Team Miskom (Team 3)

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We all met for dinner last night (missing only Clifford who is now joining the other team members for breakfast!).

We discussed a lot of ideas about Docklands, space, interests and what we wanted the team to be about. There will be more soon, but in summary:

The Miskom ethos is… Natural, engaging with the elements, interactive, incorporating permanence and impermanence, tactile, intimate, articulate, considered and maybe a bit funny.

Heres a bit about us and what we'll be doing over the next 3 days:

Tom Gooch – Team Leader

Interested in Strategic Landscape Adaptation in the urban environment and testing ideas at varying scales. Thomas works a Landscape Architect bringing to the team substantial design and project experience in the public domain. Thomas enjoys urban farming, ocean swimming and cloudspotting amongst other things.

Kirsty Hustwick– Chief documentarian
Kirsty is a masters student interested in art in the public realm and urban narratives. Her studies have included Docklands and its history.

Louise Miller – General hands-on maker and creator, catering
Sculptor and worker of industrial materials in artistic projects.

Angus Durkin – Workshop coordinator, technical supervisor, OHS
After growing up on an organic farm, Angus has studied furniture design and work in the private sector designing public furniture. He is now in his 4^th year of a double degree in landscape architecture. He also has a multi-media art exhibition opening this Thursday!

Xavier Cadorel – Engineer, timber and sustainable design expert Xavier has a background in Civil Engineering but switched to architecture when concrete boxes weren’t making him happy. He has worked on zero carbon houses in NZ and the Hyatt in Melbourne. Also - Xavier is French and his name means “new house” in Basque.

Briony Galligan – Blogging, First Aid, Driver Briony works as a producer for the Next Wave Festival with public space artists. She has her own art practice with an exhibition that opened last week.

Flynn Hart – Process Design Flynn works for a Darebin council as a Landscape Architect. He is also a director of Project Pollen, which arose from the Urban Pollinators project - http://www.projectpollen.typepad.com/. He enjoys collaboration, fixing things, gardening and photography and believes in design for social good.

Elizabeth Dansie – General hands-on maker and creator, DriverAlso, Interior Architect, and crafter. Elizabeth trained as an Interior Architect in Adelaide. She now lives in Melbourne, and is working starting her own business creating and selling cards, magnets, booties, and all things creative. You can find her current work at: www.velvetlyric.etsy.com

She loves patterns, textures, and lighting when it comes to architecture, and can't wait to start designing and building in the competition.

Two images

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_togwyrdcnSs/St7LksjSe8I/AAAAAAAAAVM/AbnTeL3fAh0/s400/Church_Of_Light_01.jpglink is http://pixel-samurai.blogspot.com/2009/10/cg-reconstruction-tadao-ando-church-of.html

(Tadao Ando. Church of the light)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/2342743330_f9edd4498b.jpg link ishttp://mapleseedrenovation.wordpress.com/page/4/
Japanese joinery.

Erin Farley – Driver, Blogger, General jobs what ever (that's me!) Erin has a background in media and communications but is now trying new things by working as a project officer for the Yarra Energy Foundation. She is interested in the relationship between space, sustainability and well being.

Clifford Dean - Driver, Design, Construction, Visuals Cliff is currently studying Landscape Architecture, Architecture and graphic Design at QUT. His interests are simplicity irregularity and perishability