Homeland: returning, remembering, reimagining
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2016
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Cys, J.
Lawrence, J.
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The concept of homeland is both familiar and foreign: a paradigm, a place, a landscape, a nation or region, a constituency, a way of being, a place of belonging. It is of the past, the present and the future. It houses memories, experiences, objects, cultures, beliefs and relationships. Homeland is a realm where place and people are intimately connected and disconnected. In thoughts of home, intricate details of physical interior space and fellow occupants are deeply etched and continuously recalled.
An association with ‘home’ is ingrained in every person’s consciousness. For many, home is the place where first memories are made, where security and love are bounded. For others, home is a place of refuge, safety and shelter. For some, home is a place yet to be established, a future and sometimes distant site where new memories will be made and dreams will be realised.
Homeland: returning, remembering, reimagining marks the fifty year history of the University of South Australia’s current Bachelor of Interior Architecture and its antecedent programs and awarding institutions (South Australian Institute of Technology (SAIT) and South Australian College of Advanced Education (SACAE). The exhibition also celebrates the 25th birthday of the University of South Australia.
To celebrate fifty years of interior design alumni, Homeland: returning, remembering,reimagining has invited 12 graduates to ‘come home’ from their daily practice and share their personal reflections on, and responses to, the notion of homeland in relation to their professional practice and their personal lives. The works are contextualised by a pivotal spatial installation piece designed by alumnus and lecturer, Michael Geissler. The installation collectively acknowledges all alumni since the first graduating cohort in 1966 and abstractly references academic staff who have guided the current and antecedent programs.
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