VILE COAL
2017
Loc_East Gippsland_Victoria
Supervised by Scott Woods
This thesis investigated an alternative way to manifest trauma into space. It will contend with Lebbeus Woods’ ‘Free Space’ response to Sarajevo in his War and Architecture project where he injects a new spatial typology with in the wounds of the destroyed city. This thesis will employ a Zizekian/Hegelian scope to a non-objective trauma located in the Latrobe Valley, East Victoria; and will use critical historic moments to identify and understand the current trauma that is ensuing with in the Valley as a coming to terms and eventual exodus from the area.
Artefacts:
This thesis investigated an alternative way to manifest trauma into space. It will contend with Lebbeus Woods’ ‘Free Space’ response to Sarajevo in his War and Architecture project where he injects a new spatial typology with in the wounds of the destroyed city. This thesis will employ a Zizekian/Hegelian scope to a non-objective trauma located in the Latrobe Valley, East Victoria; and will use critical historic moments to identify and understand the current trauma that is ensuing with in the Valley as a coming to terms and eventual exodus from the area.
Artefacts:
- The Unknown Leap and the Long Fall_Great Open Cut FLood, 1934.
- Theatre of Sound_Pre-War Yallourn and Brown Coal Mine Town, 1920’s-40’s
- Villa Imperium_Privatisation of the State Electrical Commision, 1996
