Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Urban Realities - Site 2 - Urban Filler - Team 7 Blanket Solution - Day Two

Following the symposium, we decided to go to as many of the ten sites in the Docklands as we could.

We understand place through occupation. We stage happenings and we see what happens.
We stopped at each site, looked around, reacted, posed for the camera.
We now have a little memory of a happening at each site in the area. We hope to get more clues about the ecology as we occupy the site over the next three days.

We also understand place through communication. We start conversations, we share and we listen.
We stopped someone else at each site, a passer by, asked if they would help us take a picture.
We now have met some of the residents, the workers and the tourists in the area. We hope to form more relationships as we become a part of the ecology over the next three days.

We hope that Joe who works across the street and parks his car at NAB stops by again and shares more of his expert ideas about using projectors. We wished the trio of tourists from Sydney could have stayed a few extra days as they had so much enthusiasm and energy for the project. We hope to meet more of the residents who helped to save the garden. We are very encouraged by the traders who have offered us so much support and are so excited about something finally happening!

We hope you like the photos! Over the next three days, please come and down and say hi, we'd love to have your participation!

x Team 7

Follow us on twitter for live updates: @URTeam7

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Wombating

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Briefing the tourists from Sydney on our project

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Joe from NBN

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We are smiling.

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Michael, Captain of the Boat!

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From left : Bryan, Kamil, Andrew, Michael, Tara, Michelle, Tim

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We Are Team One







We are Team One of the Urban Reality Competition happening in the Melbourne Docklands. We are a collection of enthusiasts from all over the world with a diverse skill set working together to dramatically transform the docklands space. Get to know us better in the following video!



Now that you know who we are, make sure to follow us in the next few days on:
Twitter @URTeamONE
And of course we'll be blogging constantly on the UrbanRealities Blog

Team 2 - The MAD Collective


The challenge - making Docklands MAD - The Move Able Design (MAD) Collective has accepted this mission to transform our part of the Docklands site into an exciting and contemporary public space.

Introducing our team Raelea, Karen, Lauren, Zac, Lorena, Nita, Taylor, Ben (Cookie), Nathan (Nate - sorry Mum!) and Ben, we are ready to change the way you think about temporary urban landscapes.

Whilst some of our team were hard at work meeting client deadlines and transforming other parts of Melbourne's urban realm, Cookie, Nate and Raelea were checking out possible sites teams will be asked to redefine in terms of public space. The view was amazing - what a great canvas nature has provided us to work with in terms of the colours that we may use as a palette and the texture, shapes and forms that we can draw from.

Further inspiration came from the time and effort of great presenters at the Urban Realities Symposium: How might we challenge the way we plan and design our cities symposium at BMW Edge, Federation Square today. Thanks to the organisers and presenters - you have inspired us to stretch the rules to create a lasting impact with the temporary space we create.
Until tomorrow - enjoy the serenity of looking over Docklands.


Symposium session 2
Joseph Norster and Millie Cattlin (The Projects), Tim Schork (Monash and MESNE Germany), Sam Rice (March Studio), Dr. Flora Salim (SIAL/RMIT), Marti Franch (EMF Spain)