Ephemeral Architecture is a program embedded in the Graduate Program of the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT.

The program brings together Architects, Artists, Landscape Architects, Interior Designers and Sound Designers in a collaboration framed around a text by Cultural Historian Paul Carter. This text concerns the error of framing heritage as the creation of monumental structures, when what we wish to celebrate is a moment of the life lived in shade of such structures.

The collaborators will present designs representing 'remote occasions' in an event at the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts in October 2001. This event is curated by Juliana Engberg. There are four themes

1 Walking in the Way of Metaphors: city, space and narrative
2 This fragile monument: body, buildings, monuments
3 Towards a feminine sublime
4 Telling space

In October 2002 these same collaborators will construct their projects around RMIT Storey Hall Gallery as the 'outer skin' of an event which has at its core an exhibition of historical works and artist's collaborations.

Publications:
Associated publications of the Graduate Program are
Van Schaik, L. ed. Ruins of the Future, RMIT 2000
Van Schaik L. ed. Interstitial Modernism, RMIT 2000
Murray, S ed. 38 South ii, RMIT 2000