Kyle Bush

kyle.bush@rmit.edu.au

Kyle’s teaching and research focuses on post-mining landscapes undergoing transition and critical design pedagogies using methods of co-production and relationality to cultivate appropriate cultures of design practice for a dynamic and contested world. Techniques of narrative production through critical mapping, collage/montage, animation, and deliberative dialogues form the basis of his approach.

Kyle has collaborated with industry partners and researchers to address the exclusion of communities from shared processes and narratives during periods of transition, through projects that build capacity and distribute agency. Collaborators have included the Mine Land Rehabilitation Authority (MLRA), Engie Australia, MPavilion, Melbourne Design Week, QUT Art Gallery, Landscape Australia magazine, the RMIT Design Archives, and colleagues in RMIT Landscape Architecture.

Kyle’s most significant projects include ‘settlement’? or invasion., which was exhibited in the 2022 Thinking into Being: QUT Alumni Triennial at QUT Art Gallery, ‘Running Interference in Landscapes of Extraction,’ published in the 2022 edition of Kerb Journal, Look Out Beyond the Void, an industry partnered design studio in collaboration with MLRA and Engie Australia (2021-ongoing), and the Pedagogies for Future Practice event series in collaboration with Dr. Alice Lewis (2021-ongong).

Kyle is a current PhD candidate. Read more about his research here