Competition Package 2016–2017
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Contact The Office of Urban Transformation Research Public Enquirers Email: info@outr.org Direct Correspondence 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 vibrant trail through the Latrobe Valley. Sites range from vacant lots, nature strips, overgrown tennis courts, a historical hospital site to a 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 2016, the flowers will bloom in late February and March 2017, and they will be harvested in late March 2017.
We call on artists, designers and students to help form intriguing and playful sunflower planting designs.
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With sites across Latrobe Valley confirmed, we call for designers and artists to form ideas for two sites in the City of Morwell. This year we are focusing on a celestial garden theme that aims to build on the achievements of the previous years. The theme is interested in constellations and more specifically our solar system. Each site will be designated a planet which will generate fantasy and intrigue to visit and compare all sites. The first site in Morwell (site 03, Commercial Rd) has been given Planet Earth, and the second site (site 04, Corner of Buckley and Church St) has been designated Planet Venus. While responding to the particulars of the site, the design should also reference the designated planet whilst the references can be as subtle or explicit as you like. The layout of irrigation must be specified in the proposal e.g. sprinkler, drip line, rotors etc. 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.
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Classic and hybrid species of sunflowers are available as a part of the design palette. CLASSIC GOLD and CLASSIC ORANGE species are the standard types however a list of hybrids are also feasible. These Include: . LANDSCAPE – green centres with yellow to orange petals . MONARCH – yellow to orange petals and a rust coloured ring . ICE LADY – green centres with lemon petals . CLASSIC LIME – dark centres with light yellow petals Please note that earthworks are outside of the project scope and only sunflower planting patterns will be considered Deliverables for one site include one A3 sheet of scaled drawings (CAD or hand-drawn), one illustrative collage/ render and a 100–200 word design statement. Submissions are to be received no later than the 30th of August. Competition winners will be announced by the 15th of September. Winning projects will be built/planted. Please address your submissions to: outr@rmit.edu.au
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About us OUTR 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.
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Past Collaborators
Ben Morieson
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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
Karres+Brands
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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
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Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL) is Stoss is a Boston-based design firm globally recognised landscape that believes in the productive role of architecture practice with offices in both Melbourne and Adelaide. landscape in the making and Since 1989, TCL has undertaken re-making of cities and social an investigation into the poetic spaces. With backgrounds in expression of the Australian landscape architecture and landscape and contemporary culture. urbanism, Stoss asks questions This has permeated their design and looks for non-conventional work in a multiplicity of public solutions. How do you make nature in the city? How do you manufacture settings, from urban waterfronts to desert walking trails. In each ecologies that bring urban spaces case the detailed exploration of back to life? How do you design context, site and community have social spaces that take on a life of their own? These are questions that informed outcomes and enriched the patterning and detail of TCL’s interest Stoss as a practice. projects. www.stoss.net www.tcl.net.au
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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
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