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1) Research Interests

My research examines the question of context in relation to the borders of an eccentric subjectivity, using a ‘found’ methodology to instigate and examine the visceral space of narrative. This research finds agency in, and is playfully described by, contiguous textual and project based work.

PhD Candidate SIAL, RMIT – CURRENT via RMIT Postgraduate Scholarship
supervisors
1.Dr Hélène Frichot, Senior Lecturer Architecture Design, RMIT, helene.frichot@rmit.edu.au

Bachelor of Architecture (1st Class Honors), RMIT 2007
Thesis Project ‘A Clinic for the Exhausted / A Dream Play’

2) publication details and folio

(2007) A Clinic for the Exhausted / A Dream Play….

2007 Architecture Australia Unbuilt Awards (Competition Winner)

Published:

Peer Reviewed Paper
Spooner, Michael, (2010) ‘A Clinic for the Exhausted’ in AG3 (Arakawa and Gins Third International Conference), ag3.griffith.edu.au/.Abstract peer reviewed.

Frichot, Dr. Helene (Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University) & Spooner, Michael, (2010) ‘A Clinic for the Exhausted: An Architectural Exploration of the Imaginary Techniques of Raymond Roussel’. Peer reviewed abstract accepted, full paper due 1 April, 2010. ERA Ranking A.

-2007 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work, Architecture Australia, Jan/Feb , 2008, Vol. 97,
No. 1. pp 82-96.
-Zilka, Leanne (Ed) Para, RMIT Architecture Thesis Projects 2006-2007, School of Architecture + Design RMIT University, pp.34-39.

Presentation:
-RAIA ’Film, Architecture and Cinema’ at Process, Melbourne
-SIAL ‘Drink and Think’, Melbourne

(2006) Playground: A Manifesto for Giants / Hotmotherfucker: Giants as an Object of Desire

-2006 RAIA Colorbond Steel Student Biennale (Competition Winner)

Published:
- 2006 RAIA Colorbond Steel Student Biennale Publication Catalogue
- Architecture Australia, Nov/Dec 2006

Exhibited:
-2006 RAIA Colorbond steel Student Biennale Traveling Exhibition

Have You Seen It? (Urban Installation + Publication)
State of Design Festival Victoria, Melbourne, (2008) Rochus Urban Hinkel, Hélène Frichot, Laurene Vaughan with Ashley Perry and Michael Spooner.

Bigolin, Ricarda & Spooner, Michael, ‘for what it’s worth’, Craft Victoria, 9 September -17 October 2010, Melbourne.

Spooner, Michael, Inclusion in the exhibition "Constellations: A Large number of Small drawings at RMIT Gallery 8 April – 26 June 2010.

Frichot, Dr. Helene (Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University) & Spooner, Michael, “Shelter: On Kindness, review” in Architecture Australia (2010)