Acting as an extension to our previous conversation on Hearing Architecture - I’ve invited Jocelyn Chiew to share with me about her experience in design education, and how these lessons have shaped her design with the people at City of Melbourne. At the end of the day, architecture is for the people - and those who will be using it deserve a voice in shaping the way we design it too.
*This episode was recorded in October 2024
Notes:
Hearing Architecture Podcast: “Jocelyn Chiew - Intersectionality in architecture” (3 Oct, 2023) - Conversation here.
Design Excellence Program
Music: 'Memory’ - Composed by Marissa Wong
*This conversation was conducted while the sun was warming the spring skies of Wurrundjeri Country.
About Jocelyn Chiew
Jocelyn Chiew is the Director of City Design at the City of Melbourne, and a registered Architect, Landscape Architect and Urban Designer. She is committed to inclusive and participatory design processes that contribute to safe, sustainable and place specific architectures. Jocelyn leads the city’s Design Excellence Program and and award winning City Design studio. She is Deputy Chair of the Melbourne Design Review Panel, convenor for the Design Excellence Advisory Committee and oversees The Excellent City Series – an annual program of design talks and workshops. Jocelyn’s current and past industry appointments include member Gender Equity Victoria Put Her Name on It Reference Group, member Victorian Design Review Panel, Fellow Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), former State and National Councillor Australian Institute of Architects and founding Chair AILA Gender Equity Working Group. Jocelyn is committed to nurturing the next generation of designers, has led design studios at Masters level, and continues to contribute as a sessional lecturer and critic to various schools of design.
You can follow Jocelyn via her Instagram @jocelynchiew_
About Do I Have The Right To Teach? //
‘Do I have the right to teach?’ is probably a common question for those suffering severe imposter syndrome when teaching. Heck - probably it should be ‘Do they have the right to teach?’ is another question commonly asked among students when they feel their tutor is incompetent.
Season 5 of Archemist Podcast will tackle the tricky policies, politics and relationships often found teaching in architecture education (or well, teaching in general really). Inspired by a question I had from my first year self and a scathing comment from an interviewer, we will be interviewing guests who are or are not directly working in practice while teaching architecture-related design(to architecture students or to the general public). I’m curious to know what their experience has been, and whether they too have found obstacles generational gaps, imposter syndrome and possible politics within.
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