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Transnational and Temporary is a research project conducted by several key individuals. You can find out more by looking through these profiles.
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Ruth Fincher is Professor of Geography at the University of Melbourne, where previously she was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (2003-2006) and Professor of Urban Planning (1997-2006). She was Director of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne in the mid 1990s, and has held the positions of Assistant Professor of Geography at McGill University (Canada), and McMaster University (Canada). In the early 1990s, she worked as Research Manager in the Federal Government’s Bureau of Immigration Research. More Information
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Paul Carter is an interdisciplinary scholar whose books The Road to Botany Bay (1987) and The Lie of the Land (1996) established his international reputation as a pioneer of 'spatial history' and place-making. In addition, he has made an internationally-recognised contribution to the methodology of public space design in a number of leading papers and in a book, Material Thinking: Collaborative Realisation and the Art of Self-Becoming (2004). Paul also has a unique record of achievement as an artist working in the public sphere. More Information
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Paolo Tombesi is a former Fulbright Fellow, and has a PhD in architectural practice and regional development. In 2004, he was scholar in residence at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, where he co-taught International Practice. He is currently a research fellow at the Polytechnic of Turin. Over the last ten years, he has given over thirty public lectures, advanced seminars and keynote addresses around the world. He has taught in the USA, Italy and Spain, and has been a visiting critic in Austria, Switzerland and Costa Rica. More Information
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After working in production off-off-Broadway in New York in the mid-1980s, Kate Shaw returned to Melbourne to promote independent/alternative arts projects. She was swept into the local St Kilda politics of the time and spent the next ten years juggling theatre and festival publicity with community work and campaigns for cultural difference and equity in the city. More Information
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Transnational and Temporary also has a support team made up of Michele Lobo (Research Assistant), Andrew Martel (PhD candidate) and Gerard Pinto (Masters by Design candidate).
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