STAFF PROFILE
Professor Peter Downton
Position:
Emeritus Professor
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
Phone:
+61399251010
Email:
peter.downton@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
- Teimu (The Garden of Dreams): aural and aesthetic attributes of Japanese gardens as models for spatial environments. Funded by: ARC Discovery 2006 from (2006 to 2009)
- Spatial Knowledge and the Built Environment: The Design Implications of Making, Processing and Digitally Prototyping Architectural Models. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2005 from (2005 to 2008)
- The ageing of Aquarius: Designing new housing solutions for Australia's baby-boomers. Funded by: ARC APAI Grant pre-2014 from (2002 to 2004)
- Hybrid Objects Exhibition Australia Embassy Tokyo.. Funded by: Arts Victoria International Program Grant pre-2014 from (2002 to 2002)
- The ageing of Aquarius: Designing new housing solutions for Australia's baby-boomers. Funded by: Mirvac Victoria Linkage Project from (2001 to 2001)
24 PhD Completions and 5 Masters by Research Completions
.Design research, specifically inquiring through designing, the production of knowing and knowledge through designing, the knowing of making, the comparative epistemologies of design and other fields, the role of models in design and other areas of inquiry
- Downton, P. (2018). The unmoored model adrift from the shores of purpose and function In: Theatre and Performance Design, 4, 134 - 148
- Downton, P. (2012). Beside myself: scrutinizing decades of supervising designers In: Supervising Practices for Postgraduate Research in Art, Architecture and Design, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Holland
- Mina, A.,Downton, P. (2011). Manual modelling: A pedagogical tool In: Interior Tools, Interior Tactics: Debates in Interiors Theory and Practice, Libri Publishing, Oxfordshire, UK
- Downton, P. (2009). Maps of what might be: A dozen works on ideas and possibilities In: Cartography and Art, Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany
- Downton, P. (2009). Lurking in a liminal land: Making images for an ecology of territories and relations In: IDEA Journal, -, 172 - 183
- Downton, P. (2009). Ways of constructing: Epistemic, temporal and productive aspects of design research In: Creative Arts Research: Narratives of Methodologies and Practices, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Downton, P. (2008). Epistemological Pavilion 13 In: Homo Faber: modelling, identity and the post digital Melbourne, Australia
- Burry, M.,Downton, P.,Mina, A.,Ostwald, M.,Fairley, A. (2008). Homo Faber: modelling, identity and the post digital In: Homo Faber: modelling, identity and the post digital Melbourne, Australia
- Downton, P. (2007). Epistemological Pavilions 11 and 12 In: Homo Faber: modelling architecture Melbourne, Australia
- Fairley, A.,Mina, A.,Downton, P. (2007). Homo Faber: modelling ideas In: Melbourne, Australia