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Appendix B
f. Observations and Analysis of Cardiff Chimera Case Study
Staff Profiles
The following profiles illustrate the variety of academic backgrounds, ages,
interests and attitudes of the contributors which lent to the diversity of
perspectives and variation of teaching methods. The contributors served to lead
the students in new directions; exposing them to new ideas which at times caused
confusion, but ultimately stimulated creativity. Each contributor guided the
students towards different ideas which provoked the students’ determination to
champion their specific design ideas.
Professor Richard Goodwin, College of Fine Art, University New South Wales,
Australia
Practicing for over 30 years as an internationally exhibiting artist and architect,
Goodwin has sustained a prolific professional practice of art and architecture. His
work, ranging from freeway infrastructure, to gallery installation, to “parasitic”
architecture / public artworks, is held at major collections including: the Art
Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Nuremburg Museum and
numerous Regional Gallery and private collections.
Winner of numerous prestigious art awards for his work, Prof. Goodwin is one of
Australia’s most prominent sculptors. Concerned with the ‘neighbourhood’, rather
than design aspects of urban planning, he adheres to the notion that a city must
be a functional social neighbourhood for its inhabitants.
Originally trained as in Architecture, Goodwin graduated in 1977 then continued
to gain a Master of Architecture in 2000. In 2008 he was awarded his PhD from
the University of New South Wales, and is currently a Professor of Design Studies
at the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts (COFA), and remains
0.5, enabling him to practice within his own studio through which he continues to
exhibit and to pursue public art and “parasitic” architectural projects.
Goodwin established the Porosity Studio at COFA in 1996. The studio blurs the
boundaries between art and architecture and uses the city as a laboratory. Since
2004 the studios were run as intensive, international, multi-disciplinary
workshops. In 2007, the British Council began sponsoring students from around
the world to participate in a series of 3 Porosity Studios within the United
Kingdom because of the quality of the work produced and diversity of networks
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