ADAnow 2022
A look inside our powerhouse of creativity and collaboration.
About ADAnow
ADAnow 2022 is an opportunity to celebrate the creativity, collaboration and work of the staff, students and alumni of UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture.
Returning in its second year, ADAnow boasts a huge month-long program of events, videos, podcasts, music, stories, exhibitions and more. Navigate through the site to attend an event – online or in person – watch, listen, read or learn.
Events
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UTZON Lecture Collective
UNSW Built Environment's UTZON lecture series features industry experts and academics whose inspiring work shapes the world's future cities for the benefit of all people and the planet.
Launched in 2010 by architect and UNSW alum Jan Utzon, the son of Danish architect and designer of the Sydney Opera House Jørn Utzon AC, the series features more than 50 Australian and international speakers.
Design the future you want
UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture has made important changes to our undergraduate degrees so we’re providing our students with a better experience and skills that are going to be most in need in the future. Dean, Professor Claire Annesley highlights how we’re giving students the freedom and support to design the future they want.
What is mRNA?
mRNA is the key ingredient in COVID-19 vaccines. Associate Professor John McGhee and his team at UNSW’s 3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab have created a visually immersive 3D animation to explore mRNA’s role in our cells – and to show how it helps fight COVID-19.
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Sky pirates: A very human problem
UNSW 'Making Virtual Reality Documentaries' students explore Australia's silver gulls and how human behaviour impacts this protected species in its remote island breeding grounds.
Exhaustion: A poetic monologue
Produced by Dr Kerryn Drysdale from the Centre for Social Research in Health, this film is based on research from the ‘Identifying factors that improve the health of prisoners who inject drugs’ project. The project examined the lived experiences of ex-prisoners who inject drugs, to capture the interrelationships between ex-prisoners’ multifaceted needs.
Contemporary Art Explained: Vernon Ah Kee
Dr Tim Gregory discusses the teaching of English as colonial violence and how Vernon Ah Kee’s artwork, cantchant, uses English as a weapon to confront settlers.
10 Minute Genius | The other sex talk
Sex education for kids still covers the same narrow range of topics. But according to Emma A Jane, it’s vital that the birds and the bees talk cover so much more than the baby making, the man parts and the money shots.
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Glass Gardens, A digital refuge
Sonya Lifschitz, internationally renowned pianist and Artistic Director of UNSW’s New Music Collective (NMC), invites you to immerse yourself in an interactive digital garden.
In times of deep heartache, where do we turn? Where do we shelter? For Sonya, as an artist and music lecturer – it’s in art, music, poetry and nature. In this digital sonic-visual work created during Sydney’s lockdowns, the students of UNSW’s NMC have done exactly that. The ensemble, whose vision is to inspire and provoke musicians and listeners to examine, broaden and redefine the boundaries of music and the musical experience, have collected objects, sounds, words, poems and images to weave a world, a refuge, a place to shelter – a glass garden.
Digital Rivers
Float on down the river. Sometimes there’s an easy flow, sometimes a rapid pace. Welcome to a playlist recorded and performed by UNSW's Advanced Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra.
It’ll take you on a journey shaped by the musicians’ experiences of Sydney’s Covid lockdowns. Recorded in their homes while in isolation, the students found rewarding connections through online collaboration and their music, a digital river allowing their ideas to flow and combine.
Abolition Futures
‘Abolition Futures’ is a standalone podcast episode made by Andrew Brooks, Liam Grealy and Astrid Lorange, co-facilitators of the Infrastructural Inequalities research network. Infrastructural Inequalities examines the unjust distribution of resources, amenities and opportunities that shape our society and asks how we might intervene in the reproduction of inequality.
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