Know Your Foodbowl

Know Your Foodbowl was a research project undertaken by the Food Alliance at Deakin University. The project was crowdfunded through Pozible, and supported by the City of Melbourne, Mornington Peninsula Shire, and Slow Food Melbourne.

Foodprint Melbourne

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.

Visions and Pathways 2040

The project aims to develop visions and innovation and policy pathways for transforming Australian cities to achieve rapid decarbonisation and increased resilience in the face of climate change.

Future Cities Distributed Infrastructure project

The Future Cities Distributed Infrastructure Project is an innovative and integrated research program to envisage, design, plan and model post-carbon resilient futures and ‘adaptive-mitigation’ pathways for four selected local councils within Metropolitan Melbourne.

Urban agriculture’s role in resilient city food systems

With the help of citizen scientists and gardeners, this project is creating a new urban agriculture dataset. This dataset will allow urban agriculture to be looked at in the context of its role in cities and in food supply resilience, both now and into a climate change affected future.

Australian Food Supply Scenarios

An extension of a VEIL research scoping project completed in early 2011 (funded from a VicHealth Discovery Grant). This new two-year research project is ARC funded, with Deakin University (lead) VEIL, CSIRO and ANU.

Visions of Resilience

Design-led Transformation for Climate Extremes. Climate change is re-writing the record book on weather extremes and local communities face the brunt of these impacts.

Urban biogas

This projects aims to investigate the feasibility of ‘closing the loop’ for food and human waste and energy production through the use of anaerobic digestion in Melbourne and the potential to partially de-centralise waste management and energy generation.

Distributed Systems Research

The distributed model sees infrastructure and critical service systems positioned close to resources and points of demand.

Local and Creative Food Economies

Scenarios for climate change adaptation

VEIL has been working as part of a collaborative team for VCCCAR looking at the role and value of scenario planning in climate change adaptation decision-making.

Transforming Society “From Below”

A small research project to understand the dynamic of change “from below” has become a component of the disruptive change research for the Visions and Pathways 2040 project.

Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design

Linking different areas relevant to food security and sustainability to facilitate urban life.

Visioning 2032: The Films

What could a sustainable neighbourhood in Melbourne look like? How could we transform a number of our existing urban communities through design ‘interventions’?

Food Freight

The pressures of rising energy costs, potential carbon prices and increasing vulnerability in food supply chains are challenging to food producers and businesses, and they have important implications for food availability, access and utilisation – and hence food security.

Glimpses

Mapping Melbourne's Peri-urban Agricultural Land

Since at least the 1940’s, concerns have been raised repeatedly about the loss of some of Victoria’s most productive land due to Melbourne’s urban expansion. The loss of high productive areas suitable for horticulture (fruit and vegetable growing) has been of particular concern.

Food Hubs

Food Hubs make it easier to buy and sell local food

Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for Victoria

In April 2008 VEIL released our first policy challenges report – Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for Victoria: What do we know? What do we need to know?

2007-08 Studios

A series of multidisciplinary design studios run in 2007 and 2008.

Broadmeadows 2035

Following on from our engagement with Hume City Council and a series of ‘Vision: Broadmeadows 2032’ projects in 2009-2010, VEIL has returned to Broadmeadows to further collaborate with the council and local community in exploring and visioning sustainable and resilient futures for Broadmeadows.

Florence 2035

Our cities and their systems of energy, water, food, transport, shelter, and information are dependent on large flows of fossil fuel-based energy. This dependency must change, urgently, to deal with the impacts of climate change and peak oil.

Sunshine 2032

The Garden City layout of Sunshine is suited to the intensification of sustainable programs including urban agriculture, shared water and energy harvesting systems, increased pedestrian and bike access through the neighbourhood and shared public spaces for increased social cohesion.

Broadmeadows 2032

The City of Hume is a rapidly developing centre north of Melbourne, caught up in many of the problems of burgeoning suburban sprawl, population growth, climate change, stressed infrastructure and impending broad-brush state planning initiatives.

EcoCity (EBD)

What does Melbourne look like in 2032? In 2008, VEIL’s Design Hub members looked at the last remaining vacant land available for development in Melbourne’s CBD, known as E-Gate, and applied some very radical thinking.

ReDesign 2032

In a probable future of legislated Extended Product Responsibility (EPR), Carbon offsetting, and growing concern for increasing landfill levels, the necessity for a shift in design systems is becoming increasingly apparent.

Mobility: City of Short Distances

The Mobility Studios explore the interconnections and spaces between slow transport and public transport. Mobility in 2032 is networked and decentralised.

Leeuwarden 2018 – 2040

The Eco-Acupuncture program has grown internationally with work in Florence (Italy) in 2013, and Rotterdam in 2014. Leeuwarden – as the EU Cultural Capital 2018 – became part of the international Eco- Acupuncture program in late 2014.