Antonia Bruns Medal Semester 2, 2018 Supervisor Statement: Louis' project titled 'Beyond the Selfie', both questions and embraces the implications that social media has on architecture. It creates a taxonomy of Melbourne's most instagrammable architecture that are reformed and reconstituted across the city square site as a series of episodic moments that are both instagrammable and experiential. Placing the familiar in an unfamiliar setting, 'Beyond the Selfie' creates a new civic architecture, layered with memories of Melbourne where we become the actors, the city is our stage and Instagram is our global theatre. _ Dr. Christine Phillips
Beyond the Selfie
Louis Nuccitelli Supervisor: Dr. Christine Phillips
Social media has inherently allowed us to create cities that are no longer for us. Cities, once places imagined through stories and first-hand experiences, are now constructed through a patchwork of imagery fed to us via social media. We carry multiple cities in our pockets populated by the views of people we may never know. What are the architectural consequences of this condition? My major project explores this through a re-assemblage of Melbourne as a unified whole; a cultural quilt of what is deemed “instagrammable”. This taxonomy of fragments of Melbourne’s architecture are re-formed and dispersed across the former Melbourne City Square. Placing the familiar in an unfamiliar setting to create a new civic architecture, layered with a collective memory of Melbourne. “Beyond The Selfie” is presented as what happens when we put our phone back in our pockets. Within the scenes, plays carry on within the play. Where we are the actors and the city is our stage, Instagram is our global theatre.
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