Design Tasmania, the state?s leading centre for design, will present Unsettling Queenstown in August and September, 2024.
Created by Julian Worrall, Anthony Coupe, Ali Gumillya Baker, Emily Paech and Sarah Rhodes, Unsettling Queenstown was selected as Australia?s representation at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. The exhibition at Design Tasmania in Launceston will be its first showing since the Biennale, and its first exhibition in Australia.
Unsettling Queenstown draws from two real Queenstowns – one in lutruwita/Tasmania and the other in Kaurna Yarta/Adelaide – to explore decolonisation in architecture, and features a large suspended copper structure, two-dimensional paper elements, and multimedia.
Design Tasmania Artistic Director Michelle Boyde said that Design Tasmania was a fitting location for the project?s first Australian showing. ?Following the success of Unsettling Queenstown at the Venice Architecture Biennale, we?re excited to present this Tasmanian design project to a local audience.?
Creative Director and University of Tasmania Head of the School of Architecture and Design Profession Julian Worrall said that the exhibition encouraged reflection and conversation.
?Architecture is the spatial language that tells the story of Australia?s structure of relations to land, people and nature,? he said. ?Unsettling Queenstown is a reflection on the impact of colonialism on First Nations peoples and the natural environment, encouraging all Australian...