I am an artist and academic whose focus is on research projects related to visual storytelling, comics and psychogeography. I have a Ph.D in Architecture and Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. My work takes the form of illustrations and art books and is inspired by the different cities I have lived in.
contact: dcgrunewald@gmail.com
contact: dcgrunewald@gmail.com
Exhibitions, publications and research papers
Interdisciplinary archival practices: An archive of creative observation, 2018
This paper describes the process of developing an urban archive that exists as a tool for continued creative observation of the alleyways of District 4, HCMC, Vietnam.
Super Tight exhibition, Design Hub Gallery, Melbourne 2019
Co-curated by Graham Crist, John Doyle and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. Super Tight draws on the work of Crist and Doyle looking to Asia from their position as architects and academics in Australia and the celebrated built projects and research of Tsukamoto, co-founder of Japanese architecture studio Atelier Bow-Wow. Super Tight explores the culture of spatial tightness emerging in Asian cities and its creative potential.
Of the sacred and the domestic,
Portfolio special mention call 'SACRED. THE EXPERIENCE OF BEYOND', on Urbanautica Publisher, 2019.
Collecting pictures of the small altars that inhabitants of Vietnamese alleys place outside their houses. A sequenced viewing of the altars displaying a reel of sacred still lifes that reminds our spiritual connection that transcends barriers of language and culture.
HO CHI MINH CITY ABSTRACTED PhD thesis, Ho Chi Minch City, 2021
A creative exploration of the urban vernacular. PhD thesis with RMIT Australia. Exploring new narratives of overlooked areas of the city in extinction.
HO CHI MINH CITY ABSTRACTED exhibition, The Factory of Contemporary Arts, Ho Chi Minh City, 2021
Vietnamese Vernacular Neighbourhoods: Multifunctional Space, 12th international convention of Asia Scholars ICAS, Kyoto Seika University, 2021
Methodologies for Creative Explorations of Vernacular Architecture Through Visual Synecdoches: A Ho Chi Minh City Study, 12th international convention of Asia Scholars ICAS, Kyoto Seika University, 2021
Supertight: Models for Living and Making Culture in Dense Urban Environments, Graham Christ, John Doyle, Tom Muratore, Actar, 2022.
Chapter collaboration.
Interdisciplinary archival practices: An archive of creative observation, 2018
This paper describes the process of developing an urban archive that exists as a tool for continued creative observation of the alleyways of District 4, HCMC, Vietnam.
Super Tight exhibition, Design Hub Gallery, Melbourne 2019
Co-curated by Graham Crist, John Doyle and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. Super Tight draws on the work of Crist and Doyle looking to Asia from their position as architects and academics in Australia and the celebrated built projects and research of Tsukamoto, co-founder of Japanese architecture studio Atelier Bow-Wow. Super Tight explores the culture of spatial tightness emerging in Asian cities and its creative potential.
Of the sacred and the domestic,
Portfolio special mention call 'SACRED. THE EXPERIENCE OF BEYOND', on Urbanautica Publisher, 2019.
Collecting pictures of the small altars that inhabitants of Vietnamese alleys place outside their houses. A sequenced viewing of the altars displaying a reel of sacred still lifes that reminds our spiritual connection that transcends barriers of language and culture.
HO CHI MINH CITY ABSTRACTED PhD thesis, Ho Chi Minch City, 2021
A creative exploration of the urban vernacular. PhD thesis with RMIT Australia. Exploring new narratives of overlooked areas of the city in extinction.
HO CHI MINH CITY ABSTRACTED exhibition, The Factory of Contemporary Arts, Ho Chi Minh City, 2021
Vietnamese Vernacular Neighbourhoods: Multifunctional Space, 12th international convention of Asia Scholars ICAS, Kyoto Seika University, 2021
Methodologies for Creative Explorations of Vernacular Architecture Through Visual Synecdoches: A Ho Chi Minh City Study, 12th international convention of Asia Scholars ICAS, Kyoto Seika University, 2021
Supertight: Models for Living and Making Culture in Dense Urban Environments, Graham Christ, John Doyle, Tom Muratore, Actar, 2022.
Chapter collaboration.