Dr Bridget Keane - RMIT University

Position: Lecturer

College / Portfolio: Design and Social Context

School / Department: DSC|School of AUD

Phone: +61399252968

Email: bridget.keane@rmit.edu.au

Campus: City Campus

Contact me about: Research supervision

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0120-0517

Bridget Keane is a lecturer in the Landscape Architecture program.

Overview

Her research and practice are concerned with Landscape as a dynamic material system and considers ways to generate dynamic modes of analysis and production of landscape. Projects are developed through the direct engagement with material production, processes and site logics. She has exhibited work as part of the State of Design and High Views festivals and published in Kerb and Jola Journals and her design work received a commendation the by AILA Unlandscaped Competition and published in Landscape Architecture Australia.

Research/Scholarship

Current research investigates concepts of nature through design research that emphasises complex systems, materiality and representation in the formation of the landscape.
Part of the Office of Urban Transformations Research (OUTr) group (www.outr.org)

Design Projects

Douglas, C, Keane, B and Monacella, R. "Transformative Surface." In Design For Everyone, curated by Fleur Watson, Melbourne, 14th–25th August 2009.
Lucas, Cassandra and Keane, Bridget. "Fissures." In Unlandscaped, curated by Landscape Architecture Australia, Docklands, Shed 10, Melbourne, 8 May 2009.
Craig Douglas, Bridget Keane, Rosalea Monacella. "Global Urban Measures." In High Views, curated by Sandy Caldow, Northcote Town Hall, Melbourne, 19–21 June 2009.
Bridget Keane, Cassandra Lucas and SueAnne Ware. "Noticing Melbourne." In Strangely Familiar [Working Title], curated by Dr Gini Lee, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, 8 May–1 June 2007.
Cassandra Lucas, Bridget Keane and SueAnne Ware. "Pillow Talk." In Site Unseen: Private art in public places, curated by Sandy Caldow, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne, 26 September

Symposia

Keane, B. "Landscape and Intimacy." In Look Who's Talking, convened by Anna McDonald, Melbourne, ACCA, 19 October 2008.
Keane, Bridget. "Instability." In Bottom Up Urbanism, convened by Rosalea Monacella, Academie Van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam, 25 November 2008.

Key Activities

Bridget teaches across all streams of the Landscape Architecture program and is curator of the Lower Pool Design Stream within which she has developed a curatorial framework based on design method. Key initiatives include the annual Approaching Landscape student conference and proceedings, Transect student design forum and LA design stream website.

Qualifications

BSc Melb, BDes(Landscape Architecture)(Hons) RMIT, GradCert TT+L

Publications

Bush, K.,Keane, B.,Lynch, J. (2020). Future Systems Lab: A Landscape Architectural Teaching Model to Enable the Development of Practices that Can Thrive in Times of Disruption In: Tertiary Education in a Time of Change, Springer, Singapore
Keane, B.,Monacella, R. (2020). Fatberg: Material ecologies and the complexities of waste In: Strelka Mag Moscow, Russia
Mohammadi, M.,Stevens, Q.,Keane, B.,Mohammadi, M.,Bagherinezhad, M. (2019). A Brighter City: Shedding new light on Privately Owned Public Spaces to improve Access, Use and Inclusion In: City of Melbourne and RMIT Design Challenge 2019 Co-designing inclusive, civic and sensorial moments in the city Melbourne, Australia
Monacella, R.,Keane, B. (2018). Approaching Landscape: Practice based activities as dynamic models for student centered teaching and learning In: ECLAS Conference: Landscapes of Conflict 2018, Ghent, Belgium, 9-12 September 2018
Keane, B. (2013). Projections In: Approaching Landscape 2013, Melbourne Books, Melbourne, Australia
Keane, B. (2012). Landscapes of Interference In: Exposure/00: Design Research in Landscape Architecture, Melbourne Books, Melbourne, Australia
Keane, B.,Lucas, C.,Ong, J. (2010). Replicator In: University Of Canberra Campus Design Ideas Competition Canberra, Australia
Keane, B.,Church, K.,Howard, M.,Morgan, N.,Morgan-Payler, J.,Court, T.,Monacella, R.,Douglas, C. (2010). QRioCity In: QRioCity, State of Design Festival Melbourne, Australia
Keane, B.,Lucas, C. (2010). Plastic Soup In: Kerb, issue 18 Melbourne, Australia
Keane, B.,Lucas, C. (2010). Plastic Web In: Northern Exposure Visual Arts Festival Melbourne, Australia

Supervisor Interests

Landscape Architecture, Material processes, New ecologies, Urban ecologies, Landscape systems

Supervisor Projects

2 PhD Completions7 PhD Current Supervisions