The Victorian Premier’s Design Awards finalists have been announced with Carr Graduate Interior Designer Anh Tran shortlisted in the Student Design category.
Anh’s shortlisted project ‘Otherworldly Expedition: The Sentient City’ is an immersive ecological experience, situated at the home of the Balayang (Grey-headed Flying Fox) at Yarra Bend Park, Kew. The project combines virtual reality technologies, cinematic experiences, immersive theatre, and climate change issues such as deforestation and species decline to foster connections between human and nonhuman life.
The project aims to encourage greater environmental consciousness and feelings of interconnectedness by integrating emergent technologies and digital narrative techniques. The project provides opportunities for participants to gauge the extreme degree of ecological issues in a memorable and meaningful way, hoping to facilitate change through embodied understanding.
This project was developed by RMIT Architecture and Urban Design: Interior Design, Anh Tran and Dr. Andy Miller (Supervisor).
All Finalists are now in the running to be recognised with the Victorian Premier’s Design Award Best in Category accolade and the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Design Award of the Year – the state’s highest design accolade.
Winners of the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards will be announced on Tuesday 19 November at the Official Awards Ceremony held in Melbourne.
Congratulations and good luck Anh!
