ADAnow
12 August – 12 September 2021
ADAnow is a digital showcase that brings to life our new faculty’s vision: through creativity, collaboration and inclusion, we seek and solve problems to improve life on earth.
Featuring a diverse range of thinkers and creators, the online program includes art exhibitions, podcasts, music recordings, lectures, panel conversations, and research stories.
Let us know what you’ve enjoyed - and what’s inspired you.
Professor Claire Annesley, Dean, UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture
Events
University of the Future
Gene Willsford UTZON Lecture: Professor Penny Sparke
Luminocity
Intersectionality, refugee women and girls: From theory to practice
The Future of Justice
On Consent
Creative Destruction
On Creativity
Social Sciences Week
Watch
UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture – Shape the future through creativity
Our creative, diverse faculty through our students’ eyes.
The responsibility of narrative
Anneke Jaspers shares why there is more to curating an exhibition than what meets the eye.
Memory – School of Humanities & Languages
Dr Natalia Ortiz questions the fragility of our identity, emotions, and sense of belonging while living in a foreign country.
My Grandmother was a Soviet spy
Professor Ludmila Stern discusses the connection between her research on Soviet intellectuals and her own grandmother who was imprisoned in the 1930s.
Shelter: What do we need from the next generation of designers?
Dr Mark Ian Jones discusses the future of design and architecture and how designers need to ask themselves, 'do we need this'?
Decreasing temperature and energy poverty in our cities
Through High-Performance Architecture, Professor Mattheos Santamouris tackles climate problems affecting most of the population of the world.
UNSW School of the Arts & Media
See a glimpse into the lives of our media, creative and performing arts students at UNSW School of the Arts & Media.
Alumni profile –
Gerwyn Davies
Gerwyn Davies' photographs explore the expression of camp as an aesthetic strategy in photographic self-representation.
Alumni profile –
Aymeric Maudous
From little things, big things grow. After studying a Master of Environmental Management at UNSW, Aymeric Maudous founded his own company, Lord of the Trees.
Alumni profile –
Elizabeth Greenhalgh
UNSW Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Arts alumna Elizabeth Greenhalgh, discusses her role as Music Programmer at ABC Classic and her love for radio.
What I wish I knew – Thoughts from UNSW alumni
We asked our inspiring UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture alumni for their advice to inspire our community – what they wish they knew when studying and starting their career.
Listen
Ask a Social Scientist – Podcast series
If you have a difficult problem to solve, ask a social scientist!
With new episodes released daily throughout Social Sciences Week from 6 – 12 September, this series is hosted by Associate Professor Siobhan O’Sullivan and features 10 academics from across ADA.
Episode 1 featured below is with our very own Dean, Professor Claire Annesley.
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- Gendered violence | Professor Jan Breckenridge
- Adapting to online learning during COVID | Professor Andrew Martin
- The politics of listening | Associate Professor Tanja Dreher
- Corruption in the building industry | Professor David Sanderson
- What’s underground? | Dr Marilu Zurita
- Apartment Living | Associate Professor Hazel Easthope
- China | Dr Ian McArthur
- Rapid research responses to COVID | Dr Kari Lancaster
- Animal Studies scholars | Associate Professor Siobhan O’Sullivan
UNSW Music – Winter Flowers
A selection of remixes from students in Creative Sound Technologies. Original song ‘Winter Flowers’ by the Virtual Jazz Collective.