#Get Sunflowered Information Pack 2015–2016
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Contact The Office of Urban Transformation Research Public Enquirers Email: info@outr.org Direct Correspondance Email: outr@rmit.edu.au 03 9925 0817 Rosalea Monacella rosalea.monacella@rmit.edu.au 0418 226 210 ReActivate HQ Lynton Azlin & Jane Darling 0476 045 892
Opening Hours
ReActivate HQ 226, Commercial Road, Morwell. 9am - 5pm Monday - Friday HQ will be closed during planting season.
Introduction
Get Sunflowered is an annual project by Reactivate Latrobe Valley in collaboration with artist Ben Morieson. The project demonstrates how the spaces we no longer use and consider blights can be transformed into something beautiful. In the process, the project brings people together to make positive change. Each site identified in this document will be transformed through a range of sunflower designs that will allow people to have different experiences, creating a happy and vibrant trail through the Latrobe Valley. The sites range from a simple paddock at the entrance of one town, overgrown tennis courts, an old hospital site, and redundant service stations in the centre of town.
The intention is to consider how we might utilise redundant and vacant sites in the urban fabric to celebrate and transform our cities through the temporal event of growing beautiful sunflowers. This is a collaborative community project supported by local government authorities and private enterprise that is concerned with the making of the work as much as the wondrous outcome itself. It is about bringing people together to bring about positive change. The sunflowers will be planted in November and December 2015, the flowers will bloom in late February and March 2016, and they will be harvested in late March 2016.
“It is about bringing people together to bring about positive change.�
Locations
Moe, 1-5 Watsons Rd
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Traralgon
94-96 Narracan Dr 02 Moe, Former Hospital
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Traralgon
03 Yallourn N, North Rd
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Former Hotel
Yallourn N, North Rd The Naturestrip
12
Coonida Hill
VRI Hall
Tyers, Main Rd Primary School
Glengarry, Traralgon-Mafra Rd Gateway
05 Morwell, 145 Princes Dr
13
Toongabbie, 43 Main St
06 Morwell, 178-180 Commercial Rd
14
Churchill, 911 Philip Pde
15
Boolarra, 51 Tarwin St
07
Morwell, Cnr Church/Buckley St Former Service Station
08 Traralgon, Princes Hwy
General Store
Neighbourhood House
Primary School
Maryvale Cres 16 Morwell, Caravan Park
About us OUTR Research Lab is a network of professionals from RMIT University in Melbourne that utilise research as a focus for design practice. OUTR understands design practice as an agent of cultural change within an increasingly complex cosmopolitan world. Our research endeavours to assist in the emergence of design opportunities specializing on the topics of expanded field, urban environments and advanced technologies. The expanded field deals with issues of ethics and sustainability, regimes of care, art and public space, social needs and the ephemeral. Urban Environments has its focus a concern of precedent, type and the pragmatics of infrastructure and urban scale, including civic consciousness and hence civic narratives. Advanced technologies deals with the pursuit of rule generated processes in design that allow for the utilization of new digital and biological technologies.
Collaborators —
Ben Morieson Melbourne, Australia — Ben Morieson has completed his Masters of Art in Public Space at RMIT University. His art practice to date has had an emphasis in public art situations. Much of Morieson’s work is absurdist and often challenges the audience to separate irony from sincerity, or to clarify their own perceptions within an ambiguous context. The work takes many different forms ranging from the purely sculptural to that of performance or action, or video and photographic. www.benmorieson.com.au
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Stoss Landscape Urbanism Boston, USA — Stoss is a Boston-based design firm that believes in the productive role of landscape in the making and re-making of cities and social spaces. With backgrounds in landscape architecture and urbanism, Stoss asks questions and looks for non-conventional solutions. How do you make nature in the city? How do you manufacture ecologies that bring urban spaces back to life? How do you design social spaces that take on a life of their own? These are questions that interest Stoss as a practice. www.stoss.net —
Taylor Cullity Lethlean Melbourne + Adelaide, Australia — Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL) is globally recognised landscape architecture practice with offices in both Melbourne and Adelaide. Since 1989, TCL has undertaken an investigation into the poetic expression of the Australian landscape and contemporary culture. This has permeated their design work in a multiplicity of public settings, from urban waterfronts to desert walking trails. In each case the detailed exploration of context, site and community have informed outcomes and enriched the patterning and detail of TCL’s projects. www.tcl.net.au —
Karres+Brands Hilversum, The Netherlands — Since 1997, Karres+Brands has worked on diverse projects, studies and competitions, both in the Netherlands and abroad. Their work encompasses every scale of spatial design, from area strategies and infrastructural projects to parks and gardens, and from urban planning assignments to product design. With this they rely on their enthusiasm and craftsmanship, continuously broadening their outlook towards developing appropriate and innovative responses to the challenges of today. www.karresenbrands.nl —
Endemic San Francisco, USA — Led by Clark Thenhaus, Endemic is a small architecture and urbanism office interested in careful readings of cultural context, politics, history, and architecture’s social salience and engagement with the public. www.endemicarchitecture.com
Media (selected) Latrobe Valley Express “Always look on the sunny side” 23 October 2014
3TR Radio Morning program with Greg Allen, 13 March 2015
Gippsland FM, “Wake up with Mario” program, 9 February 2015
Latrobe Valley Express “Blooming sea of yellow” 30 March 2015
Latrobe Valley Express “ Tony’s sunny disposition” 16 February 2015
RMIT Media “Sea of 100,000 sunflowers blossoms in the Latrobe Valley” 30 March 2015
The Age “Sunflowers in full bloom in the middle of Morwell in the Latrobe Valley” 25 February 2015 ABC Radio Gippsland, “Statewide Drive” program, 26 February 2015 ABC Radio Gippsland Interview with Tony Lea, VRI site, 28 February 2015
Latrobe Valley Express “Brighten up your day” 2 March 2015 Latrobe Valley Express Online “Sunflowers set to power Morwell party happiness” 9 March 2015 ABC Radio Gippsland Interview with Rhiana Whitson, 12 March 2015
Leading Agriculture magazine “Sea of sunflowers blossoms in Latrobe Valley” 28 April 2015 Making Connections magazine (RMIT) “Rays of hope” 1 May 2015 Australian Financial Review “Rays of hope” 4 June 2015 ABC Radio Gippsland “Get Sunflower’d project makes shortlist for Tidy Towns awards” 4 June 2015
Latrobe Valley Express “Rewarding experience” 8 June 2015 Landscape Architecture Australia magazine “Seeds of Change” November issue 2015
Awards Tidy Towns Sustainable Communities Awards 2015 Winner, Community Action and Leadership (Population above 3,000)
Brief
With 16 confirmed sites throughout the Latrobe Valley region, the Get Sunflowered project in 2015/2016 will more than double in scope and scale from 2014/2015, increasing visibility and broadening engagement with local community groups. While responding to the particulars of the site, the design should also reference a defined garden movement (the Picturesque, High Renaissance, etc.) to build a narrative of garden history and evolution across the suite of plantings. The references can be as subtle or explicit as you like. Irrigation must be considered in the planting designs. Sunflowers require daily irrigation, so it is essential that irrigation lines can be installed and that sunflowers are not planted in such a way that would make irrigation difficult. Deliverables include one A3 sheet of scaled drawings (CAD or hand-drawn), one illustrative collage/render and a 100–200 word design statement.
Timeline
Deliverables due Monday 28 September 2015.
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Yallourn North, North Road Area - 3086sqm
Site 05. 145 Princes Dr, Morwell
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145 Princes Dr, Morwell Area - 630sqm
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Site 06. Morwell, 178-180 Commercial Rd
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Site 07. Morwell, Cnr Church/Buckley St, Former Service Station
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Morwell, Cnr Church/Buckley St, Former Service Station Area - 1392sqm
Site 08. Traralgon, Princes Highway
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Site 09. Traralgon, Cooinda Hill
Dunbar Road
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Dunbar Road
Hickox Street
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Traralgon, Cooinda Hill Area - 10148sqm
Site 10. Traralgon , VRI Hall
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Key Site Boundary Contour Lines N VRI Hall, Traralgon Area - 813sqm
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Site 11. Tyers, Main Rd, Tyers Primary School
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Key Site Boundary Contour Lines N Tyers Primary School, Main Road. Area - 20444sqm
Site 12. Glengary Gateway
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Key Site Boundary Contour Lines N Glengarry Gateway Area - 1250sqm
Site 13. Toongabbie General Store, 43 Main Street
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Site 14. Churchill , Lot 20, Marina Drive
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McDonald Way
Key Site Boundary Contour Lines N Churchill, Lot 20, Marina Drive
Site 15. Boolarra, 51 Tarwin St, Boolarra Primary School.
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Boolarra, 51 Tarwin St, Boolarra Primary School Area - 1150sqm
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Site 16. Morwell, Maryvale Cres, Former Caravan Park
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Morwell, Maryvale Cres, Former Caravan Park