University of Melbourne Issue 20, June 2017 COLLECTIONS
University of Melbourne Collections Issue 20, June 2017 Published by the Cultural Collections Unit University Library University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia Tel. (03) 8344 0216 or 8344 0269 Email cultural-collections@unimelb.edu.au Editor: Belinda Nemec Guest co-editors for issue 20: Kate Darian-Smith and Andrew May Design: Janet Boschen, Boschen Design The authors and the University of Melbourne 2017 ISSN 1835-6028 (print) ISSN 1836-0408 (online) All material appearing in this publication is copyright and cannot be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher and the relevant author. The views expressed herein are those of individuals and not necessarily those of the University of Melbourne. Contributions relating to one or more of the cultural collections of the University of Melbourne are welcome. Please contact the editor, Dr Belinda Nemec, on bnemec@unimelb.edu.au. Subscription to University of Melbourne Collections is one of the many benefits enjoyed by the Friends of the Baillieu Library and the Grainger Museum Members. To join, please see library.unimelb.edu.au/baillieu/alumni/friends_of_ the_baillieu_library and grainger.unimelb.edu.au/get-involved/members. Front cover: Image for Cultural Collisions: Grainger Griffins, October 2016, a collaboration between the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Festival. Back cover: The Arts West building, University of Melbourne, completed 2016. Designed by ARM Architecture and Architectus. Photograph by John Gollings. (See article pp. 6 11.) Above: Image from Inside the ethereal eye, based on the composition Ethereal eye by Jonathan Mills; conceived, directed and produced by Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw, for Dome.Lab in collaboration with the Transformative Technologies Research Unit, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne; the University of New South Wales; and Deakin Motion.Lab Centre for Creative Arts Research. Supported by the City of Melbourne and Deakin Motion.Lab. Inside back cover, clockwise from top left: Two visitors experiencing Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw s Inside the ethereal eye; typography projection from performance of Jonathan Mills Ethereal eye; view of Rodney Berry s installation The vital organ in the Old Quad (photographs by Sharon Walker); Percy Grainger, Hills & dales air-blown-reeds tone-tool no. 1 (detail), from exhibition Experiments in freedom, researched and produced by Rosalind Hall, designed and engineered by Michael Candy, curated by Jonathon Drews, supported by Norman and Merryll Wodetzki and the Australia Council for the Arts.
Contents 3 Editors preface Belinda Nemec, Kate Darian-Smith and Andrew May 4 Introduction Jonathan Mills 6 The Arts West building: A contemporary Kunst und Wunderkammer ARM Architecture 12 Object-based learning: A new way of teaching in Arts West Andrew Jamieson 15 Percy Grainger: Sounds, machines, freedoms Malcolm Gillies 17 Calling Percy: A parallel pedagogical and studio research project leading to a significant cultural production Laura Woodward 31 Pholiota unlocked: A pedagogical case study Philip Goad 44 Modern significance: The challenge of historic buildings Julie Willis University of Melbourne Collections, issue 20, June 2017
46 Of stone and pixel: Creating digital mobile tools for interpreting heritage places Hannah Lewi 50 Relational returns: Relationships and the repatriation of legacy song recordings in Australia Reuben Brown and Sally Treloyn 62 Digital Sq éwlets: A story of belongings, worldview and teachings David M. Schaepe, Colin Pennier, Kate Hennessy and Natasha Lyons 68 Ngarranggarni: Gija Two-Way Learning and the University of Melbourne Gabriel Nodea and Robyn Sloggett 75 Narratives of ageing and the telling of life stories : Using the University of Melbourne s cultural collections in pedagogy and research on ageing Heather Gaunt 84 Finding a new voice: Musings on objects, audiences and Science Gallery Melbourne Rose Hiscock 2 University of Melbourne Collections, issue 20, June 2017