Dr Sean Pickersgill

Senior Lecturer: Architecture School of Art, Architecture and Design

City West Campus (K3-14)
tel +61 8 830 20653
fax +61 8 830 20211

email Robert.Pickersgill@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

Research

Research themes

Scarce resources
Transforming societies

Research focus

Architecture
Cultural Studies
Design
Design Practice and Management
Performing Arts and Creative Writing

Highlights

Currently I am exploring the use and implications of game engines in the ontology of digital architecture. This has emerged from a Teaching and Learning Grant for 2004, and a Divisional Research Performance Grant in 2005 that has enabled us to create a mod of a commercial game, and to design and run an elective in Game Design.,I completed a PhD in artefact and thesis at RMIT. This focusses on the interrelationship between aspects of German critical theory and the idea of renovation/redemption in architecture.

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below.

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Chapters

Year	Output
2013	Pickersgill, S 2013, 'Architecture's new worlds', in P Gadanho & S Oliveira (eds), Once Upon a Place: Architecture and Fiction, Caleidoscopio, Lisbon, pp. 225-237.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2017	Pickersgill, S 2017, 'Possibilia: possible worlds and the limitless in architecture', Footprint: Delft architecture theory journal, no. 20, pp. 71-83. Open access 1
2017	Pickersgill, S 2017, 'Super Architects and dream factories', Interstices, vol. 17, pp. 16-32. Open access
2012	Frichot, H, Preston, J, Spooner, M, Pickersgil, S, Kovar, Z, Hann, C & Evans, M 2012, 'An antipodean imaginary for architecture+philosophy: fictocritical approaches to design practice research', Footprint, vol. 10, no. 10/11, pp. 69-96. Open access
2012	Pickersgill, S 2012, 'An architectural singularity: digital monsters of architecture', Ultima thule: journal of architectural imagination, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-18. Open access

Conferences

Year	Output
2016	Pickersgill, S & Rameezdeen, R 2016, 'Onsite: new methods for the teaching and learning of introductory construction', in N Singhaputtangkul (ed.), AUBEA 2016: Proceedings of the 40th Australasian Universities Building Education Association Annual Conference: Radical innovation in the built environment, Central Queensland University, pp. 870-878. Open access
2013	Pickersgill, S 2013, 'Digital ontology and the architectural monstrous', in JP Sousa & JP Xavier (eds), 1st eCAADe Regional International Workshop, University of Porto, pp. 71-82. Open access
2011	Thomas, BH, Von Itzstein, GS, Vernik, R, Porter, S, Marner, MR, Smith, RT, Broecker, M, Close, B, Walker, S, Pickersgill, S, Kelly, S & Schumacher, P 2011, 'Spatial augmented reality support for design of complex physical environments', IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), IEEE, pp. 588-593. 6
2010	Pickersgill, S 2010, 'Techniques of digital imagination: vertigo', in M Chapman & M Ostwald (eds), Society of Architectural Historians of Australia & New Zealand Conference, Society of Architectural Historians of Australia & New Zealand, pp. 335-340.

Reports

Year	Output
2017	Newton, S, Lowe, R, Pickersgill, S, Hardie, M, Srivastava, A, Rameezdee, R & Zillante, G 2017, Situational eLearning: A crowdsourced approach to the definition and assessment of key practice-ready academic outcomes, Australian Government, Office for Learning and Teaching, Department of Education and Training, Australia. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
KTH Royal Institute of Technology	SWEDEN
Private Individual	AUSTRALIA
RMIT University	AUSTRALIA
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
Western Sydney University	AUSTRALIA

Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

Architectural Design,Theory and Historiography of Architecture,Digital Architecture,Game Theory and Design,Philosophy and Art Theory

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Nintendo, Japan and longing: videogames embodying and communicating cultural desires	Completed

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Dr Sean Pickersgill

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