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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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
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Single Point Incremental Forming of Structural Insulated Panel System for Monocoque Structures
Crow, J., Edwards, C., Bird, M., Morgan, T., Ness, P., Fischer, S., Cassell, W. & Baker, J.
25/01/22 → 30/05/23
Project: Research
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The Wonder Cabinette Project
Crow, J., Edwards, C., Bird, M., Morgan, T., Hamacher, D., Cassell, W., Ness, P., Fischer, S., Ferguson, M. & Turnbull, R.
30/06/21 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
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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 → 30/05/22
Project: Research
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Castlemaine Gaol Redevelopment
Bertram, N., Edwards, C. & Khor, L.
3/11/14 → 31/12/14
Project: Research
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New Orbital Urbanization
Edwards, C. & Gleeson, B., 14 Dec 2021, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Brears, R. (ed.). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 5 p. (Springer Reference Earth & Environm. Science Reference Module Physical and Materials Science).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopaedia / Dictionary Entry › Research › peer-review
Open Access -
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
Prizes
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Australian Interior Design Awards 2015 - Retail Design, Commendation
Bird, Matthew (Recipient), Edwards, Charity (Recipient) & Evans, H. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Beazley Designs of the Year 2019 - Digital Category [shortlisted project]
Bennett, A. (Recipient), Edwards, Charity (Recipient), Mannering, V. (Recipient) & Clarke, J. (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) & Evans, H. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Conceptual PlayWorlds: Concepts, creativity and collective thinking of infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers
Jason Crow (Contributor), Charity Edwards (Contributor), Tom Morgan (Contributor), Matthew Bird (Contributor) & Dasha Spasojevic (Contributor)
17 Mar 2022 → 31 Mar 2022Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Performance/exhibition
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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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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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'Place is a Slow Event'
Charity Edwards (Contributor) & Laura Harper (Contributor)
22 Mar 2019Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
Press / Media
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Warracknabeal Art Hotel
Matthew Bird, Tom Morgan, Charity Edwards, Jason Crow & Ross Turnbull
26/01/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Profile/Interview
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'Warracknabeal Creative Circuit' radio interview with Charity Edwards & Jason Crow
5/05/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Profile/Interview
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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