Kathy Waghorn
Kathy Waghorn | |
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| Born | 1970 Ōmata, Taranaki Region, New Zealand |
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| Alma mater | University of Auckland RMIT University |
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| Institutions | University of Auckland AUT Monash University |
Kathy Waghorn (born 1970)[1] is a New Zealand architectural academic, artist and curator based in New Zealand.[2] She is the director of the social enterprise company HOOPLA.
Biography[edit]
Waghorn is from Ōmata, a settlement in Taranaki, New Zealand.[3] She graduated with a BArch from the University of Auckland and in 2017 received a PhD from RMIT University for her thesis, "The practice of feeling for place: a compendium for an expanded Architecture".[4]
Waghorn is co-director with Nina Patel of HOOPLA, an Auckland social enterprise, established in 2013.[3] HOOPLA and Waghorn were recognised in 2023 at the A+W Dulux Awards winning the Munro Diversity Award which celebrates those who support diversity in the field of architecture.[5] The judges said: "Dr. Kathy Waghorn is a highly esteemed academic whose work over many decades has constantly challenged the ideas of practice and pedagogy."[6]
She has taught at the University of Auckland, then at Huri Te Ao, The School of Future Environments at AUT.[3] She is associate professor in the architecture department at Monash University, Naarm / Melbourne.[3] As a teacher the community engagement work of HOOPLA 'underpins' her pedagogy.[7]
As an artist curator Waghorn created Muddy Urbanism, at the Auckland Triennial (2013)[3] and the New Zealand pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 15th International Architecture Exhibition.[8]
A 2019 project was exhibition and book Making Ways, Alternative Architectural Practice in Aotearoa at Objectspace Auckland.[9] Waghorn was co-curator and co-editor along with architectural lecturer Mike Davis. In the work is themes of resistance to a capitalist, political economy and how architectural and design can do this.[9]
Selected publications[edit]
- Making Ways: Alternative Architectural Practice in Aotearoa (2019) - book, Co-edited with Mike Davis, published by Objectspace[9]
- A transformative architectural pedagogy and tool for a time of converging crises, journal article (2022), A Yates, M Pedersen Zari, S Bloomfield, A Burgess, C Walker, K Waghorn. Urban Science 7 (1), 1
References[edit]
- ^ "Waghorn, Kathy, 1970–". viaf.org. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ "Associate Professor Kathy Waghorn". Monash University.
- ^ a b c d e "About". Hoopla. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ Waghorn, Kathy E. (March 2017). The practice of feeling for place: a compendium for an expanded Architecture (PhD thesis). RMIT University. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ "Winners: A+W•NZ Dulux Awards 2023". Architecture Now. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ "AWNZ". AWNZ. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ Cox, Elizabeth (1 January 2022), "Endlessly Creative: Academics and Architectural Writers", Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture, retrieved 19 May 2024
- ^ "Reporting from the front". Architecture Now. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ a b c "Review: Making Ways: Alternative Architectural Practice in Aotearoa". Architecture Now. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
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