Lecturer in Architecture, Heritage and Media, Deakin University
Cristina Garduño Freeman is an Early Career Researcher and Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University, Australia. Her research focuses on the role of representations as evidence of, and instruments in, forms of participation with architecture, heritage and media. She received the 2014 International Visual Sociology Association Rieger Award for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis. She has published in the International Journal of Heritage Studies, Architectural Theory Review, and in the edited collection Nexus: New Intersections in Internet Research. Other projects include CmyView an app and methodology for participation and social value, Super Sydney, a community project that aims to build a metropolitan conversation through social engagement, and The Lost Street, a creative collaboration exploring contemporary participation with demolished buildings of Sydney. Cristina is also a multidisciplinary designer and has practiced professionally in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design, and in visual communication design.
How crowdfunding can connect people to their heritage and community
Dec 28, 2016 01:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Life
The glistening white sails of Sydney Opera House and the red brick and bluestone of Geelongs industrial mills have little in common at first glance. But for both these places crowdfunding has led people to connect with...
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