Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Visit Victoria: Play Melbourne
For particpants travelling from international and interstate destinations, we will be posting a series of clips that try and capture the essence of Melbourne as a dynamic, culturally rich contemporary city . They will attempt to highlight significant Urban Realities locations such as Federation Square BMW Edge where the Symposium "How we might challenge and design our cities in the future" will be held on 26th July, 2011.
Backpackers Guide to Melbourne at Night
For more information on Melbourne see the website:
www.visitmelbourne.com
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Symposium Location: Federation Square BMW Edge: Melbourne
The forum explores how the design and construction of temporary urban spatial and social interventions as a means of researching experiential and adaptive emergent strategies for the reorganisation of the urban landscape.
The process of urban development is in a constant state of flux that we must learn to embrace through a mode of environmental design and construction of environments that is responsive to continual transition. The notion of temporary usage apposes traditional masterplanning: it emerges from the current contextual condition, not from a distant goal; it seeks to employ existing qualities rather than inventing everything anew; it is concerned with small places and brief spans of time as well as the conditions at various points in time. Temporary uses result from an alternative understanding to traditional urban planning strategies that explore an appropriation of the city as an alternative to authoritarian development by government bodies, and economically driven policies. Temporary urban landscapes therefore offer a unique opportunity for design events of limited life to exist, injecting the urban environment with playfulness, imagining possible futures that are experiential and adaptive.
Centre Place: Melbourne
Melbourne urban cultural heart can be experienced through the labyrinth of laneways that dissect the city. This is where you will find many of its art installations, cafes and bars institutions that have made Melbourne famous for it night life. Melbourne has been built on the sense of discovery. In your participants handbook we have highlighted some of Melbourne's best hidden secrets.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
ABOUT URBAN REALITIES: Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge
URBAN REALITY
URBAN LANDSCAPES
URBAN STRATEGIES
URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS
URBAN INTERVENTIONS
URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
URBAN CITIES TO DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT A PUBLIC SPACE!!!
Development occurs in a state of flux and we must learn to design and construct an urban environment that embraces continual transition. Temporary use is the opposite of the masterplan: it starts out from context and the current condition, not from a distant goal; it seeks to use what already exists rather than inventing everything anew; it is concerned with small places and brief spans of time as well as the conditions at various points in time. Temporary uses are symptoms of an alternative understanding to urban planning, rather than leaving development to government and the economy alone, they explore an appropriation of the city.* Temporary urban landscapes therefore offer a unique opportunity for design events of limited life to exist, injecting the urban environment with playfulness, imagining possible futures that are experiential and adaptive.
Urban Realities: Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge Melbourne challenges teams to participate in a competition that involves designing and constructing a site in response to a brief within 3 days.
All event participants will be living and working together for the 3 day period at the Urban Realities Headquarters.
* Haydn, Florian and Temel, Robert, 2006, Temporary urban Spaces, birkhauser, Basel Switzerland
URBAN LANDSCAPES
URBAN STRATEGIES
URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS
URBAN INTERVENTIONS
URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
URBAN CITIES TO DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT A PUBLIC SPACE!!!
Development occurs in a state of flux and we must learn to design and construct an urban environment that embraces continual transition. Temporary use is the opposite of the masterplan: it starts out from context and the current condition, not from a distant goal; it seeks to use what already exists rather than inventing everything anew; it is concerned with small places and brief spans of time as well as the conditions at various points in time. Temporary uses are symptoms of an alternative understanding to urban planning, rather than leaving development to government and the economy alone, they explore an appropriation of the city.* Temporary urban landscapes therefore offer a unique opportunity for design events of limited life to exist, injecting the urban environment with playfulness, imagining possible futures that are experiential and adaptive.
Urban Realities: Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge Melbourne challenges teams to participate in a competition that involves designing and constructing a site in response to a brief within 3 days.
All event participants will be living and working together for the 3 day period at the Urban Realities Headquarters.
* Haydn, Florian and Temel, Robert, 2006, Temporary urban Spaces, birkhauser, Basel Switzerland
Thursday, July 7, 2011
ABOUT US
We are a group called OUTR (Office of Urban Transformations Research), as a not-for-profit group we exist within the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University, Melbourne.
OUTR is a network of Designers from Melbourne that utilise research as a primary focus for design practice.
We see design practice as an agent of cultural, environmental and political change within an increasingly complex world.
As a group we thought it was important to construct an event in Melbourne, Australia to frame the design of public space within the discourse of landscape urbanism. This positioning allows us to consider public space, and the city, as a fluctuating condition influenced by the complexities that make up the world around us. We aim to empower the collective to change the way we design and construct the public realm. This event endeavours to influence how the city, state and national decision makers approach the future of our urban environment.
OUTR.org
OUTR.blogspot.com
OUTR is a network of Designers from Melbourne that utilise research as a primary focus for design practice.
We see design practice as an agent of cultural, environmental and political change within an increasingly complex world.
As a group we thought it was important to construct an event in Melbourne, Australia to frame the design of public space within the discourse of landscape urbanism. This positioning allows us to consider public space, and the city, as a fluctuating condition influenced by the complexities that make up the world around us. We aim to empower the collective to change the way we design and construct the public realm. This event endeavours to influence how the city, state and national decision makers approach the future of our urban environment.
OUTR.org
OUTR.blogspot.com
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