East Coast Roadshow: Why we do what we do.
“What you get most out of education is the ability to learn and continue to learn. What you also hopefully get out of it is an enjoyment of learning”
Anthony Green, Graduation address – Senate – The University of Sydney http://www.usyd.edu.au/senate/gradsGreen.shtml Tue Jul 28 2009 20:49:58 GMT+1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)
Two more interviews for the roadshow today, and two more opportunities to sit with my peers in the business and talk shop about the topic we love, the discipline we’re passionate about, and for us to share ideas and learn.It has been an amazing honour and privilege to trek around this country (for of Australia, I am most inordinately fond)[1], and an amazing experience to visit campus after campus, and to meet so many people who are cheerfully dedicated to the teaching and research of marketing. It’s been massive fun (and like all good forms of massive fun, thoroughly exhausting).
Plus, being as I am an architectural fanboy, academic and geek, it’s also been a glorious exploration of the physical spaces of these universities, and that’s provided so many levels of curiosity driven exploration and discovery. Today’s venture out to Macquaire University was fruitful on both the research front (much learning) and the discovery front – particularly the Macquire University railway station, and a wonderful science-factual (future is now) piece of architecture.
Fully armed and operational battlestation
Death Star architecture + sheer engineering beauty. Isn’t it glorious?
[1]I usually restrict my use of this type of language to MSN
