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Vacant Geelong

2015–2017 · Geelong

Five researchers with a stacked sculpture of coloured acrylic blocks in the Iconic Industry exhibition
The #VacantGeelong team at Iconic Industry: Cameron Bishop, David Beynon, Mirjana Lozanovska, Diego Fullaondo and Anne Scott Wilson

Vacant Geelong was a creative exploration of Geelong’s industrial identity and its vacated industrial sites, led by Mirjana Lozanovska in Deakin University’s School of Architecture and Built Environment. Anne Scott Wilson was part of the group of researchers, architects and artists.

The group researched with local communities, running workshops where architects, artists and locals reimagined the city through shared making, to start conversations and inspire imagination. A symposium at the National Wool Museum brought architects and locals together to reimagine Geelong.

The researchers curated and showed work in Iconic Industry at the National Wool Museum, made work for Geelong After Dark, and published the book Iconic Industry: Exploring the Industrial Built Fabric of Geelong, in which Anne Scott Wilson and Cameron Bishop wrote a chapter.

Visitors in the exhibition hall of the National Wool Museum under a hanging silver ceiling work
Iconic Industry, National Wool Museum, Geelong, 2017
Red Iconic Industry flyer: 24 August to 1 October, National Wool Museum, 26 Moorabool Street Geelong
Iconic Industry: Exploring the Built Fabric of Geelong, 24 August – 1 October 2017
An artist pins drawings of factory buildings to a brick wall
#VacantGeelong Open Studio Day, North Geelong, 24 May 2017
A painting of grain silos on an easel in the studio
#VacantGeelong Open Studio Day, North Geelong, 24 May 2017
Cover of the book Iconic Industry, with a line drawing of a factory
Iconic Industry: Exploring the Industrial Built Fabric of Geelong (book)

Images: Architecture Vacancy Lab, Deakin University

Years
2015–2017
Role
Research with local communities, workshops, curation, writing
Exhibition
Iconic Industry, National Wool Museum, Geelong, 24 August – 1 October 2017 (co-curator)
Support
Creative Victoria and the City of Greater Geelong
Book
Iconic Industry: Exploring the Industrial Built Fabric of Geelong. Chapter with Cameron Bishop