Semester 2 2017 Studio 25
Urban Eco Acupuncture Netherlands
Michael Trudgeon & Chris Ryan
This studio has it's own subject code. Students who ballot for, and undertake this subject will be withdrawn from Architecture Studio C, D or E and enrolled in ABPL90111 Urban Eco Acupuncture Studio. This studio will be considered equivalent to your core Architecture Studio for the purposes of prerequisites for Architecture Studio D or E or Design Thesis.
Studio Outline:
The studio projects range in scale from building retro-fits to landscape and urban interventions and take in the disciplinary expertise of architectural, landscape and Urban design. Students will develop design interventions to transform the existing built environment and systems of provision (energy, water, food, transport, information) for a sustainable, low carbon, resilient future. - What steps must be taken today to get there? The aim is to identify opportunities that can become sites of design intervention to shift the path of innovation on a new trajectory: towards sustainable, resilient conditions. There will be an emphasis on physical model making in this studio and we will hold an introductory session in the Fab Lab at the University of Melbourne.
Studio Leaders
MICHAEL TRUDGEON joined VEIL in 2010 as Deputy Director and is responsible for delivering the VEIL teaching program that runs as part of the masters of architecture design studio teaching program at ABP. VEIL is a sustainability research centre at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. VEIL focuses on the role of distributed systems for key resources and infrastructure as a critical way to reduce our carbon footprint. VEIL does this through developing design lead solutions that both explore and communicate the resulting scenarios. The VEIL design studio program at MSD is a central part of this process. VEIL has built an open innovation organisation creating a substantial network of researchers, academic and professional designers, government and community representatives and students to explore the role of these new systems to create low carbon communities and lifestyles. Design director - Crowd Productions Michael Trudgeon is the design director at Crowd Productions, a transdisciplinary design studio, incorporated in 1983, with a focus on technology innovation in and its relationship to cultural change. Crowd Production’s clients include Mirvac, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Hoyts Cinema Corporation, National Australia Bank, BeWell, National Gallery of Victoria, , Australia Post, Business Victoria, Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, Citipower, Commonwealth Department of Communications, Melbourne Central, Museum of Sydney, Museum Victoria. Michael’s experience in design research and technological innovation is diverse and combines a long trans-disciplinary career in practice as well as teaching post-graduate design studio programs. Michael’s range of design work crosses the disciplines of Industrial design, architectural and interior design, furniture design and manufacturing and digital design, design research, scenario mapping and visualisation, experience design, exhibition design and content curation. This specific expertise will be of enormous direct benefit to the complex and multi-disciplinary nature of the project.
PROFESSOR CHRIS RYAN, Director of the Victorian Eco Innovation Lab (VEIL) at the University of Melbourne, has worked for over 30 years across various areas of science, technology, environmental policy and design, and in projects that span the community sector, academia, government and international agencies and business. His community sector work includes the creation of a number of networks of ‘alternative’ and ‘radical’ technology in the UK in the 1970′s. He brought this work brought back to Australia for the creation of several community technology programs and, in 1978, a community plan for environmental and socially-useful work that became the Centre for Research into Environmental Strategies (CERES), still existing today in the Melbourne Suburb of Brunswick. In academic work he helped found the first multi-disciplinary undergraduate socio-environmental degree program at RMIT University that spanned two faculties (Social Science and Architecture and Design). That program ran from 1984 to 1997. He was foundation professor of Design and Sustainability at RMIT from 1990, and Director of the National (Key) Centre for Environmental Design from 1989-98. In this position he directed the National EcoReDesign program, and ARC Linkage and ERDC project, working with 20 Australian companies to develop a new eco-design methodology and bring new greener products into the market.
Learning Outcomes:
Build a transdisciplinary understanding of the role of design within a complex ‘wicked problem’ framework. This studio will address the strategic objectives laid out by the City of Leeuwarden. Their emphasis is on building from a long history of innovation to: "demonstrate that culture can be at the heart of transformation in the strengthening of the social fabric and human potential of communities - through an interdisciplinary approach [that harnesses] energy and creativity necessary to address cultural change from multiple perspectives." Their themes address ecological and economic sustainability in three domains: Nature and Culture; City and Countryside; Community and Diversity. Learn to communicate with other design and consulting disciplines. The complexity of the challenges requires a multi-disciplinary perspective.
The studio brings together students and professionals of architecture, landscape architecture, building technology, urban design and planning from Australia and Europe. It builds on VEIL’s well established academic and professional network. Learn to engage with, understand and communicate to ‘live’ clients. Through workshops, students will develop a general understanding of Leeuwarden’s current situation and the challenges facing the city. They will then develop a design vision for a sustainable Leeuwarden in 2018, focusing, in smaller groups, on specified sites as potential locations for this round of Urban Eco Acupuncture interventions.
Reading and Reference:
- Visions and Pathways 2040 Report Victorian Eco Innovation Lab 2015 Scenarios 2040 Results from the second year of Visions and Pathways 2040.
Scenarios of Low Carbon Living Victorian Eco Innovation Lab 2016 - Melbourne Foodprint Report
Foodprint Melbourne is a research project that investigates what grows in Melbourne’s city fringe foodbowl, the vulnerabilities in the city’s food supply and the importance of Melbourne’s foodbowl for a more resilient and sustainable food future for the city. - Living Complex. FROM ZOMBIE CITY TO THE NEW COMMUNAL, NIKLAS MAAK, Hirmer Publishers
Cities today have become portfolios of investment properties with token patches of green. The cost to live in a fortress-like luxury housing complex in London or Manhattan is so high that most of us can’t afford it. - Smart about Cities Visualizing the Challenges for 21st Century Urbanism, Maarten Hajer, Director-general of PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
The discourse on ‘Smart Cities’ is everywhere. It promises an era of innovative urban planning, driven by smart urban technologies that will make cities safer, cleaner and, above all, more efficient. Efficiency seems uncontroversial but does it make for great cities? - The Metropolitan Revolution, Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley
The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and fragile economy The Brookings Institute. New York
Field Trip
DATE: Week 9
COST: Hotel Accommodation: Students are to be located in shared accommodation arranged by VEIL: $1,050 (approximate). Living Expenses (meals and incidentals): AU$1,200 Airfare cost: Approximately AU$ 3,000 (subject to change) Rotterdam trip: additional $600 plus food and expenses
ST1/25 Thursday 9:30am - 12:30pm, Knowledge Market, Docklands
ST2/25 Thursday 12:30pm - 3:30pm, Knowledge Market, Docklands