Last week our guest lecturer Jane Burry, Dean of Design at the Swinburne University of Technology,  invited as part of the IAAC Lecture Series 2017/18, inspired the audience with his lecture: Capturing Dynamics in Design.

By contrast with science and unravelling the mysteries of the natural world, architecture seems in many ways inherently focussed on end points and the production of a solid and enduring presence in the world rather than mechanisms and dynamism per se.

Yet architecture and design have been continually invoked in relation to order-in-the-universe, sometimes for their intentionality in producing an ideal outcome, sometimes as the schema of a system.

Through a number of projects, references and case studies, Jane Burry’s lecture brought into focus the dynamic interface between the built world and our restless atmosphere.

Professor Jane Burry is Dean of Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne and a practicing architect. Formally, Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) at RMIT University, Jane has led transdisciplinary design research and education initiatives since the early 2000’s, bringing together diverse teams of students and researchers around design challenges requiring research through design and empirical exploration.