astronomy

Pia Ednie-Brown

Pia Ednie-Brown is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Pia Ednie-Brown rather than just read about it. In short: Pia Ednie-Brown is an Australian architectural theorist, researcher, and creative practitioner. She is also Professor of Architecture and Chair of Creative Practice Research at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Pia Ednie-Brown is an Australian architectural theorist, researcher, and creative practitioner. She is also Professor of Architecture and Chair of Creative Practice Research at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Pia maintains the creative research practice onomatopoeia, established in 2000, and leads the cross-institutional Affective Environments Laboratory.

Early life and family Ednie-Brown grew up in Perth, Western Australia. She completed her Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Western Australia in 1990.

Career Ednie-Brown completed her doctoral thesis The Aesthetics of Emergence at RMIT in 2008 through the multi-disciplinary SIAL (Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory) Archived 1 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine, where she also taught and was engaged as a researcher. Between 2009 and 2011, she led an Australian Research Council Discovery project (with Mark Burry and others). Her early primary research concerns lay in emergent design and digital practices. She is interested in practice-based research as well, and organised a symposium called Practice in Research/Research in Practice at Bond University in 2017. Her "Avery Green", a small terrace house extensions and renovation in Melbourne designed as part of Ednie-Brown's creative practice, onomatopoeia, is an investigation into ideas about nonhuman personhood, transformation and ownership. Analogous to the protected area Te Urewera, Ednie-Brown conceived of the house as self-owned, having personhood, and designed it to correspond with the local ecology and geology. She served on the editorial board of Fibreculture journal, an open source academic journal dedicated to the contexts philosophy and politics of contemporary media technologies and events. She is on the advisory board of Inflexions, a journal for research creation, an open-access journal for research-creation sponsored by the Sense Lab. Pia was previously an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, where she taught and researched extensively.

Awards awarded Australian Council of Graduate Research National Award for Excellence in Graduate Leadership, 2018 awarded RMIT University Award for Excellence – Graduate Research Leadership, 2017 PhD shortlisted with three others for RIBA Presidents Medal: Outstanding Thesis, 2008 Honorary Mention in Prix Ars Electronica 2005, for Intimate Transactions, multi-user interactive installation, 2005 10th Annual BHERT Award: awarded to the Telstra Home Team at the Interactive Information Institute (of which she was a team member in 1999) for "Outstanding Achievement in Collaboration in Education and Training," 2000

Notable events and exhibitions 'Letters to the Mayor' group show, 2014, Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York City, United States

Books The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality, (with Mark Burry, Andrew Burrow) (eds). Architectural Design Profile No 221, H. Castle (series ed.), London: Wiley, 2013. ISBN 978-1-119-97865-7 Plastic Green: designing for environmental transformation, (ed.), RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, 2009. ISBN 9781921426070

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Pia Ednie-Brown

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Pia Ednie-Brown claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Pia Ednie-Brown before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Pia Ednie-Brown ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Pia Ednie-Brown

In research: Pia Ednie-Brown appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Pia Ednie-Brown in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Pia Ednie-Brown is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic staff of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Academic staff of the University of Newcastle (Australia), Architectural theoreticians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Pia Ednie-Brown outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Pia Ednie-Brown in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Pia Ednie-Brown matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Pia Ednie-Brown?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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