LABORATORY ARCHIVE
PARTNERS
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THE LIVABLE CITY
HUMAN SYSTEMS
BUILT SYSTEMS
- EXTREMES
- DIY CITY
- PLASTIC FUTURES
- OUTr][RTNo
- URBAN ROOMS
MOBILITY SYSTEMS
Presented by RMIT School of Architecture and Design
Director - Prof. Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture (Biography)
Exhibition Curator - Brent Allpress, Research Director, RMIT Architecture (Biography)
Saturday 18 July, 10am - 6.30pm
Invitation only
RMIT brings together five Design Laboratory studio groups from the Architecture, Interior Design and Landscape Architecture disciplines within the RMIT School of Architecture and Design. These labs are titled: EXTREMES, DIY CITY, PREEMPTING EMERGENCE: Designing Plastic Futures for 2049, OUTr][RTNo and URBAN ROOMS. Under the guidance of research leaders for each Design Lab, the groups speculate on and propose how we can design, construct, occupy and understand the built fabric of the city in 2040.
As an outcome of the Built Systems Laboratories RMIT will present an exhibition documenting research and exploration into the drivers of urban space within inner urban precincts, investigating projected density, architectural form and structure, urban landscapes, and spatial environments of Melbourne and related urban centres in 2040.
The Design Laboratory studios in this exhibition take diverse contested positions on the future city in 2040, situated against core disciplinary concerns and values. The role of designing as a primary project-based mode of research and discovery is the shared approach that characterises this community of practice.
PARTNERS
RMIT University
die Angewandte, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
ABOUT RMIT
The School of Architecture + Design, RMIT, is a multi-disciplinary design school undertaking scholarship in five discipline areas: Architecture, Fashion, Industrial Design, Interior Design and Landscape Architecture. The trans-disciplinary Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) is a research facility concerned with the role of digital technologies across the design industries.
Our metropolitan base in the city of Melbourne provides a rich setting for our design scholarship. We understand design practice as an agent of cultural change within an increasingly complex and cosmopolitan world. We emphasize the activity of designing as research and understand research as an integrated component of scholarship. The strategic direction for our School is underpinned by three guiding scholarship principles: scholarship-of-change; curated and vertically integrated design scholarship; and tri-polar scholarship.
Our ambition is to sustain three contested areas of scholarship across the school. We believe that holding multiple, articulated positions leads to a productive scholarship environment. We understand these three poles as clusters of intensity within a dynamic constellational structure rather than as fixed points. These three poles provide a focus for curating our design studios, research and the careers of our alumni. Staff and students make clear and deliberate choices in selecting studios and positioning their work in relation to these three scholarship poles. The poles interact and overlap and are always in question. Over time as they are challenged they will change.
The three poles currently include the Expanded Field, Urban Environments and Advanced Technologies. The Expanded Field involves interdisciplinary and collaborative practices and design responses to diverse modes of cultural production. It deals with issues of ethics and sustainability, regimes of care, art and public space, social needs and the ephemeral. Urban Environments has as its focus a concern for precedent, type, and the pragmatics of infrastructure and the urban scale, including civic consciousness and civic narratives. Advanced Technologies engages with digital design and communications technologies and emergent practices involving generative processes in design that utilize new digital and biological technologies.
