Tommaso Durante
Associate lecturer
School of Global, Urban & Social Studies
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
"Dr Tommaso Durante is an associate lecturer in Global Studies at RMIT's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies and an international award-winning visual artist. Tommaso conducted research at RMIT with international scholars in the Globalization and Culture Program at Global Cities Research Institute and at the Centre for Global Research (formerly Globalism Research Centre) and he completed his PhD in Media Communication in 2013. Tommaso’s doctoral research investigates how symbols found in the urban spaces of Sydney and Melbourne construct a new social imaginary that is simultaneously local, national and global. The outcomes of the study contribute to our understanding of the process of globalisation and how the global imaginary is symbolically and socially produced."
Research Interest
Global, Urban Planning
Publications
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Aesthetics of Change and Urban Sustainability in Melbourne: Between Global Ideologies, Material Processes and Social Imaginaries
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The Exhaustion of the Multicultural Australian Philosophy and the Rise of a New Visual Regime of Signification: Melbourne between Multiculturalism and Globalization
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On the Global Imaginary: Visualizing and Interpreting Aesthetics of Global Change in Melbourne, Australia and Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
