RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 1 2020

Fiction-ism Temitope Adesina Supervisors: Anna Jankovic & Andre Bonnice Fiction-ism is a critique of civic typology. This project concerns itself with the politics of the container, the singular objects of architecture and the positioning of that in relationship to art and the archive. It employs the typology of the museum as a lens of exploration, one with the ambition of developing a dialogue between Synchrony and the change in linguistic systems over time. As the name suggests, I’m interested in looking at methods and systems of using elements that are open to interpretation as tools to re-contextualise, clarify or confer validity.

The project reinstates itself as a presence on Swanston street in accordance with Harold Desbrowe’s “how to make Melbourne an ideal city” plan and advocates for a return of the archive to the object, one that challenges the” idealist” through re-presenting the known to the transient consumer of the metro and broader city.

The project re-orders and re-orients through adjacencies of space and contemporary icons, advocating for a re-reading of architecture and art within a historical, regulatory, and cultural framework. It uses elements to clarify order, order to emphasize the irregular and the irregular to highlight gaps between the object and the meaning implied on it.

Above all, this project is an indulgent study, a series of agitated observations of the architectural, social, political and geometrical. In this proposal, the built form adopts the role of both the container and the material in which knowledge is inscribed upon. A framework of microcosmic truths.

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