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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After Warracknabeal
Bird, M., Edwards, C., Morgan, T., Richardson, M. & Crow, J., 2022Research output: Non-textual form › Design / Architecture › Research
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New Orbital Urbanization
Edwards, C. & Gleeson, B., 2022, 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 -
Outerspatial: working through and with technologies that encircle us
Edwards, C., 2022, Architect Victoria, 3, p. 102-105 4 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article › Research
Open AccessFile -
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
Open Access -
Death Metal: Rediscovering the Shimmer in Gold
Hine, A. & Edwards, C., 2020, Kerb, 28, p. 112-115 4 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article › Research
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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The Wonder Cabinette Project
Jason Crow (Contributor) & Charity Edwards (Contributor)
14 Oct 2022Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Creative Neighbourhood Infrastructure Support Program Advisory Panel (Event)
Charity Edwards (Member)
31 Jul 2022 → 28 Aug 2022Activity: Industry, Government and Philanthropy Engagement and Partnerships › Membership of an advisory panel/policy group/ board
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RMIT Practice Review Symposium - Australia
Charity Edwards (Fellow)
22 Oct 2022Activity: External Academic Engagement › External research and teaching
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Shiel Street Press (External organisation)
Charity Edwards (Member)
1 Sep 2022 → …Activity: Industry, Government and Philanthropy Engagement and Partnerships › Membership of an advisory panel/policy group/ board
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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
Press/Media
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WARRACKNABEAL COURTHOUSE
Jason Crow, Charity Edwards, Matthew Bird & Tom Morgan
21/08/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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STATE GOVERNMENT OF VICTORIA: 'Warracknabeal’s historic courthouse reborn as arts hub'
Jason Crow, Charity Edwards, Matthew Bird, Tom Morgan & Mark Richardson
18/08/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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ABC RADIO: 'Warracknabeal Art Hotel'
Ross Turnbull, Matthew Bird, Charity Edwards, Tom Morgan, Mark Richardson & Jason Crow
26/01/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Profile/Interview
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ABC WIMMERA: 'Warracknabeal Creative Circuit'
5/05/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Profile/Interview
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THE WEEKLY ADVERTISER: 'Art hotels in Yarriambiack planning'
Charity Edwards, Jason Crow, Matthew Bird, Tom Morgan & Mark Richardson
11/11/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature