Explore Celia’s top design in Top Design
Celia Davidson's (OW2019) clever design for a subterranean house has been selected for the Top Designs exhibition, on display at Melbourne Museum. And you can explore it from your own home.
While the world continues to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and transition planning, the world’s museums and galleries have gone ‘cyber’ and you have the chance to virtually explore their spaces and exhibitions, including the Melbourne Museum Top Designs showcase, from your own home.
Melbourne Museum has put their much-anticipated Top Designs showcase online, with a virtual tour of the exhibition and interviews with students. Top Designs features a selection of works – including posters, articulated robot arms and films – designed by Victoria’s most talented VCE students from 2019 including our very own Celia Davidson (OW2019).
If you're able to visit in-person, Melbourne Museum intends to reopen on 27 June. (Please check their website for visitor limits and information before you visit.) And if you can't make it to the museum, you can still view the exhibition online.
From underground to the top
On display are Celia’s designs for a subterranean house, complete with library and modern bathroom, which formed part of her final VCE project. Working with a client brief, Celia employed the design process and applied design thinking to produce a series of visual communication presentations including her house design and environmental awareness posters.
Why a subterranean house?
‘A flippant joke with my dad about “doomsday preppers” and underground bunkers led to a theoretical discussion on everyone being forced underground due to climate change,’ Celia explains. ‘I always knew that I wanted to focus on environmental design and the question then became what sort of environmental design could I do that wasn’t just another house?’
‘I feel very lucky to have achieved what I have,’ Celia says. ‘I always planned to study design in VCE, and I’m incredibly grateful to my design teacher, Mr Araujo. This is definitely a shared triumph!’
Discovering passions
Reflecting on her time at Wesley, Celia says that aside from the formative education she received, she gained a lot by fully engaging in the arts programs. ‘These programs gave me a platform to do things I didn’t know I could. The school gave me room to discover my passions.’
Celia – for whom sustainable design is definitely a passion – aspires to be an architect and will commence a Bachelor of Design at the University of Melbourne next year.
She will definitely be one to watch.
Five interesting museums to explore virtually
As our Year 1 students discovered when they made their own mini-museums, there are many positive effects on cognitive development that visiting a museum can have. Here are five museum destinations to get you started.
- Top Designs at Melbourne Museum where you can take a virtual tour of the exhibition featuring our own Celia Davidson
- MOMA for Kids
- NGV’s Top Arts
- NASA’s Langley Research Center
- Or explore the Google Arts & Culture archive
