing Out Crime hosts Research Collaboration Forum
5 Apr, 2011
Designing Out Crime Research Collaboration Forum 24 March 2011. Over 50 academics and researchers from Censoc, CIIC, ISF, IML, RIO as well as the faculties of Business, DAB, FASS, FEIT, Law and Science participating.

February

UTS: Design, Architecture and Building Research Recognised as World Standard
14 Feb, 2011
Research by the Design, Architecture and Building Faculty at the University of Technology, Sydney has been rated as world standard in the recent Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) framework.

2010

November

Mike Day at ilight Marina Bay
9 Nov, 2010
Lecturer Mike Day was a recent guest of the Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority

Mark Titmarsh Presents at International Transdiciplinary Imaging Conference
10 Nov, 2010
Mark Titmarsh presented a paper on Expanded Painting at the First International Conference on Transdiciplinary Imaging at the Intersections Between Art, Science and Culture, held at Artspace, Sydney from 5-6 November.

Peter McNeil's Students Going Places
26 Nov, 2010
The PhD students in the School of Design are out and about.

October

ARC Discovery and Linkage Grants
26 Oct, 2010
Congratulations to Heather Macdonald and Tom Barker for their ARC grant successes.

September

Five new scholarships available for DAB PhD candidates
10 Sep, 2010
As part of its ambitious program of research expansion, UTS has created five special PhD scholarships for 2011 for candidiates undertaking research in DAB.

Death, Avatars and narrative design explored at the UTS: Sydney International Animation Festival Symposium.
2 Sep, 2010
The question of whether computer-generated animation is concealing genuine emotions is one of the issues to be explored at the UTS: Sydney International Animation Festival Symposium. Visiting from Bordeaux University, Associate Professor Pierre Floquet, one of the most respected animation academics in the world, will deliver a keynote address at the symposium on Friday 24 September at the University of Technology, Sydney.

August

Surry Hills project website launch and symposium
10 Aug, 2010

Third Year VisComm students contribute innovative responses to the Phosphorus Recovery project
30 Aug, 2010
The Phosphorus Recovery Project is an Australia-first action research project led by the Institute for Sustainable Futures.

June

Traces - the road as canvas
2 Jun, 2010
Seeing road surfaces as a canvas, interaction professor Bert Bongers has developed an exhibition which invites the viewer to discover the non-obvious in our surroundings. Traces uses imagery of car tyre skid marks and marks made by workers on pavements.

May

Congratulations to new Design PhDs
10 May, 2010
Congratulations to School of Design PhD graduates.

Best paper win for Architecture
11 May, 2010
Gavin Perin and PhD candidate Linda Matthews won best paper at the recent international conference- ARTECH 2010 Conference.

Kirsty Beilharz's Diamond Quills to premier
3 May, 2010
Kirsty Beilharz's new composition for bass clarinet, cello and piano, Diamond Quills, will be premiered by Charisma Ensemble at the Sydney Conservatorium.

March

Call for papers: UTS: Sydney International Animation Festival Symposium - Animation Histories and Futures
4 Mar, 2010
As part of the 2010 UTS: Sydney International Animation Festival, a symposium will be held to explore animation's contemporary expansion. To be held at the University of Technology, Sydney on Friday 24 September, entries are now being accepted.

February

Peter McNeil Awarded Grant with Humanities in the European Research Scheme
17 Feb, 2010
Peter McNeil, along with five other Principal Investigators and the Project Leader Professor Evelyn Welch, has been awarded the sum of 985, 000 EURO from the Humanities in the European Research Area: 'Humanities as a Source of Creativity and Innovation' Scheme.

2009

November

DAB Well Presented at OzCHI
23 Nov, 2009
HCI conference to be well attended by DAB staff.

Lizzie Muller Guest Speaks in Melbourne
22 Nov, 2009
LIzzie Mullerhas been invited to be guest speaker for a Curatorial Master Class taking place this week in Melbourne.

September

Design Lecturer Lizzie Muller Visiting Research Fellow in Linz
2 Sep, 2009
Lizzie Muller will be Visiting Research Fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Media Arts Research in Linz this month.

August

Estonian animation exclusive to UTS: Sydney International Animation Festival
6 Aug, 2009
While it might come as a surprise to many, Estonia's animation community ranks among the best in the world, and Sydneysiders will have an exclusive chance to experience some of the best at the UTS: Sydney International Animation Festival on Saturday 5 September.

July

Research Grant Requires Past Sydney Ragtrade Workers
17 Jul, 2009
DAB researchers require past ragtrade workers to participate in the oral histories component of the UTS Challenge Grant: Mapping Memory and History in UTS Environs; connecting fashion products and worker's lives in the industrial heritage of Sydney

June

New Publication Fashion In Fiction
10 Jun, 2009
Professor Peter McNeil and Dr Vicki Karaminas - in collaboration with Professor Catherine Cole from RMIT - have a new publication with Berg, Oxford and New York.

May

Kees Dorst releases Design Expertise
25 May, 2009
Kees Dorst recently launched his latest book Design Expertise at Melbourne's combined AIA National Conference and DesignEx.

Kirsty Beilharz Wins
25 May, 2009
Course Director for DAB's new Bachelor of Design in Photography and Situated Media Kirsty Beilharz, has had two big wins with research development grants.

School of (re)Design
20 May, 2009
There is a new vigour, a new revolution underway at the University of Technology, Sydney’s School of Design. And it's happening at the top, with Professor Lawrence Wallen taking the helm as new Head of School, and the appointment of four new international professors who, together, will drive design education and research in Australia to exciting new places.

Alison Gwilt Awarded at International Fashion Conference
11 May, 2009
The London College of Fashion: IFFTI Fashion and Well-Being conference brought together representatives from some of the world's leading fashion education and industry institutions - including Fashion & Textile's Course Director Alison Gwilt.

March

Peter McNeil Goes Global
20 Mar, 2009
Professor Peter McNeil represented UTS across the globe this summer, visiting New York, London and Stockholm and Asia in the name of design research.

Dr. Vasilije Kokotovich Wins Design Studies Award 2008
20 Mar, 2009
Dr Vasilije Kokotovich from the School of Design has won the Design Studies Award 2008 for his paper in Design Studies issue 29/1.

February

DAB to host the SEAM Symposium 2009: Spatial Phrases
21 Feb, 2009
To address the key question of "how can the convergence in thinking between the disciplines of dance, architecture and film provoke innovative contemporary practice?", UTS is hosting the SEAM Symposium 2009: Spatial Phrases

2008

December

Visual Communication's Jacqueline Gothe Awarded for her Research in Design
8 Dec, 2008
Visual Communication’s Jacqueline Gothe has been awarded the 2008 Shopfront Research Fellow to assist in her work on understanding relational design.

November

Fashion in Fiction Global Success
25 Nov, 2008
Following the success of last year's Fashion in Fiction International conference, Dr Vicki Karaminas, Professor Peter McNeil and Professor Catherine Cole (RMIT) have completed a book for Berg (U.K, N.Y) highlighting the function of clothing within fictional narratives, including film, television and advertising.

Nothing Mundane About It
25 Nov, 2008
The everyday computer desktop seems mundane to most, but Ian Gwilt's new media art exhibition title mundane_traces doesn't seem fair at all.

Head to Tamworth for a Lesson in Textiles
10 Nov, 2008
Work by Alana Clifton-Cunningham and Cecilia Heffer will be exhibited in this year's 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial from now till 18 January.

August

Val Horridge Speaks on YSL
5 Aug, 2008
Doing what she does best, Val Horridge will be talking fashion this Tuesday when she talks about Yves Saint Laurent at the Commermoration Week at the Alliance Francaise, Sydney.

October

Fashionable European speaking tour
13 Oct, 2008
In September and October Prof Peter McNeil was an invited keynote speaker at a national symposium to assess the state of fashion theory in Italy and Sweden.

August

A Successful Grant Win for Interior Design
15 Aug, 2008
Susan Sherringham has lead a successful cross faculty, cross institutional team, in applying for an ALTC ( Carrick) Priority Projects Grant.

This Years' Australian Learning & Teaching Council Presentation Ceremony Awards Dr Louise McWhinnie
7 Aug, 2008
Dr Louise McWhinnie, Associate Dean, Teaching & Learning attended the Australian Learning & Teaching Council annual presentation ceremony on Tuesday evening where she was awarded with a citation for "an outstanding contribution to Australian university teaching & learning" and a cheque for $10,000.

Recent Appointment for Dr Vicki Karaminas
5 Aug, 2008
Dr Vicki Karaminas has recently been appointed as the Chair for Subcultural Style and Identity of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association.

June

A Fashion Guide for Any Moment in Time
23 Jun, 2008
Know your fashion for any historical occassion with Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources .

The major multi-volume of work, edited by DAB’s Peter McNeil, brings together over 100 key essays and articles covering fashion with a historical focus.

May

Peter McNeil Promotes UTS Design Abroad
27 May, 2008
This month Peter McNeil burned a bigger campaign trail than the US democrats when he represented the faculty at universities across America, Sweden and the UK.

Chris Bowman Speaks Design in Chille
27 May, 2008
This week between May 27-30, Chris Bowman is off to Santiago, Chille to speak at the International Seminar New Opportunities for Technological Innovation.

April

School of Design and Architecture Come Together for UTS Research Grant
29 Apr, 2008
Academic staff from both the School of Design and the School of Architecture are set to work together on the UTS Challenge Grant (Blueprints for Sydney) 2008-9.

UTS and NSW Government to fight crime through design
29 Apr, 2008
In a first for New South Wales, UTS's Designing Out Crime Research Centre will help reduce and prevent crime through the design of products, buildings and environments. The three year project has received over $1 million funding from both the Attorney General’s Office and UTS.

January

A New Vision for Design Research at UTS
22 Jan, 2008
The University of Technology, Sydney will receive a new vision from 2008 with the addition of Dr Kees Dorst as Associate Dean, Research within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.

2007

June

Darrall Thompson awarded internal and external grant!
12 Jun, 2007
Senior Lecturer and Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Design, Darrall Thompson has been awarded the Carrick Priority Project grant and a grant from the UTS Learning and Teaching Performance fund.

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