Swayn Open Research

The Alastair Swayn Foundation is committed to information sharing and transparency of the research it funds. We believe that research supported by the Foundation should be made discoverable and readily accessible online. The Swayn Open Research repository provides a place for researchers to promptly have their findings published on an open access basis, to benefit the architecture and design community.

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Master Research Grant Tim Fulton Master Research Grant Tim Fulton

How integrated into their communities are aged care typologies in Canberra? An assessment of walkability

A case study of Canberra Aged Care in Lyneham, Australian Capital Territory (ACT), forms the basis of a mixed-methods study combining the Seniors Walking Environmental Audit Tool-Revised (SWEAT-R), and spatial and visual mapping. Central to this study is a novel phenomenological graphical delayering method, developed to translate the experience of walking into a visual analytic tool.

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Master Research Grant Tim Fulton Master Research Grant Tim Fulton

Colouring Canberra’s Suburbs Blue: exploring an alternative densification option for suburban infill

Using the post-war suburb of Watson as a case study, the research analyses the characteristics of Canberra’s “ex-govie” suburbs, where redevelopment pressures are intensifying. Four design scenarios were developed using a real urban section in Watson to test how Bluefield housing principles could be applied to Canberra’s context.

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Enduring Cultural Matter: Architectural materials are never neutral

Drawing from her residency at the American Academy in Rome, Stephanie explored material reuse not just as a design strategy, but as a cultural act. Through the lens of spolia - the reuse of fragments from existing structures - she traced how materials can carry memory, labour, and meaning across time, from the travertine quarries of Tivoli to the basalt plains of Western Victoria.

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Design Strategy Research Tim Fulton Design Strategy Research Tim Fulton

Mirndiyan Gununa: an embedded case study of workplace dynamics of a remote Indigenous Art Centre

The case study report collates preliminary and baseline data investigating the work and workplace dynamics of a Far North Queensland IAC, Mirndiyan Gununa Aboriginal Corporation (aka MIArt), Mornington Island, as an embedded case study. The report presents the key outputs of the study and provides an overview of the IAC and its context to provide an historical and cultural overview.

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