IMAGING: The Museum Made Digital Master of Architecture Studio CDE, MSD Studio leader: Ben Waters
A collaboration between MSD and the Ian Potter Museum of Art; with Classics and Archaeology consultation from Assoc Prof Andrew Jamieson in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Arts.
This Master of Architecture studio engaged the Museum as site and selected items from the University’s Classics and Archaeology Collection as an archival, curatorial and object-based learning opportunity.
Using image capture technology as a lens to critically observe objects and spaces, students developed skills in image making, digital scanning and point cloud analytics, photogrammetry, 3D printing processes and curatorial practices.
Students visited the Museum at several points in the semester for this studio, for a variety of learning experiences. This included a tour of the building; a Lidar scanning exercise of the museum's façade; OBL sessions on selected Collection objects with Andrew Jamieson and Potter Collections staff and a lecture on curatorial models of practice and collection storage and display. Potter staff from academic engagement and collections participated in mid semester and final crit sessions.
Students' final presentations exhibited curated scanned objects in designed spaces located in the 'real' and 'virtual' space of The Ian Potter Art Museum.