2004. SEM 1. Second & Third Year Elective.
Interior Design Program.
School of Architecture + Design. RMIT University.
Melbourne. Australia.
Christopher Kaltenbach. Erin O'Callaghan

Manifest was an elective course in the Interior Design program coordinated by Christopher Kaltenbach, Lecturer and Erin O'Callaghan, Artistic Director
of HE&EVE.

With a group of 13 students from the Interior Design program, a series of environments were constructed that not only challenged the conventions of sensory space but questioned the role designers play in this politically and socially volatile, and environmentally unstable period of Australian history.

The propositions that were developed from this elective were used to generate a one night event/installation staged at the Australian Centre for Contemporary
Art (ACCA) on July 28th, 2004.

A group of innovative national and international cultural producers were invited to collaborate with the students, they included furniture designer Matthew Butler
of Bluesquare, chef George Calombaris, new media designer and photographer Ross Hipwell, Tokyo designer Takeshi Ishiguro, and audio/visual designers
Gregory More and Jeremy Yuille.

The students were Sebastian Agricol, James Carey, Elena Critchley, Sun-Young Cho, Soledad Herrera, Kate Jackson, Raphael Kilpatrick, Mi Kyung Kim, Peter Knight, Christine Lilley, Mijeong Lee, Adam Paikos

The site given to the elective was ACCA. It is made up of four galleries. The design propositions correspond to the four galleries of ACCA.

To see the final installations go to
'Manifest: S.I.E.V.' page.