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‘The third university is one that seeks to dismantle existing colonial structures and systems, and reassembles these components to generate a new institution for the post-work and post-university. The project will provide space for the conflicting bodies of the conversation that surrounds land use and responsibility, to make and negotiate their claim, as well as providing agency for the rhetoric that is currently considered to be valid in this, and the proposition of other forms as newly validated evidence. The project does not follow the existing narrative of education that attempts to prepare students for their predetermined role in industry and the commodification of these individuals, but instead seeks to facilitate a symposium for this singular thematic, and the wider range of conversations that will effectively explore this.
Access to the site is, initially, made only through a series of intersecting circulation paths, bored through the post-industrial contaminated ground to key aspects within the city, providing the most diverse input for these discussions, as direct channels of discourse. These tunnels will connect such infrastructures as Wynyard Station, for it’s role in the conversation of the site and for more general access, while other tunnels will connect such bodies as UTS, creating a more directed and concentrated influence of the voice of students in the symposium. The contaminated ground of the construction of these tunnels is then piled on top of the structure to fill in it’s outer facade, creating a stark contrast and violent statement to the interior soil, and stands in opposition to the corporate iconography of Barangaroo. A second series of tunnels protrude from the interior skin and can be used to explore the shifting stratigraphy of this contaminated ground. The interior exists as a pleasure garden of the symposium; a fertile space where, just as the natural elements grow, wither, decay, and become nutrients for new life to grow, the knowledge and conceptual exposition will recognize the failures of the exchange as being as formative as the successes.
Over time, the contaminated ground of the exterior, and the internal, fertile soil, will merge and dissolve one another, perforating the fine mesh between them. As they slowly decay over the surrounds of the site, the structure becomes accessible from the ground level of the site, revealing a monolithic shell of the former machine of discourse, as a ruin of the post-university enactment.’