Tran Le Na Nguyen

Interior Architecture

I am an interior architecture student with three years of skill training in Vietnam. Over the next two years, I am dedicated to advancing the concept of adaptive design in today's context, where prioritizing renovation and sustainability over new construction is crucial. My aim is to leverage my skills and knowledge to harmonize spaces, striking a balance between unique aesthetics and practical function. I am committed to ensuring that my projects not only excel in quality but also deliver substantial value to humanity, addressing pressing issues such as environmental crises and resource shortages.

Underground Artist Hub

The underground world for artists can bring the context of Melbourne CBD into indoor space. The city’s laneways are filled with dynamic and ever-changing murals, stencils, paste-ups, and installations created by both local and international artists. The space promotes creative freedom, emerging artists and underground art culture.
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Underground Art Manufacturing Workshop

The workshop offers visitors creative activities that foster interaction between Melbourne’s urban and underground art scenes, bridging the gap between mainstream and non-mainstream art, and giving underground art the opportunity to be recognized as a valuable part of Melbourne’s culture. Artworks delivered from the artist hub, would be collected and interacted with by local visitors.

Urban Art Central Oasis

A wide range of creative expressions in public spaces, including graffiti, street art, murals, installations, and performances. It blends the accessibility and visibility of public art with the edgy, often subversive elements of underground art, creating a dynamic and diverse cultural landscape in urban environments.

Backyard Night Concert at Artist Hub

Understanding the user group of Melbourne’s underground artists, the project specifically provides them with a unique hub to enhance their creativity and development. The spaces range from public to private, offering diverse ways to create and enjoy art.

Adaptive Reuse of Bradmill Yarraville to Art community center

The Maverick Canvas tackles the challenge of vandals and young crimes in underground art world by creating art community for underground and indie artists in Melbourne. The design is focused on reflect their ideal spaces in real life in order to support them develop themselves in a positive way, and making use of adaptive reuse to establish heritage renovation.

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.