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This week’s reading by J.E Malpas seeks to remedy “sense of place” by advancing an account of the nature and significance of place as a complex but unitary structure that encompasses self and other, space and time, subjectivity and objectivity.He argues that the significance of place is not to be found in our experience of place so much as in the grounding of experience in place, and that this binding to place is not a contingent feature of human existence, but derives from the very nature of human thought, experience and identity as established in and through place.
Malpas prefers to call place “opaque” or “obscure” . The writer himself is leery of regarding “place” as a social or political construct even though neither of Malpas or anyone else denies cultural of and historical dimensions of place.The intimate bonding between place and culture does not mean that place is a simple product of cultural configurations anymore than it is of social structure or political power. He shows us that we can effect changes of place as well as be affected by the place we are in.
For the very first task, I’ve chosen to investigate building 16 aka the Storey Hall , which is located on Swanston street, in between building 8 and building 22.For 4 long years I have been walking past this building everytime I go to uni but have never actually been inside the building, because of it’s different shapes and green and purple colorways at the entrance, which I feel very unwelcoming to walk in. Also there’s a small glass door with a metal rhombus shape right on it.
As I walked in, once in the morning and once at around 5pm, I felt like I was trespassing because of it’s emptiness and its high celling, plus the cold toned color of the neon lights and the shapes ( mostly green and purple ). It was also dark inside , making me wonder what is the story and purpose behind this abstract green lighting and shapes.
Walking down the stairs to find out more, I found myself in an empty hallway, which lead to the theater. There was no seats or any particular area as a normal lecture theater’s hallway should have, but there are power outlets and white neon lights. The theater room door was locked so I couldnt get in both times, which I tended to go visit again.
And since I wasnt able to vist the theater, I did some research on it and found some interesting info and photos, that it used to have lots of functions . One of it was they used to organize boxing matches inside the theater, also had huge banquet, which is really fasinating, given how empty the building was when I visited it, that back in the day, held that big and crowded events.
(http://mams.rmit.edu.au/kmcsyi6ftqp9.jpg)
One more thing I found intersting was the signs inside the building. 
As RMIT uses the same font for signs and other related info, Storey Hall’s signs were completely different, from the shapes of it to the different fonts. As I wonder, isn’t it a must to use one certain font through out the whole campus, or building 16 is just too abstract for university’s unity ?
And finally, I encountered the brick wall on the second floor.It’s definitely out of place, an old brick wall in the middle of the hallway, surrounded by modern cement colorway walls. It felt like a portal from the old Hibernian Hall to the newly Storey Hall, that when it was innovated, that particular brick wall was left there, for people to wonder and imagine the complete different vibe between the old and new building.
After researching, I found out that Storey Hall started life as Hibernian Hall, built by the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society in 1887.It became an important symbol of social and political protest and was the venue for suffrage rallies, St Patrick’s Day marches, classical and rock concerts and – legend has it – a performance by Dame Nellie Melba.
During World War I the building was leased to a feminist pacifist organisation, the Women’s Political Association, and was the venue for many of Melbourne’s largest anti-conscription public meetings and rallies. The organisation’s purple, white and green flag was hoisted on the roof of the building as a symbol of the sisterhood of women.
The building was bought for the Melbourne Technical College (as RMIT was then called) by the Victorian Education Department in 1957.
The hall was renamed in 1959 in honour of Sir John Storey, an industrialist and member of the RMIT Council for 15 years, and his son John junior who, on his death at the age of 21, was an engineering student at RMIT. Sir John donated a bequest to RMIT, a scholarship in honour of his son.This scholarship continues today to enable students to study overseas.
Storey Hall was renovted and redesigned in the mid-1990s by architects Ahston Raggatt McDougall ( Alumni of RMIT ) in a de-constructivist style. IT was one of the first buildings in Melbourne to incorporate computer modelling and digital fabrication.
The renovated section is adorned with Penrose tiles arranged into pentagons, a tiling pattern based on the work of mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose. The arrangements and green and purple colours of the tiles recall the hall’s earlier life as a place for feminist debate and Catholic activism.
(http://mr-architecture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/SK_20.png)
Now Storey Hall is a place to sit exams and attend conferences, seminars or scholarship award ceremonies. The old Hibernian Hall section of the building is now the site of the RMIT Gallery, which recently hosted the Music, Melbourne and Me: 40 years of Mushroom and Melbourne’s Popular Music Culture exhibition.
References :
Marketing and Communication, 2012-07-02, Boxing at Storey Hall [Online, Image ], Web Services, Melbourne, Vic, Available from: /browse;ID=kmcsyi6ftqp9.jpg
http://mr-architecture.com/sketches-of-australia/
Smart, J 2008, ‘Respect not relief: feminism, guild socialism and the guild hall commune in Melbourne, 1917, Labour History, no. 94, pp. 113-132.
Place, then, is both Simple (and that is part of its appeal) and complicated.
This reading explores various competing theories of place. Cresswell separates contemporary thought on place into three, at times overlapping, categories. The first category is the descriptive approach, the second the social constructivist approach, and the third the phenomenological approach.
Cresswell also pushes beyond these theories of place, focusing instead on behavior that is seen as “out of place,” particularly homosexual behavior and the existence of the homeless. Through these explorations, Cresswell does not resolve the tensions between different definitions of place, but he explains these tensions in order to argue that place is an important and complex topic that academics from a variety of disciplines should pay attention to. Environmental thinkers should heed Cresswell’s call and continue to investigate how our connections to place affect the natural world and how we might come to better protect it.
‘My place’ is not ‘your place’ – you and I have different places. ‘ ; “Place is everywhere”
This week’s reading demonstrates that in order to develop your professional practice you must first develop your own sensitivities and awareness.
Noticing has slowed down the pace of things, little things, making it more significance. Focusing, paying attention and being mindless had turned me into a calmer person, leading my thoughts to different patterns, from empty acts and thoughts to complicated details and assumptions, more polished and creative imaginations.
After noticing the daily routines, the thoughts that are unnoticed , I have come to realise that certain things in my life needed to be noticed and focused more. The meal I have, the people and the sights on my way back home, seems to be different and more joyful than usual.
*the hallway at building 13 , was boring and empty to me 2 years ago. Now it has become one of my favourite place to relax, to think and to notice people and stuff.*
One must be attuned to fresh possibilities when they are needed and be alert to such a need through awareness of what is happening at any given time.
