ZHdK postgraduate students at a Nubian village on the Nile near Aswan, Egypt, 2009. Source: Lawrence Wallen
Some Notes on Past and Future of the (Practice) PhD

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10.31182/cubic.2024.7.66

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phd, decolonisation, postgraduate- research, collaboration, artistic -research

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This article traces the history of the PhD, the rise of the practice PhD and our experiences with implementing a practice-informed PhD programme between Vienna and Zurich, and it concludes with a reflection on some precarious parallels between the research , the methodology of a practice PhD and the decolonisation of research. Accompanying the article are images of our master’s and PhD candidates engaging globally in field research, archive research, creative practice and institutional and noninstitutional collaborations.

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Brejzek, T., & Wallen, L. (2024). Some Notes on Past and Future of the (Practice) PhD. Cubic Journal, 7(7), 24–33. https://doi.org/10.31182/cubic.2024.7.66

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2024-12-31

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No. 7 (2024): PhD Design and the Design PhD — In · Through · About

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Author Biographies

Thea Brejzek, University of Technology Sydney

Dr Thea Brejzek!is a Professor of Spatial Theory in the School of Architecture at UTS and a former Professor of Scenography at Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland. Her research engages with the construction of performative spaces in and across theatre, architecture, media, and exhibition. From 2014- 2024, Thea Brejzek was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bauhaus foundation Dessau and since 2022, Thea is the Co-Editor of Theatre & Performance Design. Recent Publications (co-authored with Lawrence Wallen) include: Virtual Models in Theatre, Art and Architecture, Bloomsbury: Making Worlds 2025 (in press,"Architecture, Model, Performance", In: On Models, e-flux architecture 2022; "Model & Fragment: On the Performance of Incomplete Architectures", In: Worldmodelling, Architectural Design 2021; The Model as Performance. Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture, Bloomsbury 2018.

Lawrence Wallen, The University of Sydney

Dr Lawrence Wallen! is an architect, artist and professor at the University of Technology Sydney. Formerly Professor at the Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland and Guest Artist at the ZKM. His scholarly writing (primarily a joint project with Thea Brejzek) explores the cosmopoietic and epistemological functions of the physical and virtual model in Art, Theatre and Architecture. His creative practice employs cross-disciplinary artistic strategies and performative readings, resulting in an extensive collection of Spaces, Books, Drawings and Performances that contribute to a discourse that explores and documents the enduring qualities of spaces that resonate beyond physical site within the broader discourses of world-making, decolonisation and biodiversity.

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