Charity Edwards

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.