Professor Peter Downton
Emeritus Professor
Details
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College: Design and Social Context
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Department: Design and Social Context
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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peter.downton@rmit.edu.au
Research fields
- 3301 Architecture
- 3604 Performing arts
- 3605 Screen and digital media
Supervisor projects
- Joy, delight, simultaneity: Stepping, side stepping and between stepping with architecture
- 2 Mar 2015
- Negotiating Distance: Making Place Through and in a Practice of Landscape Architecture
- 7 Aug 2014
- The heavens and the heartbeat: The telescope and the observer, as sights of revelation, awe and wonder.
- 1 Mar 2005
Teaching interests
.Design research, specifically inquiring through designing, the production of knowing and knowledge through designing, the knowing of making, the comparative epistemologies of design and other fields, the role of models in design and other areas of inquiry
Research interests
Architecture, Design Practice and Management, Philosophy, Art Theory and Criticism, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Visual Arts and Crafts
