Pia Ednie-Brown

Pia Ednie-Brown is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She teaches extensively in the architecture department of RMIT and maintains the creative research practice onomatopoeia, established in 2000.
Early life and family
Ednie-Brown grew up in Perth, Western Australia. She completed her Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Western Australia in 1990
Research, collaboration and teaching
Ednie-Brown completed her doctoral thesis The Aesthetics of Emergence at RMIT in 2008 through the multi-disciplinary SIAL (Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory), in which she continues to teach and research.
Awards
* PhD shortlisted with three others for RIBA Presidents Medal: Outstanding Thesis, 2008
* Honorary Mention in Prix Ars Electronica 2005, for Intimate Transactions, multi-user interactive installation, 2005
* 10th Annual BHERT Award: awarded to the Telstra Home Team at the Interactive Information Institute (of which she was a team member in 1999) for "Outstanding Achievement in Collaboration in Education and Training," 2000
Events and exhibitions
Ednie-Brown has exhibited widely in more than 20 venues internationally.
2009
* ‘Plastic Futures’. Installation/exhibition, with RMIT Masters of Architecture and fashion students. Victorian State of Design Festival, July 2009
2005
* ‘The Shower’ (interactive installation) with Bruce Mowson, Hatched, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, June-July 2005
* ‘Intimate Transactions’ (multi-user, networked interactive artwork: haptic feedback system) with Inger Mewburn and the Transmute Collective, 2005
2004
* ‘The Shower’ - interactive installation 2004
* Job Lot #59 curated by LouiseAnn Zahra, The Project Space gallery, May 24 - June 11, 2004
* ‘Art For Your Senses’, Blind-deaf Awareness Week Exhibition, The Artery Gallery, Fitzroy, June 29 - July 12, 2004
* ‘The Tube’ - immersive installation, Beijing Architecture Biennale,. September 2004
2003
* Curator/director: ‘Skins of Intimate Distance’, group exhibition staged at Experimedia space, State Library of Victoria, November 2003
Bibliography
Ednie-Brown has contributed widely to a range of academic texts, both locally and internationally.
She is on the editorial board of Fibreculture journal, an open source academic journal dedicated to the contexts philosophy and politics of contemporary media technologies and events.
She is on the advisory board of Inflexions, a journal for research creation, an open-access journal for research-creation sponsored by the Sense Lab.
* Ednie-Brown, P. ‘Architectural Coexistence: Twins, Logs, and the Ecology of Things’, Log 30, Winter 2014, pp 15-28. ISSN: 1547-4690 (ISBN 978-0-9836491-3-7)
* Ednie-Brown, P. ‘The Flexible Mould: Creative Projects as Individuating Creatures’, Heteropolis, Montreal: Adaptive Actions, 2013, pp 142-148. (ISBN 978-0-9866375-1-3)
* Ednie-Brown, P. Burry, M. Burrow, A. ‘The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality’, The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality, P. Ednie-Brown, M. Burry, A. Burrow (eds), Architectural Design Profile No 221, H. Castle (series ed), London: Wiley, 2013, pp 6-17. (ISBN 987-1119-978657)
* Ednie-Brown, P. ‘The Ethics of the Imperative’, The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality, P. Ednie-Brown, M. Burry, A. Burrow (eds), Architectural Design Profile No 221, H. Castle (series ed), London: Wiley, 2013, pp 18-23. (ISBN 987-1119-978657)
* Ednie-Brown, P. ‘Innovation at the Storefront: The Practice of Eva Franch i Gilabert’, The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality, P. Ednie-Brown, M. Burry, A. Burrow (eds), Architectural Design Profile No 221, H. Castle (series ed), London: Wiley, 2013, pp 34-37. (ISBN 987-1119-978657)
* Ednie-Brown, P. ‘On a Fine Line: Greg Lynn and the Voice of Innovation’, The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality, P. Ednie-Brown, M. Burry, A. Burrow (eds), Architectural Design Profile No 221, H. Castle (series ed), London: Wiley, 2013, pp 44-49. (ISBN 987-1119-978657).
* Ednie-Brown, P. ‘Strange Vitality: The Transversal Architectures of MOS and New Territories/R&Sie(n)’, The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality, P. Ednie-Brown, M. Burry, A. Burrow (eds), Architectural Design Profile No 221, H. Castle (series ed), London: Wiley, 2013, pp 62-69. (ISBN 987-1119-978657).
* Ednie-Brown, Pia. ‘bioMason and the Speculative Engagements of Biotechnical Architecture’, The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality, P. Ednie-Brown, M. Burry, A. Burrow (eds), Architectural Design Profile No 221, H. Castle (series ed), London: Wiley, 2013, pp 84-91. (ISBN 987-1119-978657)
* Ednie-Brown, Pia.’Vicious Architectural Circles: aesthetics, affect and the disposition of emergence’, Architectural Theory Review 17.1, London: Routledge, pp. 76-92 (ISSN 1326-4826 (Print), 1755-0475 (Online)).
* Ednie-Brown, Pia. ‘Creaturely Collectives: parametricism and getting to the afterparty’, The Design Collective: An Approach to Practice, H. Edquist, L. Vaughan (eds.), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, pp. 16-34. (ISBN 1-4438-4027-0)
* Ednie-Brown, Pia. ‘Architecture on Wire: Resilience Through Vitality’, Log 25: Reclaim Resistance// ….. R2, Francois Roche (ed), Summer 2012, pp15-22. ISSN: 1547-4690 (ISBN 978-0-9836491-3-7)
* Ednie-Brown, Pia. ‘Supervising Emergence: Adapting Ethics Approval Frameworks toward Research by Creative Project’, Supervising Practices for Postgraduate Research in Art, Architecture and Design, B. Allpress, R. Barnacle, L. Duxbury, E. Grierson (eds), Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2012, pp. 103-116. (ISBN 978-94-6209-017-0)
* Ednie-Brown, P. ‘Open Wide, Come Inside: Laughter, Composure and Architectural Play’, in INFLeXions, Concordia University, Canada, no. 6, 2013,pp. 413-424 (ISSN: 1916-5870)
* Ednie-Brown, Pia, ‘Feeling Green: Plastic Transformability and Generative Critique’, Sustain and Develop, 306090 Books
J. Bolchover, J. D. Solomon (eds), Vol. 13, 2009, pp. 271-279. (ISBN 978-0692000885)
* Ednie-Brown, Pia (2009), Rising Out of the Affective Sea: Emergence and Architectural Composition, Architectural Design Research, Brent Allpress & Michael Ostwald (eds), Vol 3, No 1, pp 103-131. (ISSN 1448-9007)
* Ednie-Brown, Pia (2008), ‘Uzorci materijalizacije’ (English title: ‘Emergent Composure’), Oris 51, Zagreb: ARHITEKT, pp 136-147
* Ednie-Brown, Pia (2008). ‘Plastic Super Models’, Fibreculture Journal, Issue 12: Models, Metamodels and Contemporary Media, Andrew Murphie and Gary Genosko (eds), link to paper
* Ednie-Brown, Pia and Mewburn, Inger, (2006) ‘Laughter and The Undeniable Difference Between Us’, in Hamilton, Jillian (Ed.) Intimate Transactions: Art, Exhibition and Interaction within Distributed Network Environments, Australian Centre for Interaction Design, Queensland University of Technology.
* Ednie-Brown, Pia (2006) ‘All-Over, Over-All: biothing and Emergent Composition’, Programming Cultures: Art and Architecture in the Age of Software, Helen Castle, Michael Silver (eds), Architectural Design Academy Editions, No 182, Vol 76, no 4, London, July/August, pp 72-81.
* Ednie-Brown, Pia (2006) ‘CONTINUUM; a self engineering creature-culture’, Collective Intelligence in Design, Helen Castle, Chris Perry and Chris Hight (eds), Architectural Design Academy Editions, No 183, Vol 76, no 5, Sept/Oct, London, pp 18-25.
* Ednie-Brown, Pia (2006), ‘Rising Out of the Affective Sea: architectural composition, emergence and discursive conflict’, Contested Terrains, Refereed conference proceedings, Society of Architectural Historians, Australia New Zealand, 2006. Editors: Terrance McMinn, John Stephens, Steve Basson.
* Ednie-Brown, Pia (2005), ‘Processual Consistency’, Drawing Together: convergent practices in architectural education, Refereed proceedings, Third international conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA). Editors: Kathi Holt-Damant and Paul Sanders
* Ednie-Brown, Pia (2001), ‘Diagramming Innovation-Scapes’, Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory of Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory, Hugh Brown, Geert Lovink, Helen Merrick, Ned Rossiter, David Teh, Michele Willson (eds), Fibreculture Publications, Melbourne, pp. 197-203.
* Ednie-Brown, Pia (2001), ‘The Will to Animation’ in Architecture and Animation, Bob Fear (Ed.), Architectural Design Academy Editions, Vol 71, No 2, London, pp. 64-73.
* Ednie-Brown, Pia (2000), ‘The Texture of Diagrams’ in Diagrammania, Daidalos issue 74, Berlin, pp. 72-79. download PDF of text
* Ednie-Brown, Pia (1999), ‘Falling into the Surface’ in Hypersurface Architecture II, Stephen Perrella (Ed), Architectural Design Academy Editions, vol 69, no. 9-10, London, pp. 8-11.
Books
* The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality, (with Mark Burry, Andrew Burrow) (eds). Architectural Design Profile No 221, H. Castle (series ed.), London: Wiley, 2013. ISBN 987-1119-978657
* Plastic Green: designing for environmental transformation, (ed.), RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, 2009. ISBN 9781921426070

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