PRS Australia PhD Examination - Ian Nazareth (School of Architecture and Urban Design - RMIT University)

Join us for the PhD examination of School of Architecture and Urban Design candidate, Ian Nazareth.

9:30am - 11:30am, Tuesday 21 October

form follows f(x)

We converse in .html, traverse a hybrid city and live a meta-reality. Our senses now glide naturally between physical artefacts and virtual avatars, between something real and something represented, between particles and pixels. Clarity and allusion. Matter and event.

Through interrogation of his practice, TRAFFIC, Ian’s research advances the argument that contemporary urban experience is increasingly produced through three overlapping techno-spatial paradigms: the Incumbent City, the Service City, and the Meta City.

The projects reimagine the city as a programmable system governed by processes, services, and ecosystems. Drawing on mathematical and computational notions of the function - f(x) - to suggest a city scripted by executable logic.

The research demonstrates how digital infrastructures inscribe themselves within urban form, proposing a conceptual toolkit for rethinking the city as both platform and interface - an evolving threshold between material reality and abstract operations.

Please note no entry will be permitted after commencement of this examination. Please aim to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. 

RMIT Design Hub Gallery
Building 100, Level 2, Project Room 1
Corner Victoria & Swanston St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Access
This exam will be recorded, but not live-streamed.
The Level 2 Project Spaces are accessible via lifts from the street entry located at the corner of Victoria & Swanston Streets.