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Radical Observations of Thought (ROT) Magazine is a not-for-profit curatorial platform. Design interacts with many adjacent disciplines, such as the construction industry, the public sector, research, and innovation. We aim to promote critical discussion and discourse between young designers and industry professionals with a variety of experiences.
Contributors will engage with difficult and sensitive questions through provocations on the built environment, object design, and culture. Design and design research is often exclusionary, alienating even the intended audience, and limiting the impact of design outcomes and their real-world applications. We aim to foster engagement with new perspectives, encouraging emerging practitioners to expand independent knowledge acquisition.
ROT Magazine acknowledges that we work, live, and practice on stolen lands and that the sovereignty of these lands was never ceded. We will strive to move towards reciprocal relationships with Traditional Owners and First Nations people of this land.Editorial Team
Cheyenne D’Costa (they/them)
Cheyenne D’Costa is an architectural assistant based in Melbourne. They completed their Bachelor’s of Architecture at RMIT University in 2022, and have since been working full/part-time at Denton Corker Marshall while undertaking their Masters. They have 2 and a half years of professional experience in the architecture-sphere and have worked across various typologies such as medium-scale social housing, to large-scale infrastructure, during Alliance projects at Denton Corker Marshall, as well as with social and political groups throughout their time at the Not-For-Profit practice OFFICE. Additionally, they are a mentor at RMIT University, working alongside various tutors in teaching the first-year bachelor students.
Chantel Jee-Shin Wong (she/her)
Chantel Jee-Shin Wong works at Kerstin Thompson Architects as an architectural assistant and is concurrently completing her Master of Architecture at RMIT University. She is interested in community / people-based design and the importance of collaboration in built-environment projects. Chantel has experience in medium and large-scale multi-residential projects, working with different occupancy types such as social housing and student housing.
Lucy Read (she/they)
Lucy Read is currently studying for her Masters of Architecture at Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark through an exchange partnership with RMIT. She completed her Bachelor of Architecture from RMIT in 2023 and before moving abroad, worked part-time as an RMIT Concierge in the administration department. Lucy has undertaken internships at MGS Architects and Bruce Allan Architects throughout her studies.
Design Team
Nicholas Gleeson (he/they)
Nicholas Gleeson is a designer and cultural producer based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
He is one-third of the interdisciplinary design agency 0-Ln which
is an independent creative practice focused on the development of contemporary design, branding, media and art direction. Nicholas aims to produce work that combines contemporary aesthetics with a research-led methodology,
creating meaningful design expressions that cater to the needs of modern practice.
Timon Meury (he/him)
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Gilda Jones (she/her)
Gilda Jones is an artist and filmmaker who resides and works on the
traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin
Nation. Her installation BOXedOUT (2024) won Gold for cinematography
at the Australian Cinematography Society awards and was exhibited
as part of the MPavilion Program 2024. Her film My Bubble Wrapped
Exorcism (2022) also garnered acclaim as the winner of the Best Short
Film Award at the Inspired Dance Film Festival and received a nomination for Best Music for a Short Film at the Australian Screen Music Awards.