Jock Gilbert

Jock coordinates the Lower Pool Design Studio stream in the Landscape Architecture program at RMIT and has led Design Studio based projects in Vietnam, East Africa and regional and remote Australia. He also teaches into the Theoretical Frameworks and Elective streams. Jock has an abiding interest in the unrepresentable and fleeting nature of the formless sublime thought and its relationship to landscape through the stories of the everyday. He is currently engaged in design research practice which seeks the elevation of these stories, through the mapping, to the scale of the epic through a ‘working of the ground’ in a series of regional community-based projects located in Western New South Wales. These projects seek to open a transformative space of encounter through the active blending of methodologies and the interpretive juxtaposition of stories, ontologies and knowledge systems, engendering collaboration and participation in the development of frameworks for future endeavours with concrete, realisable outcomes.