Application deadline: 15 December 2013
The School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney has over the past three years developed a Course in Interior and Spatial Design centred around critical spatial thinking, performative practice and narrative space.
Currently led by Professor Thea Brejzek, the program is looking to expand its faculty and research capacity by offering two new positions in the program and launching a new Practice-informed Research (PiR) PhD program with the University of Vienna.
Faculty positions
Expressions of interest are sought from research active academics interested in joining the program in 2014. In the first instance, please write to the Head of School Professor Lawrence Wallen in order to receive full details of the upcoming appointments. [email protected]
PhD program
Applications are invited to join a joint PhD program at University of Technology, Sydney UTS and University of Vienna.
PhD program title: Critical Spatial Thinking: Design and Performative Practice
The School of Design’s Interior and Spatial Program within the Faculty of DAB at UTS and the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna invites applications to undertake a joint PhD (Co-tutelle) in the area of Critical Spatial Thinking: Design and Performative Practice, commencing early 2014.
This joint PhD program brings together candidates and leading academics from the UTS School of Design and the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna in a transdisciplinary research cluster. The program leads to a joint PhD degree and is managed and taught at both universities. Working across the disciplines of spatial design, architecture, theatre, exhibition and media, the program engages existing design and artistic competencies and applies them directly to questions of Design and Performative Practice.
PhD proposals must relate to one or several of the program’s main research areas:
– Critical Practices: Performance, Design and the Politics of Space
– Sharing Space: Collaborative Practices in Curating, Design and Performance
– Staging the City: Performative Strategies and the Activation of Urban Space
Successful candidates spend periods of time at both universities. The current academic leads at the respective institutions are Prof. Thea Brejzek and Prof. Lawrence Wallen (UTS) and Prof. Wolfgang Greisenegger and Prof. Brigitte Marschall (University of Vienna).
Applications close on 15 December 2013.
Contact:
Professor Thea Brejzek, [email protected]
