Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Charity Edwards is a lecturer and urban researcher in the Department of Architecture at MADA, and a registered architect with over 15 years of experience ranging from small-scale domestic renovation and large civic projects to international urban design and planning for practices in Melbourne, regional Victoria, Brisbane and Darwin. She currently collaborates with other spatial practitioners to create interiors, buildings and landscapes.
Charity's research explores destructive, uneven, and 'more-than-human' impacts of urbanisation and climate change at the scale of the planet. She foregrounds long-disregarded spaces - such as the world ocean and outer space - in these processes in particular. Charity is currently developing a research project on 'Antarctic Geo-Imaginaries' that will investigate the increasing urbanisation of the Southern Ocean, and ask how and why this so often conflicts with our popular understanding of Antarctica as "like being on another planet".
At MADA, she teaches design studio, theory, and urban processes in both the Interior Architecture and Architecture programs. In 2016, Charity received the Early Career Teaching Award for leading cross-cultural learning and new teaching support initiatives in the faculty over the previous two years.
As part of Melbourne's wider culture of design discourse, she has partnered with visiting international practitioners on urban interventions; and continues to contribute to local, national, and international architecture and design media and events such as NGV's Art Book Fair public roundtable Architecture: What Matters? http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/architecture-what-matters/ Architect Victoria http://www.architecture.com.au/docs/defalut-source/vic-chapter-publications/summer.pdf?sfvrsn=0 Parlour http://archiparlour.org/why-working-for-free-is-not-ok and the peer-reviewed IDEA Journal http://idea-edu.com/journal/2014-idea-journal She also curated the Australian Institute of Architects' Victorian Architecture Awards exhibitions in 2005 and 2006. Charity has most recently been an active 're-writer' of notable Australian women architects into history as part of the international Women.Wikipedia.Design http://archiparlour.org/wikid-women-wikipedia-design initiative.
Education/Academic qualification
Environmental Science, Master of Environment (Distinction), University of Melbourne
Award Date: 1 Dec 2016
Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture, RMIT University
Award Date: 31 Jul 2008
Architecture, Master of Architecture (Distinction), RMIT University
Award Date: 31 Jul 2008
Research area keywords
- planetary urbanisation
- urban theory
- architecture
- geography
- Climate Change
- ocean
- Water
- image
- Outer Space
- Technology
Network
Projects
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WCC: Warracknabeal Creative Circuit
Edwards, C., Richardson, M., Crow, J., Spasojevic, D., Morgan, T., Bird, M., Turnbull, R. & Ferguson, M.
2/01/20 → 4/04/21
Project: Research
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Castlemaine Gaol Redevelopment
Bertram, N., Edwards, C. & Khor, L.
3/11/14 → 31/12/14
Project: Research
Research output
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After Warracknabeal
Morgan, T., Edwards, C. & Crow, J., 2020, Architect Victoria, Autumn, p. 18-21 4 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article › Research
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Urban Age
Edwards, C. & Gleeson, B., 2020, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Kobayashi, A. (ed.). 2 ed. Elsevier, Vol. 14. p. 19-23 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopaedia / Dictionary Entry › Research › peer-review
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Of the Ocean: Interiors at the Scale of the Planet
Edwards, C., 2019, Interior Futures. Brooker, G., Harriss, H. & Walker, K. (eds.). California, USA: Crucible Press, Vol. 2. p. 100-111 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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The masking of an urban Southern Ocean
Edwards, C., 10 Nov 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
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The ocean in (planetary) excess
Edwards, C., 2019, In : Dialogues in Human Geography. 9, 3, p. 312-315 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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Australian Interior Design Awards 2015 - Retail Design, Commendation
Bird, Matthew (Recipient), Edwards, Charity (Recipient) & Harry Evans (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Beazley Designs of the Year 2019 - Digital Category [shortlisted project]
Bennett, Alysia (Recipient), Edwards, Charity (Recipient), Virginia Mannering (Recipient) & Justine Clarke (Recipient), 11 Sep 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Victorian Architecture Awards - Interior Architecture, Shortlisted
Bird, Matthew (Recipient), Edwards, Charity (Recipient) & Harry Evans (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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National Architecture Conference 2020
Charity Edwards (Invited speaker)
8 May 2020 → 9 May 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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MRelay—Climate Crisis
Charity Edwards (Contributor)
24 Feb 2020Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
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2020 Melbourne Summer Salon
Charity Edwards (Contributor)
1 Mar 2020Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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'Place is a Slow Event'
Charity Edwards (Contributor) & Laura Harper (Contributor)
22 Mar 2019Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
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Interior Futures: a symposium
Charity Edwards (Contributor) & Naomi Stead (Contributor)
21 Mar 2019Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
Press / Media
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Glenn Murcutt’s MPavilion closes early due to COVID
6/04/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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WARRACKNABEAL HERALD: Renovations underway
Matthew Bird, Tom Morgan, Charity Edwards, Jason Crow, Mark Richardson, Dasha Spasojevic, Daniel Price & Duane Hamacher
20/12/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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THE WEEKLY ADVERTISER: Court house redevelopment
Charity Edwards, Tom Morgan, Matthew Bird & Duane Hamacher
5/06/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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THE WIMMERA MAIL-TIMES: Warracknabeal Court House redevelopment
Matt Bird, Charity Edwards & Thomas Davy Morgan
26/07/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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THE WIMMERA MAIL-TIMES: Warracknabeal's historic Court House could get a new lease on life after a feasibility study was given the go-ahead to transform the building into an artist's hub
Charity Edwards, Matthew Bird & Tom Morgan
26/04/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature