Rochus Urban Hinkel is a practising architect, academic and curator. He joined RMIT School of Architecture and Design in 2004 as a visiting scholar in the program of architecture, and was from 2005-2012 employed by the program of interior design as a continuing staff member. He has also taught in the program of Architecture and Design at the Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart, the University of Stuttgart and the Architecture Design Innovation Program (ADIP) at the TU Berlin. He has lectured and held workshops in Europe, Northern America and Australia.

Rochus studied interior design, architecture and urban design and his practice ranges from furniture and interior design to architecture and urban design schemes, which he examines both as a practitioner as well as a tertiary lecturer. He has won a number of architecture and design awards in Germany, Belgium and Switzerland, and reviews about his practice have been published and included in exhibitions in Europe, Asia and Australia. He has curated several architectural exhibitions, mainly in Germany.

Rochus has also initiated and curated the architectural week A2 in northern Bavaria, which was one of the biggest architectural events ever organised in northern Bavaria. His research and curatorial interests investigate the relationship between public and private spaces, and explore ideas of ‘Encounters’ and 'Occupations' as well as ‘Spatial Hardware and Spatial Software’. These explorations are being undertaken through a number of small design projects and action based research projects, primarily located in public space across Australia. i.e. as part of the State of Design Festivals in Melbourne in 2008 and 2009, with exhibitions as part of the research group Urban Interior or through workshops, like with the architecture department in Lae, in Papua New Guinea.

He has convened the UI colloquia in Berlin (June 2009) and Melbourne (December 2009 and June 2010). In UI he investigates relationships between interior, architecture and urban environments. For recent explorations within tertiary teaching see: urban occupation : Berlin, Architecture Design Innovation Program (ADIP) TU Berlin (2009), claim the city (2011), informal urban practices (2010), interior urban activism (2010) and urban occupation : Brunswick (2009), all program of interior design, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne.

Rochus is currently based in Stockhom, Sweden; he is part of the Homefullness research project, a collaboration based at RMIT University and KTH Stockholm.

Memberships

●Founding member of the research group Urban Interior {UI} (since 2007)

●Member of the Bavarian architectural chamber (since 2001)

●Member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA Bayern (since 2001)

●Member of the Design Research Institute DRI, Melbourne (2008-2011)

●Curator of the Architekturgallerie am Weißenhof, Stuttgart (1999-2005)

Education

●PhD ‘The socio-political agency of the architect’ (PhD by Creative Works), University of Melbourne, Australien (submission 2013)

●Graduated Diplom (Dipl.-Ing.) Architektur und Design, State Academy of Fine Art Stuttgart (1991)

●Study Architecture and Design, State Academy of Fine Art Stuttgart (1988-1991)

●Study Interior and Furniture design, State Academy of Fine Art Stuttgart (1986-1988)

●Experience with timber, metal and plastic construction (3 months each)(1985-1986)

Practice

●Project Leader Design Research Institute DRI, Melbourne (2008-2011)

●Coordinator of the interdisciplinary Research Group Urban Interior {UI} (2009 und 2010)

●Partner in the architectural practice hinkel&schmittarchitekten, Baunach/Bamberg (2001-2004)

●Member of Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA, Landesverband Bayern (since 2001)

●Partner in the architectural practice hinkel&schmittarchitekten, Stuttgart (1996-2004)

●Registered Architect in Germany (since 1994)

●Architect with Behnisch und Partner, Stuttgart (1993-1996)

●Architect with Greiner en van Goor, Amsterdam (1991-1993)

●Elsom, Pack and Roberts, London (1989 und 1990)

Teaching

●2005 - 2012 Senior Lecturer, in architecture and interior design, RMIT University, School of Architecture and Design, Melbourne, Australien

●2009 Visiting Scholar, Architecture Design Innovation Program (ADIP), TU Berlin

●2004 Visiting Scholar, winter term 2004, RMIT University, School of Architecture and Design, program of architecture

●2003/2004 Adjunct Lecturer Universität Stuttgart, Institute für Wohnen und Entwerfen

●1999-2001, Assistant Professor with Prof. David Chipperfield, London, State Academy of Fine Art Stuttgart

●1995-1997, Assistant Professor with Prof. Robert Haussmann, Zürich, State Academy of Fine Art Stuttgart

Curatorship (since 2004)

●2011 Mentor Atlas Projekt des Melbourne Fringe Festivals (creative producer Neal Harvey) Mentor for three local artists: Benjamin Ducroz, Kieran Swann & Kit Webster who were funded and invited to produce major works in public spaces in the City of Melbourne.

●2011 Co-curator Relational Participation Roundtables in Berlin International roundtables, organized, moderated and co-curated with Dr Helene Frichot, hosted by TU Berlin, funded by Design research Institute DRI, Melbourne. International guests included Julia Martin (Goldsmith College London), Ulrich Beckefeld (osa - office for subversive architecture, Vienna), Prof Brandon LaBelle (National Academy of the Arts in Bergen), Prof Marianne Eigenheer (College of Art Edinburgh), Prof Christian Teckert (Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel/Office for cognitive urbanism Vienna), Kathrin Böhm (publicworks, London), Prof Doina Petrescu and Constatin Petcou (atelier architecture autogérée Paris / University of Sheffield) amongst others.

●2009-2010 Curator of Urban Interior Symposium in Berlin (2009), Melbourne (2009, 2010)

●2004 Project leader Zweite Architekturwoche in Bamberg_A2 initiator, curator und speaker of the project team of the ‘Zweiten Architekturwoche A2’, 9.-17.07.2004. in Bamberg with more than 40 events, including 12 exhibitions, as well as lectures and tours, an open air cinema, workshops, and other events.

●2004 Curator Weißenhof_Architekturförderpreis [2] initiator and curator of an architectural prize for young architects and designers. The prize is hosted by the Architectural Gallery am Weißenhof and supported by LBS Baden-Württemberg. The prize includes the publication exhibitions in Stuttgart, Freiburg as well as in Berlin

Conference Presentations (since 2004)

●HINKEL, R. U. & DOUGLAS, M (2011) micro-architecture as social catalyst? / can dialogical tensions of the city be performed with creative criticality?, Right to the City Conference, University of Sydney, 7 April - 9 April, 2011, Sydney.

●HINKEL, R. U. (2009) Urban Interiors: A Practice of Ephemeral Urban Design. 3rd International conference on Design Principles and Practice, Technical University Berlin, 15 February - 17 February 2009, Berlin.

●HINKEL, R. U. (2009) Occupation within urban conditions. Occupation: Negotiations with Constructed Space, University of Brighton, 2 July - 4 July 2009, Brighton.

●HINKEL, R. U. (2008) Ephemeral, temporal, urban events  - Curating local Places and Identities. IAPL Conference: Global Arts, Local Knowledge. RMIT University, 30 June - 6 July 2008, Melbourne.

●HINKEL, R. U. (2006) New Procurements in Germany. International Housing Conference. Urban Architecture Laboratory, 5 - 8 October 2006, RMIT University, Melbourne.

●HINKEL, R. U. (2006) A Genealogy of Melbourne’s Architecture Discourse. XXIII Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. Notre Dame University, 29 September - 2 October 2006, Fremantle, Western Australia.

●HINKEL, R. U. (2005) Trans-disciplinarity within the Discipline. Third International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia Queensland University of Technology, 28-30 September 2005, Brisbane.

●HINKEL, R. U. & SCHORK, T. (2007) UnMaking the Fold: The Intersection of Digital Processes and Hand Modeling, a Pedagogical Case Study. Quality Conference. Welsh School of Architecture, 4-6 July 2007, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. Publications (since 2004)

_Editor

●HINKEL, R. U., Ed. (2011). Urban Interior - informal explorations, interventions and occupations. Baunach, Germany, Spurbuchverlag. 978-3-88778-351-8.

●HINKEL, R. U., Ed. (2008). Notions of Space. Melbourne, Craft Victoria. 978-0-9879665-5-0

●HINKEL, R. U., Ed. (2005). Stadtbauwelt Melbourne. Stadtbauwelt. Berlin. ISSN 0005-6855

_Academic Journals

●HINKEL, R. U. & DOUGLAS, M. (2011) Atmospheres and Occasions of Informal Urban Practice. Architectural Theory Review ATR, Special Issue The Right to the City, 16, pp. 259-277, peer-reviewed, international circulation.

●HINKEL, R. U. (2009) A Practice of Ephemeral Urban Design. Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Volume 3, Issue 6, pp. 299-308, peer-reviewed, international circulation. (online)

●HINKEL, R. U. (2008) Spatial Hardware and Software. IN PRESTON, J. & CASTLE, H. (Eds.) AD (Architectural Design) : Interior Atmospheres. London, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 82-87. editor reviewed, international circulation.

●HINKEL, R. U. (2006) Two Years in Melbourne. Architectural Theory Review ATR, 11, pp. 73-77, peer-reviewed, international circulation.

_Book chapters

●HINKEL, R. U. (2011) Private encounters and public occupations: a methodology for the exploration of public space. IN HINKEL, R. (Ed.) Urban Interior: Informal explorations, interventions and occupations. pp 79-96. Baunach, Germany, Spurbuchverlag. 978-3-88778-351-8

●HINKEL, R. U. (2010) Occupation Within Urban Conditions. IN MEADE, T. (Ed.) Occupation: Negotiations with Constructed Space. Brighton, UK, University of Brighton. 978-1-905593-736

●HINKEL, R. U. & FRICHOT, H. (2009) Walk the Line. IN STAPPMANNS, V. (Ed.) The Melbourne Design Guide. pp 30-47. Melbourne, Alphabet Press. 9781740668224

●HINKEL, R. U. & FRICHOT, H. (2006) Take a Walk. IN MCEOIN, E. & STAPPMANNS, V. (Eds.) The Melbourne Design Guide. pp 36-49. Melbourne, lab.3000 RMIT. 0-9802914-0-2

Awards

●Shortlisted for the international Design Award, ‘red dot_best selection:office design 2003’, Design Center Nordrhein-Westfalen, Essen

●‘Auszeichnung guter Bauten in Franken 2002’, Bund Deutscher Architekten [BDA], Franken

●BDA Preis Bayern 2001, shortlisted with 10 other practices, u.a. Herzog & de Meuron, Behnisch & Partner, Allmann Sattler Wappner, Meck Architects a.o., Bund Deutscher Architekten [BDA], Bayern

●Acknowledgement ‘perspektiven 01’, international furniture design competition, Basel [Switzerland] in collaboration with Thomas Lehmann Competitions (since 2004)

●1.Prize in european-wide competition Triple Sportshall, Rockershausen, low-energy concept together with Transferzentrum energieeffizientes Bauen, Stadt Saarbrücken 2004

●short-listed for european-wide competition ‘Zukunft Killesberg’, as a member of the interdisciplinary research group ‘Die Gruppe’, Stuttgart 2004

●shortlisted, with Wohnbau Merkt, for urban study and design of 60 passive energy housing units, Fellbach 2004

●short-listed for the competition ‘Postareal’, urban study, Stuttgart 2004

●5.Prize ‘IKS Reden’, europaean-wide competition, alteration and extension of an industrial cultural heritage building, Reden / Saarland 2003

Scholarships / Project Funding (since 2004)

●Postgraduate Scholarship Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) (2012-2013)

●Project funding ‘Relational Participation’, Design Research Institute DRI, Melbourne (2011)

●Design Research Funding for research group Urban Interior {UI}, Design Research Institute DRI, Melbourne (2008)

●Research Seed Funding ‘Have You Seen It?’, Design Research Institute, Melbourne (2008)

●School Research Committee Funding, School of Architecture & Design RMIT University (2007-2009, 2011)

●Emerging Researcher Grant für Notions of Space, RMIT University Melbourne (2007)

Lectures (since 2004)

●Alternative roles of the architect, KTH Critical studies, 2012

●Alternative methodology for research on public space, University of Melbourne, 2011

●The city says everything... Visible City Forum Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne, 2010

●Encounter and Occupations, Urban Interior Colloquium, Melbourne, 2010

●‘Have you seen it?’ , Research Seminar, University of Melbourne, 2010

●‘Notions of Space’ Architecture Design Innovation Program (ADIP), TU Berlin 2008

●Peter Behrens School of Architecture, Duesseldorf [Germany] 2005

●University of Technology, Business and Design, Wismar [Germany] 2005

●‘From Melbourne’ Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), Nürnberg [Germany] 2005

●‘From Melbourne’ University of Applied Sciences, Coburg, [Germany] 2005

●‘Werkbericht’ Unitec, Auckland [New Zealand] 2004

●‘What matters’ Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne [Australia] 2004

Workshops (since 2004)

●2011 ‘embodied public space’, a project and research seminar of RMIT University and Architecture Design Innovation Program, TU Berlin, TU Berlin,

●2009 'urban occupation:action', Architecture Design Innovation Program (ADIP), TU Berlin, in cooperation with Volksbuehne Berlin

●2008 ‘ur-huette - a bamboo pavilion’, master class workshop at the University of Technology of Papua New Guinea, August 18-22, 2008

●2008 ‘context’, program wide workshop in Interior Design at RMIT University, in collaboration with Susanne Hofmann, TU Berlin

Installations and exhibitions (of own work) (since 2004)

●‘Homefulness - A manifesto for full housing’, Exhibition Federation Square, April 13-21, 2012, Design Research Institute Challenge, as member of the UNTITLED collective, 2012

●‘Placing Poles’, Gowanbrae public art project, City of Moreland, Melbourne 2011, competition entry for a public art project, developed in collaboration with Mick Douglas

●‘Urban Interior Occupation: Relational Handlungsraum’, Urban Interior Research Group project, 16 – 27 September 2009, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne 2009

●'Urban Ephemeral Room', in ‘Urban Interior Occupation', RMIT Research Group, September 9-20, 2008, Craft Victoria, Melbourne 2008,

●‘Have You Seen It? - an urban intervention’, State of Design Festival, Melbourne, July 16-24, 2008

●‘a notion of space’, counter exhibition, January 21 – February 11, 2008, Craft Victoria, Melbourne 2008

●‘My_placEs’, Strangely Familiar exhibition, May 7 – June 1, 2007, SASA Gallery, UniSA, Adelaide, South Australia, 2007

●‘Simplicity Offers Flexibility’, International Housing Conference, October 5 – 8, 2006, Urban Architecture Laboratory, RMIT University, Melbourne 2006

Exhibitions of taught design studios (since 2004)

●2011 ‘right to the city’ exhibition, April 7-30, 2011, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney [AUS]

●2010 ‘guerrila market for the exchange of ideas’, design studio: informal urban practice, august 24, 2010, Federation Square and Degraves, Melbourne [AUS]

●2009 ‘headphone- kubus in action’, June 8, 2009, a temporary event in collaboration with Volksbühne Berlin, Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, including movies andradiostation.

●2008 ‘ur-huette - a bamboo pavilion’, master class workshop at the University of Technology of Papua New Guinea, August 18-22, 2008

●2008 'a notion of space', Counter exhibition, January 21 – February 11, 2008, Craft Victoria, Melbourne [AUS]

●2007 're[bi]cycle', per_squaremetre gallery, industry collaboration with KNOG, summer school design studio in interior design and in architecture, Collingwood [AUS]

●2004 'urban living reloaded', design studio at the university of stuttgart, faculty of architecture, institute for housing and design, Sparkasse bBamberg, exhibition during the Architectural Week A2, Bamberg [D]