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Dr Jennifer Scott

Acting Course Leader, Masters of Architecture (RIBA/ARB Part 1)B.Arch., MA, PhD, FHEA
Email me: jscott@aub.ac.uk

Overview

Jennifer has worked for a range of large and medium architectural practices both in Australia and the UK, before and during moving into teaching in 2006 and research in 2013. Professional experience included award winning projects include the Western Australian Maritime Museum, The Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Swan Brewery heritage redevelopment, Perth and the Capitol Square heritage redevelopment, Sydney.

She brings her extensive professional experience in architectural design, masterplanning and artistic collaboration to her work. Jennifer has worked on a diverse range of architectural projects, including residential, civic, health, mixed-use developments, commercial, education, and urban design. The scope of her experience traverses master planning and conceptual design, through to detail design, documentation, and contract administration and design coordination and project management.

Headshot of Jennifer

Contact:

Name: Dr Jennifer Scott she/her
Email: jscott@aub.ac.uk
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9347-7486

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • PhD Architecture (The University of Western Australia)
  • MA Art Therapy (Edith Cowan University)
  • BArch (Hons) (The University of Sydney)
  • BA Architecture (Hons) (Kingston University)
  • PGCert HE

Teaching Qualification

  • PG Certificate (Creative Education) (University for the Creative Arts)

Teaching

Jennifer focuses on teaching at the interface of design and technology across the undergraduate and postgraduate architecture courses at AUB. Before arriving at AUB in January 2019, Jennifer previously taught at The University of Western Australia, The Urban Design Centre of Western Australia (AUDRC) and Curtin University of Technology across Undergraduate and Postgraduate Architectural and Urban Design Courses.

Publications and Conference Papers

  • “Playing with Place: Forrest Place”, Architect Magazine: September 2019, Australian Institute of Architects, WA chapter
  • “Collecting, Arranging, Disseminating: the curatorial space of Kettle’s Yard”, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) 2018 Conference, Perth, Australia
  • “The ‘Potential Space’ of Kettle’s Yard”, British Psychoanalytic Association 2015 Conference, UCL, London, UK.
  • “Jugs, Mugs, and Goblets; comments on Marion Milner’s artistic insights” Forthcoming 2022 book chapter, Marion Milner Traditions, Margaret Spelman Boyle.
  • Harrison, L., Hawes, E., Page, A., Peng, B., Scott, J. and Sheldon, M. (2021) Decolonising Assessment Toolkit. Journal of Useful Investigations in Higher Education.

Art/Community Experience

  • 2010 Solo exhibition, SKINS @ Cullity Gallery, UWA, Stirling Highway, Crawley WA
  • 2004, 2005, 2006 Group exhibitions – The Architectural Eye – Old George Gallery, East Fremantle, Perth WA
  • 2005 Bayswater Primary School: Art Therapy Practicum Placement, Western Australia
  • 2005 Royal Perth Hospital Burns Unit: Art Therapy Practicum Placement, Western Australia
  • 2005–16 Uthando Project, Grass roots charity project

Courses

Research

Research Interests and Projects

Jennifer completed her PhD at The University of Western Australia which researched the links between the British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott and British modernist art and architecture. The PhD research at UWA was funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award.

This research is a synthesis of historical research, experiences in architectural practice and ideas that surfaced during the completion of a Master of Art Therapy. The PhD research applied Donald Winnicott’s theory of ‘potential space’ to three examples of Modernist architecture: Kettle’s Yard, The Royal Festival Hall and the Dominican Monastery of La Tourette.

Each of these three buildings demonstrate traditional building types (gallery, concert hall and church) that have been translated into modernist spatial forms. Winnicott’s observations of infants playing emphasised a dynamic spatial aspect to psychoanalytic theory that has been influential in therapeutic contexts since the 1950s. The resulting evidence for the theoretical interconnections between Winnicottian psychoanalysis and modernist architecture and art reveal a shared emphasis on the dynamic subjectivity and plasticity of space.

Awards and Prizes

Notable awards/prizes

Academic (The University of Western Australia)

  • Australian Postgraduate Award 2013–16 (PhD)
  • University Postgraduate Award 2012–13 (PhD)
  • University Postgraduate Travel Award, 2015 (PhD)
  • UWA Teaching Excellence, Nomination 2018
Award NameDate AwardedDetails
Old Swan Brewery Renovation2005
Master Builders’ Heritage Award2005
Heritage Council of Western Australia Citation for Excellence2005
George Temple Poole Award2002

Western Australian Maritime Museum

Public Institutional Award2003

RAIA WA

Excellence in Construction Award2003

RAIA WA

Fremantle Heritage Award2003

Masters Builders Association

Australian Construction Achievement Award2003
High Commendation, Public and Commercial Buildings2003
Australian Timber Design Awards2002

High Commendation

Australian Timber Design Awards2002

Best Use of Timber Engineering

Memberships

Advance HE Membership

  • Fellow (FHEA)