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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
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About me

About me

School of Art, Architecture and Design

Setting the pace in its field with professional artists, designers and theorists driving ever-evolving teaching and research.

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Experience

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

  • Bachelor of Arts University of Western Australia

  • Bachelor of Architecture University of Western Australia

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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.
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Projects

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  • Situational eLearning: a crowdsourcing approach to the definition and assessment of key practice-ready academic outcomes, Office for Learning and Teaching Grants - Innovation & Development, 01/01/2014 - 03/08/2015

  • Situational eLearning: a crowdsourcing approach to the definition and assessment of key practice-ready academic outcomes, Office for Learning and Teaching Grants - Innovation & Development, 01/01/2014 - 03/08/2015

  • The Bonython Collector: An investigation into the architectural, urban and planning opportunities of Stormwater Harvesting and Infrastructural Investment in the Adelaide Parklands, Integrated Design Commission SA, 29/05/2012 - 31/08/2012

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Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below.

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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

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2017

Pickersgill, S 2017, 'Possibilia: possible worlds and the limitless in architecture', Footprint: Delft architecture theory journal, no. 20, pp. 71-83.

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2017

Pickersgill, S 2017, 'Super Architects and dream factories', Interstices, vol. 17, pp. 16-32.

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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.

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2012

Pickersgill, S 2012, 'An architectural singularity: digital monsters of architecture', Ultima thule: journal of architectural imagination, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-18.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Current research & 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.
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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
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Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

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

Courses I teach and/or co-ordinate

  • ARCH 4018 Theories and History of Architecture (2019)
  • ARCH 4018 Theories and History of Architecture (2018)
  • ARCH 3053 Architecture and Modernity (2019)
  • ARCH 3053 Architecture and Modernity (2018)
  • ARCH 5044 Advanced Design Media PG (2019)
  • ARCH 5044 Advanced Design Media PG (2018)
  • ARCH 4008 Advanced Architectural Design Studio (Construction) (2018)
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Supervisions from 2010 shown

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