The cities of the future have already been built. Are they built to last?
Cities face complex challenges from climate change and housing affordability to social inequality and uneven access to nature. Solutions to these challenges require radical improvements to buildings, neighbourhoods and infrastructures that already exist.
This exhibition explores how to upgrade and future-proof cities. Learn how to make homes healthy and climate-ready, save existing buildings, convert offices into housing and make streets radically greener. Enter a climate safe room to consider the realities of climate adaptation, explore models of buildings with many lives, and walk around a life-sized streetscape that shows how carparks, roadways and footpaths can be transformed to build resilience.
Showcasing creative projects and initiatives across Melbourne, Retrofit is a call to action to transform cities to become thriving places now and in the coming century. The exhibition asks: what will it take to retrofit our homes, buildings and streets for a viable, vibrant future?
