Richard J. Goodwin

File:"Mobius Sea" by Goodwin (1986).jpg

Goodwin is the director of Richard Goodwin Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based practice that has evolved from performance art to sculpture, installations, parasitic architecture and freeway infrastructure. Goodwin's artwork is held in major collections including the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney and regional galleries across Australia.[http://www.richard-goodwin.com Richard Goodwin Pty Ltd]
- {{cite web|title=Works by Richard Goodwin|url=http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=goodwin-richard|publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales|access-date=8 May 2013}} He regularly consults on major infrastructure projects such as bridges and freeway walls.

Goodwin's core agenda is creating what he calls "porosity". He argues, "Security seeks to close a city down. Porosity seeks to open it up. Somewhere between the two a solution must be found within our capitalist system. If we can't find the balance, they'll close the cities and cities will die".{{cite book|title=Richard Goodwin: Performance to Porosity|year=2006|publisher=Craftsman House|location=Australia|pages=8–11|author=Wilson, G.|author2=Benjamin, A. |author3=Tawa, M. |author4=Helsel, S. |chapter=Introduction to 'Performance to Porosity'}} In practicing this agenda, he tests the functional and aesthetic boundaries of public space through both art and architecture. He has opened up new dimensions in the planning of urban spaces and the way architecture interacts with its physical and cultural context.

In 1996, Goodwin established the Porosity Studio at COFA . The studio enquires into the way patterns of inhabiting and moving through the cities weaves a level of political richness into the fabric of architecture.{{cite web|title=Porosity|url=http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/research/research-units/porosity|publisher=COFA|access-date=8 May 2013}} Since 2004 the studios have been supported by a number of cooperations, such as the British Council. They have been run as intensive workshops internationally in cities such as Glasgow, Cardiff, Milan, Beijing and Rotterdam.{{cite web|title=This years British Council Cityscapers studio|url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/archi/news_cityscape.php|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130706193343/http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/archi/news_cityscape.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 July 2013|publisher=Welsh School of Architecture|access-date=8 May 2013}}

The Australian Research Council (ARC)'s prestigious Discovery Grant{{cite web|title=Real-time Porosity: Using computer gaming technology to map and analyse pedestrian movement in public and private space.|url=http://researchdata.ands.org.au/real-time-porosity-using-computer-gaming-technology-to-map-and-analyse-pedestrian-movement-in-public-and-private-space|publisher=Research Data Australia|access-date=8 May 2013}} was awarded to Goodwin in 2002. The research project argued for 'Porosity' as a way of describing an urban experience which turns the building inside out and de-emphasises the obsession with facades. The outcome of the research opened up an entire new chapter in the way the fabric of the city is viewed by civic authorities. The ARC awarded Richard Goodwin again in 2009 with a Linkage Grant to develop the research further through sensors and gaming engine technologies in collaboration with Russell Lowe and the Emergency Information Coordination Unit (EICU) run under the NSW Department of Lands.{{cite web|title=Real-Time Porosity|url=http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au/environment-and-sustainability/projects/real-time-porosity|publisher=NIEA|access-date=8 May 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504174805/http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au/environment-and-sustainability/projects/real-time-porosity|archive-date=4 May 2013|df=dmy-all}}

Goodwin is the author of Porosity: the Architecture of Invagination{{cite book|url=|title=Porosity: The Architecture of Invagination|last=Goodwin|first=Richard|publisher=Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT|year=2011|isbn=9781921426865|location=Melbourne}} and has published many articles on issues of public space,{{cite journal|last=Goodwin|first=Richard|title=Porosity, the revision of public space in the city using public art to test the functional boundaries of built form|journal=Architectural Design Research|year=2007|volume=2|pages=37–96|editor1-first=Brent|editor1-last=Allpress|publisher=RMIT University Press|issn=1448-9007}}
- {{cite journal|last=Goodwin|first=Richard|title=Porosity: mapping the dissolution of the public / private dichotomy|journal=Architectural Review|year=2008|issue=105}}
- {{cite journal|last=Goodwin|first=Richard|author2=Lowe, R. |title=Real-time porosity using computer gaming technology|journal=Automation in Construction|year=2010|volume=20|issue=3|pages=279–288|doi=10.1016/j.autcon.2010.10.006}} and chapters in collected works.{{cite book|last=Goodwin|first=Richard|title=Fashion Industry & City Civilization|year=2010|publisher=DongHua University Press|location=Shanghai|isbn=978-7-81111-717-2|pages=96–143|editor=Xiangyang, B.|chapter=Pig-Skin, Wheels and Cement}}
- {{cite book|title=Now and When|year=2010|publisher=The Australian Institute of Architects|location=ACT Australia|author=Goodwin, R. |author2=Benjamin, A. |author3=Reinmuth, G. |chapter=Sydney 2050 : Fraying Ground}}
- {{cite book|title=Visions Of The Future Living : Futuristic|year=2011|publisher=DAAB Media GMBH|location=Cologne, Germany|author=Goodwin, R.|editor=Klein, C.|chapter=Sydney2050: Fraying Ground}} Moreover, a number of articles{{cite journal|last=Jasper|first=Adam|title=Richard Goodwin's Phantom Itch|journal=Art and Australia|year=2011|volume=49}}
- {{cite journal|last=Thomas|first=Nicole|title=Transgressive Transformation|journal=Monument|date=December 2011|volume=106}}
- {{cite journal|last=Stead|first=Naomi|title=Hybrid Vigour|journal=Architecture Australia|date=November 2005}} and books{{cite book|last=Allen|first=C.|title=Richard Goodwin|year=1991|publisher=Oliver Freeman Editions|location=Sydney|author2=Bond, A. |author3=Delaruelle, J. }} have been published on his work.

• National Sculpture Award (1985)
• Street Story Award for Glebe Island Arterial (2001)
• Sculpture by the Sea Prize (2003)
• Helen Lempriere Award (2004)
• Blackett Award for Shellharbour Workers Club (2004)
• Commendation Urban Design award for RTA Prototype Toilets (2008)
• AIA Tasmania Chapter, Colorbond Award for Wing House (2009)
• Wynne Prize from the Art Gallery of NSW (2011)

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• [http://www.richard-goodwin.com Richard Goodwin Pty Ltd]
• [http://www.daao.org.au/bio/richard-goodwin/biography Professor Richard Goodwin at Design and Art Australia Online]
• [http://www.australiangalleries.com.au/artists/9-artists/113-richardgoodwin Richard Goodwin at Australian Galleries]

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