ABSTRACT
Our inspiration for writing this book stems from a walk around the Docklands area of Melbourne (Australia) and discussing various new and innovative buildings with their disjointed and distorted forms. We speculated on how architects demonstrate experimentation, creativity and the ability to think out-of-the box and likened this to our own contexts as university academics. These buildings reflect the current times which are characterised by chronic disruption and disjunction, and we extrapolated this to universities, where similar disruption and dislocation occurs as we attempt to address unknowable unknowns. We labelled this as a period of ‘Dislocated Complexity’ and discuss in this book the way this effects universities.
