The Mobility Studios explore the interconnections and spaces between slow transport and public transport. Mobility in 2032 is networked and decentralised.
The studios include the premise that Melbourne has had to develop a more localised way of life (i.e. more access to local services / food / health / education / more localised work facilities), and that any activities (passenger & freight movement) that do not take place within 2 – 5 km are reached via a rapid public transport system. Cars are not designed out of the system, but by proposing that peak oil has happened and petrol is in excess of $5.00 a litre, studio projects can be system- as well as object- (vehicle) focused.
Mobility Exhibitions: Grid, Corridor Field & Stringybark Sustainability Festival.
Design projects
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Access 2030
This studio introduced the City of Short Distances, scenario building, product-service- system thinking and sustainability to 2nd and 3rd year Monash Industrial Design students.
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Future Transport Systems
A light rail system that has low carbon emissions to be used in the suburb of Rowville in 2032.
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Mess. Everyday Babylon
Investigating two key issues in architectural design: the messiness of the everyday, and networked systems as an organisational model and creative tool.
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Sustainable Vacation
Investigating a Victorian-based vacation in the year 2032.
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Systems & Services
Systems & services for living, working, & connecting with community in Rowville 2032.
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Visioning Mobility
What Melbourne might look like in a low-carbon future, with particular regard to transport and mobility equity?