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THE LIVABLE CITY
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THE LIVABLE CITY
HUMAN SYSTEMS
BUILT SYSTEMS
- EXTREMES
- DIY CITY
- PLASTIC FUTURES
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MOBILITY SYSTEMS
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Presented by RMIT School of Architecture and Design
Leader - Rosalea Monacella, Program Director, RMIT Landscape Architecture (Biography)
Saturday 18 July, 10am - 6.30pm
Invitation only
In the near future we will see a continuing transformation in environmental conditions that impacts on the changing dynamics of the way we live. Landscape can be imposed through mechanisms that accommodate the transformation of economic, social, environmental and infrastructural conditions of the urban fabric. This Laboratory investigates the potential redefinition of the city and proposes a set of systems that can facilitate change and produce a flexible spatial urban pattern.
Possibilities exist to utilise and develop notions of indeterminacy and self-organisation in city fabric, facilitating the emergence of the urban landscape as a set of systems operating under dynamic, temporal and fluctuating conditions.
The urban environment can be transformed into a formless, dynamic and complex condition, where the indeterminate nature of landscape is offered as an alternative model of organisation. This suggests a shift from an ordered and rigid fabric, to a set of systems that emerge from an existing context, allowing access to a new urban form.
By looking at contemporary case studies of megacities such as Lagos in Africa or Shanghai in China we find the idea of the city as a vast surface in which architecture, infrastructure, and landscape are considered as an undifferentiated plane subject to the same forces. Described by Alex Wall as a surface that has the ability to support and connect a diversity of systems/activities in time.
This Design Laboratory puts forth the idea of the city as a horizontal phenomena that can measure and order what exists within it. Wall utilizes the term landscape as a means for describing the city as an active plane that ‘organises and supports a broad range of fixed and changing activities’. Landscape here doesn’t conjure up images of natural idyllic or recreational spaces but implies a performative ‘connective tissue’ that organizes not only the objects and spaces of the city but also the complex systems, dynamic processes and events that move through them.
The aim of this Design Laboratory studio is to develop different landscape logics of transformation that can accommodate the unpredictable future of the city. The developed models will be responsive and robust. These are speculative models of the future that will transform themselves and their sites across the scales, with time considered as an embedded material condition.
COLLABORATORS
Bridget Keane, Craig Douglas, Armando Oliver and Greg Afflick, Joseline Setiawan, Carlie Young, Kathryn English
STUDENT PARTICIPANTS
Rachael Byrden,, Ryan Baragwanath, Sarah Gan, Fang Ji, Natalie Swan, Bronwyn Tan, Querien Velter, Mitchell Zurek, Daniel Coppock, Katie Cudal, William England, Michael Lin, Biddy Adams, Erin Ellis, Luke Martindale
Landscape Architecture Upperpool Design Studio, 2009 – Advanced Technologies
RMIT Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Professional Degree)
PARTNERS
Arup
Kwodrent
Karres en brands
Presented by RMIT School of Architecture and Design
Leader - Rosalea Monacella, Program Director, RMIT Landscape Architecture (Biography)
Saturday 18 July, 10am - 6.30pm
Invitation only
In the near future we will see a continuing transformation in environmental conditions that impacts on the changing dynamics of the way we live. Landscape can be imposed through mechanisms that accommodate the transformation of economic, social, environmental and infrastructural conditions of the urban fabric. This Laboratory investigates the potential redefinition of the city and proposes a set of systems that can facilitate change and produce a flexible spatial urban pattern.
Possibilities exist to utilise and develop notions of indeterminacy and self-organisation in city fabric, facilitating the emergence of the urban landscape as a set of systems operating under dynamic, temporal and fluctuating conditions.
The urban environment can be transformed into a formless, dynamic and complex condition, where the indeterminate nature of landscape is offered as an alternative model of organisation. This suggests a shift from an ordered and rigid fabric, to a set of systems that emerge from an existing context, allowing access to a new urban form.
By looking at contemporary case studies of megacities such as Lagos in Africa or Shanghai in China we find the idea of the city as a vast surface in which architecture, infrastructure, and landscape are considered as an undifferentiated plane subject to the same forces. Described by Alex Wall as a surface that has the ability to support and connect a diversity of systems/activities in time.
This Design Laboratory puts forth the idea of the city as a horizontal phenomena that can measure and order what exists within it. Wall utilizes the term landscape as a means for describing the city as an active plane that ‘organises and supports a broad range of fixed and changing activities’. Landscape here doesn’t conjure up images of natural idyllic or recreational spaces but implies a performative ‘connective tissue’ that organizes not only the objects and spaces of the city but also the complex systems, dynamic processes and events that move through them.
The aim of this Design Laboratory studio is to develop different landscape logics of transformation that can accommodate the unpredictable future of the city. The developed models will be responsive and robust. These are speculative models of the future that will transform themselves and their sites across the scales, with time considered as an embedded material condition.
COLLABORATORS
Bridget Keane, Craig Douglas, Armando Oliver and Greg Afflick, Joseline Setiawan, Carlie Young, Kathryn English
STUDENT PARTICIPANTS
Rachael Byrden,, Ryan Baragwanath, Sarah Gan, Fang Ji, Natalie Swan, Bronwyn Tan, Querien Velter, Mitchell Zurek, Daniel Coppock, Katie Cudal, William England, Michael Lin, Biddy Adams, Erin Ellis, Luke Martindale
Landscape Architecture Upperpool Design Studio, 2009 – Advanced Technologies
RMIT Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Professional Degree)
PARTNERS
Arup
Kwodrent
Karres en brands
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