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Week 3 - Coggle Diagram
Week 3
The semblance of populism: National Museum of Australia
Populism
popular acceptance at the cost of quality, intellectual rigour, or formal aesthetic value
Popularity
more neutral modern sense, either of actual public involvement, or of things that are socially recognised as popular
there is a ‘look’ of populism that exists independently of any intended or actual popularity, or even a connection with popular culture
This is seen where NMA succeeds through the manipulation of individual key aesthetic devices, some of which as discussed above included the use of bright colour, both literal and figurative elements as well as visual jokes and non-orthogonal forms.
. The National Museum of Australia (NMA)
NMA is a very controversial building, firstly it was brought to light that in comparison to other national institutions it was much cheaper as there was a tighter budget. However, “in architectural terms it is much louder, more gregarious, and more deliberately contentious than any of them” (Stead, 2004) as the NMA is vastly complex from both the physical and conceptual aspects.
Say it Loud: Indigeneity, Politicised Identities in Architecture
Post colonialism
relationship between a dominant power and its subjects under colonialism and decolonisation
Post Colonial perspecitves
: Give voice to all types and sites of struggles against hegemonic power
History
1924 Australian Aboriginis Progessive Association
1928 A.M. Ferando Protest (Australia House - London)
1932 The Australia Aborigines League
1936 Torres Strait Islanders - unfair labour rights
1938 26th January Day of Mourning and Protest - Australia Hall Sydney
1939 - 1957 Cummeragunja Walk-Off
Post Colonial Architecture and Urbanism
Subjective experience and cultural relativity of aesthetics in architecture and urbanism as opposed to objective and universal measures