SEMESTER 1 | 2021
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS
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The Java Predicament...
Neville Mars John Doyle
| Hereditary
| Marc Gibson | 5:30pm - 9:30pm | TUESDAY | ONLINE | | Outline Hereditary centres around the idea of inheritance of formal qualities through iterative digital processes. The lineage of digital form bares trademarks of the toolsets that brought them into creation. Either the organizational spacing of one n-Body reacting to another or the topological rigidity of a tessellated mesh structure. The inherent formation of digital matter reveals its indexicality through phenotypic traits. This studio will explore the intentional subversion and curation of digital tools to create adventurous forms for 3D printing. Students will create, refine, and position a digital toolset that interfaces bottom up algorithmic generation of geometry and top down intervention through sculpting. During the first portion of the semester students will introduced the fundamentals of parametric logic, digital sculpting and 3d print optimization to produce a wide array of digital sculptures. The second half of the semester will see students design a low-rise building situated on one of three plots opposite Wesley Uniting Church on Little Lonsdale Street. Students will work collaboratively in a team of three to negotiate the shift in architectural language from the existing context and the proposed design from your peers. The weekly aggregation of objects will act as a taxonomy of formal characteristics that will be referred to when designing their architectural language. | Software No prior experience in ZBrush or Grasshopper required. | Groupwork You will work collaboratively with two classmates on a shared site however each person will produce an individual project. | Evaluation Students will be assessed on their design, visual communication and comprehension of data structure to control layered parametric procedures. Individual folios are to be submitted at the conclusion of this subject. | Course Delivery The course will be delivered ONLINE – There may be optional in-person reviews at RMIT Design HUB throughout the semester. | Tectonic Formation Lab The studio is part of a group of studios and electives run this semester that are aligned with the RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formations Lab, which will collaborate through combined reviews and symposia. | Core Techniques
| Topology Generation
| Develop Taxonomy of Sculptures
| Procedural Materials
| 3D Print Resolution
| Architectural Poché
| View Past Hereditary Elective Here
LOOSE : suddenly this overview
G RAHAM CRIST with TOM MURATORE R M I T M a s t e r of Architecture Design Studio 2021 Wednesday 6pm
The loose and the tight converge, as ideas to reduce our footprint- perhaps the most crucial question for our current world. Spatial ideas of the loose and the tight participate in this question; techniques like compression, miniaturisation, overlapping and deprogramming can reshaping our footprint. As the culmination of the Supertight and the Hyperloose studios, we will explore those opposites in parallel. This studio is a twin - the Loose and Tight studios sharing resources, sites and events. Asking the same questions from the opposite sides. The projects will be collaborative but individually authored. The task of reducing footprint is a task of redesign.We prefer radical transformation or extreme makeover to the tired and stifling term of adaptive re-use. We will be starting with found city types - tower, campus and shed, and attacking them in the pursuit of radical reduction. In the interests of a lasting makeover, we are also interested in atmosphere, strange beauty, and big structure. We will experiment in relationships between architectural space and cinema, composition, engineering. (* see Supertight AU; Supertighter, Supertightest, Hyperloose, Even Looser)
TIGHT : suddenly this overview
TOM MURATORE with G RAHAM CRIST R M I T M a s t e r of Architecture Design Studio 2021 Wednesday 6pm
The loose and the tight converge, as ideas to reduce our footprint- perhaps the most crucial question for our current world. Spatial ideas of the loose and the tight participate in this question; techniques like compression, miniaturisation, overlapping and deprogramming can reshaping our footprint. As the culmination of the Supertight and the Hyperloose studios, we will explore those opposites in parallel. This studio is a twin- the Loose and Tight studios sharing resources,sites and events. Asking the same questions from the opposite sides. The projects will be collaborative but individually authored. The task of reducing footprint is a task of redesign.We prefer radical transformation or extreme makeover to the tired and stifling term of adaptive re-use. We will be starting with found city types - tower, campus and shed, and attacking them in the pursuit of radical reduction. In the interests of a lasting makeover, we are also interested in atmosphere, strange beauty, and big structure. We will experiment in relationships between architectural space and cinema, composition, engineering. (* see Supertight AU; Supertighter, Supertightest, Hyperloose, Even Looser)
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Somewhere between the irreverent wit of John Baldessari, the moral philosophy of NBC’s “The Good Place”, and the clumsy joy of an “I Forced A Bot” meme lies the potential for a radical reimagining of regulations for the built environment...
RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO: SEM 1, 2021
LOREN ADAMS
Re g u l a to r y N o n s e n s e :
As architects, our freedom to act upon or within the built environment is governed by codes, policies, standards, and regulations – well-intentioned frameworks designed to steer our decision-making towards “good” built outcomes and protect us from nefarious actors. Our neighbourhoods are a direct product of the regulatory documents which shape them. Regulations are instruments of judgement: regulatory non-compliance implies that something is “wrong”; that our project is not yet worthy of construction; undeserving of planetary resources. The specific things our governing bodies and organisations choose to regulate – and the methods by which we choose to measure compliance – tell a story about what we, as a society, collectively value. But, so too do the moments we choose to resist, circumvent, contest, or break those rules.
Extending upon the themes explored in Regulatory Nonsense I and II, this studio will again centre on relationships between the language of regulatory documents and the quality, character, and utility of our built environment. We ask: What if building regulations were written by poets, choreographers, philosophers, an A.I.? If we embrace linguistic ambiguity, would the language of our built environment begin to reflect the novel, poetic language of its regulations? In this studio, you will use a bespoke deep learning text generator ‘bot – trained on carefully curated text inputs from a range of literary, poetic, historical, theoretical, and personal sources – to create a radical, nonsensical, site-specific building regulation. You will be asked to incrementally evidence the effectiveness, limitations, and possibilities of your “nonsense regulation” in the design of a precinct, building, or buildings along the Moonee Ponds Creek. This semester, we are especially interested in the role that computation, regulation, and stories play in evidence-gathering and case-making within socio-spatial practice.
T U E S D AY E V E N I N G S , I N - P E R S O N @ R M I T D E S I G N H U B
STAND UP
DESIGN, DISCUSS, AND DEBATE
Original Picture: AAP / Morgan Sette
The studio takes the current political climate as a backdrop both globally and locally as the impetus for architectural exploration and debate and makes the assertion that Architecture can be a participant in defining critical public debate but is usually complicit and rarely disobedient in its manifestation. The studio will task students to engage critically in a broader spectrum of social issues and visit, through the practice of design, a considered attitude towards them. Whether environmental, preservationist, political, ethical, or simply aesthetic. We submit that there is a need for Architecture to enforce upon itself a clear, delineated agenda and to explore the argument within itself as it informs the ethos of architectural practice. How students speak to and represent their work will also be a large topic of exploration. Students will explore the idea of ‘doubling’ or ‘embedding’. They will explore an approach to architecture where the response the client brief, context and program are the mere scaffold for an architectural response that both meets the expectation of client driven architecture (function, profit, public good, etc.) but ‘stands up’ and takes its place in critical debate of issues that affect our cities and places.
Nick Bourns with Leona Dusanovic Ben Strong Tuesdays 6pm (Face to Face Teaching)
the idea
of melbourne
simone koch
with matthew lochert
the idea of melbourne is a studio that investigates the nature of ideas in their most fundamental form – those that affect the way we see the world. This is a metaphysical method of sorts which allows the you to investigate and develop your personal understanding of yourself in the world as a means to operate within it. Once you understand your unique way of seeing and how this affects the way you see the particular place (in this instance, Melbourne), you can then operate within this understanding to have a more powerful effect on the place. Our subject is Melbourne because it is complex and conflicted and a place in a perpetual state of renewal. It is difficult to hold as a single idea and difficult to imagine affecting. To us it neatly represents the very difficulty of architecture. We’ll get you to engage directly with both of these through a series of weekly projects, commencing with a landscape project and working through an assortment that could be seen to form the basis of a community. Through each project you will gain a better understanding of the place and through repetition a better understanding of your own architecture. The result of the projects as they compile will be more than just the sum of the artefacts but the potential effect on the place that they inhabit. So, the idea of melbourne will be your unique idea of the place as well as your idea of yourself within that place. wednesday eve
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THE TOURIST TRAP
Tourism has been described as the industry without negative impacts; however over time it has become apparat that tourism, especially mass tourism, has significant negative social, environmental and economic impacts, particularly for the most vulnerable members of the community. Architecture has had a long, complicated and at times contested relationship with tourism.1 The desire to travel is ancient, yet many of the cliches of tourism; the souvenir, travel as a rite of passage, local loathing of the tourist; emerged during the Renaissance and were associated with The Grand Tour, in which wealthy young men visited the great classical architecture, paintings and sculptures of Europe.2 The advent of cheap airline travel dramatically expanded the audience for these and other destinations, however, has also transformed the negative aspects of tourism from a nuisance
STUDIO LEADERS: BEN MILBOURNE & FELIX MADRAZO
to existential crises for some cities. These negative impacts have been most prominent in European cities; such as Venice, Amsterdam, Paris and Barcelona, where clashes between locals and tourists have at times resulted in blockades, vandalism and in some cases violence. However, these issues are also appearing in Australian destinations, notably Hobart which recently drafted legislation to limit the amount of short stay accommodation to address an affordable housing crisis viewed to eb caused by AirBnB. This studio will ask what is the future of tourism post-Covid and what role can urban, infrastructural and architectural design play in mitigating the negative effects social and environmental effects of tourism? This will be explored via the ultimate symbol of mass tourism, the ‘Mega Cruise Ship’ and its terminal/docking infrastructures to be situated within Hobart’s historic waterfront precinct.
TUESDAYS 6-10PM BLENDED MODE (ONLINE & FACE TO FACE)
Cemeteries inherently are governed by metrics and the utilitarian infrastructure that has been implemented in order to service, access and maintain the necropolis. Fawkner Train Station opened in 1886. In 1906 Fawkner Cemetery opened absorbing into its site the train line and station. A train that provided for the transportation of coffins and mourners. A train station that serviced the city of the dead. As cemeteries have evolved over time there is an acknowledgment that there is still a requirement to provide for a variety of forms of burial and remembrance. The predominance of the field verses garden. Spaces of inclusion. Spaces defined by religious boundaries. Spaces defined by acknowledgment type. Each cemetery is accompanied by various additional built programs such as the flower shop, crematorium, chapel. With the introduction of assisted death legislation in Victoria in 2019, Greater Melbourne Cemetery Trust are now in the process of understanding how this might be accommodated within their remit. What is the infrastructure that would define this program? The design studio will explore the role of the cemetery through the lens of ‘now’ and the growing requirements associated with death and remembrance. This will be balanced with understanding the historical significance of the infrastructure that defines the mechanics of the necropolis and how this might this be exploited in order to define a new appendage to the cemetery. Students will be engaged with model making, rigorous site, program and precedent analysis, reviewing the role of the cemetery and the infrastructure required to support it as a civic entity. Drawing, drawing, drawing.
MA ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO S1 2021 WEDNESDAY 6-10PM, COMMENCING WEEK 6 (TBC) AMY MUIR
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Cities are in a constant state of flux. These anomalous characteristics and behaviours are a product of its interaction with a matrix of legal and spatial codes and relationships, market forces, as well as fluctuations on the global dais. These uncertainties make any attempt to intervene within their complex organisation, rather precarious. Unsuccessful or flailing modernist enterprise, the rise of nation states and unbound exuberance of the free market economy, has coincided with the retreat of creative disciplines from the civic realm and public imagination. The increasing decentralised forces – from transformation of workforces, ecological and environmental change to migration, compel a new manner of engagement. However, cities continue to operate within disputed forms of urban renewal and antiquated models of real estate speculation. Collectively, the models and tools of engagement with the city have arguably have not adapted to the plurality of the urban environment, its variables, and utter hybridity. Urban planning too, seems hopelessly retrospective in its inability to meet current demands and expectations. Meanwhile, the peer-to-peer economy can be seen to promote the occupation of our cities according to transient, temporary and dynamic demands - a disruptive technology operating as a non-physical infrastructure that results in its nimbleness, manoeuvrability and has an extended a temporal dimension in its influence on the city and its change over time
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The Temporal City Masters Architecture Studio Semester 1 2021 | Ian Nazareth & David Schwarzman The Temporal City is a kinetic organism that is simultaneously and synchronously enabled by the flow of data, people and logistics. It proposes a spatial operating system, a stream of inputs and outputs – I/O. Its intensity and form unravel and wane as an organic mechanism that underpins a chronologically-based urbanism. Traditional principles of the city are upturned. The Temporal City is not about absolutes or repeatable spatial products - but a framework that embraces and amplifies the indeterminate, messy, contradictory, combinatory, uncertain and improbable conditions. It is opportunistic. Agility instead of stability, multipliers rather than repetition. Change, difference and time are accelerated. The complexity of its systems benefits from variability, unpredictability, imbalance and volatility. Projects will utilise static and real-time data, techniques of data scrapping, hybridising urban datasets, to generate real and counterfactual propositions and scenarios for the city. Focusing on Melbourne’s CBD, the work will offer a critical insight into the behaviours of cities and networks, all captured through decentralised systems. Through gamification and designing the protocols and relationships projects will record and reveal patterns and offer new ways of engaging with the city and its architecture. How can we move beyond a conceptual framework of spatial programming and outlines, binaries and modernist scripts to embrace and engage our formal habits with the virtual and behavioral logics of the post-urban, post-rational megacity? Wednesday evenings 18.00 - 22.00, Online.
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R MI T M as te rs of Archi tec ture S tud io Sem ester 1 2021 Tutors : Prof A li sa An drasek wi th J osh u a Lye In a world that is rapidly converted into information, future cities and buildings will be characterized by enhanced resilience, plasticity, and malleability of complex interrelated systems; in short, increased designability within complex ecologies, allowing for design proposals of unprecedented nature, complexity, and scale. Due to the imminent population growth, the demand for housing will continue to grow. New ways of living and working accelerated by the global pandemic, upcoming revolutions in mobility and shared economy, distributed and localized green energy production, new materials, and automation are all part of a larger ecology in which to rethink architecture that could house this newfound complexity. The studio will look into high-density/low-coverage architectural fabric for co-living and coworking, in close proximity to nature, and hybridised with green energy and industry 4.0 infrastructures. Prefabricated systems driven by data and algorithms offer great diversity for residential clusters, while being highly adaptable to local conditions, including topography, solar, wind, and earthquake resilience, and programmatic and aesthetic variability. Co-designed with big data, simulation and Ai, constructed through automation, at increased resolution and complexity, and rendering previously unseen aesthetics, novel typologies for high density are scientifically altered, delivering high density that is also high quality, in search of habitation patterns for enhanced wellbeing. This studio will be taught on campus when possible, or online. Students will be working in teams. Prior knowledge of Rhino and Grasshopper is highly encouraged. It is recommended to also take the “Life on Mars” elective taught by Prof Andrasek in intensive 10 day format, since it will support the work for this studio with use of Ai in design search. Time: Tuesdays 9.30AM-1.30PM (with few exceptional evening sessions to allow for reviews with international panels) www.alisaandrasek.com/ | https://vimeo.com/user366246
This studio will explore the design of intricate tectonics through algorithmic design processes and the logic of additive manufacturing. Advances in robotic fabrication and building-scale 3D printing is about to radically change the relationship between cost and form, with highly intricate geometries becoming cheaper than conventional fabrication of rectilinear geometry. The studio will focus on tectonic experiments and investigate the architecture that this generates. This studio will have a particular focus on developing and refining tectonic architectural elements and their details. The studio will explore forms that are becoming possible with emerging building-scale 3D printing, in an attempt to articulate what the forms of 3D printed architecture might be and how these could be a radical departure from current architectural form-making. Within this context the studio will develop a synthetic design process that combines emergent algorithmic approaches and the logic of 3D printing to create a strange hybrid. The studio is part of a group of studios and electives run this semester that are aligned with the RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formations Lab, which will collaborate through combined reviews and symposia.
AGENT TECTONICS MASTERS STUDIO ROLAND SNOOKS + CHARLIE BOMAN TUESDAY 5PM - 9PM
GR AND Studio Leader: Paul van Herk Studio Time: 18:30 Wednesdays Location: In-person RMIT Design Hub Style: Individual & Group Work
In this studio we will practice procedural world building by applying ‘speculative history’ techniques from literature, game design & architecture. Together we will track architectural types, materials & technologies back through time and place, and get to know their roles in city building, terraforming and empire. The main design exercise of the studio will be identifying and altering these architectural realities at their origins, and making our way back to an alternative here and now via a ‘scenic route’ of science fiction and historical fantasy. We will use literary tropes for this, such as “the gift” (of a technology from another civilisation/time/species), or “automatic empire” (where a small change sets many bigger ones in motion). The studio will evaluate strength of narrative, conceptual richness and provocative subtlety, rather than the projection of cause and effect, or a machinic reading of technology and its trajectories through time. Our site will be a 700 x 700 metre zone between RMIT and Melbourne University: precinct scale (1:1000). We will also draw at architectural scale (1:10 and 1:100) as well as regional scale (1:1000000) to build convincing ‘slices’ of fictional worlds. There will be a substantial writing component to this studio, and is suitable for those who have an interest in writing as well as enthusiasm for architectural, art and political history.
TOURISTS
OTHER homes Wednesday Night
Lecturer; Peter Brew
Homelessness in the news is xpressed by personal narratives hardship, loss, pain and suffering of each person. each night spent in awkward and uncomfortable situations is a crisis – This representation shapes our capacity to grasp the situation. Annual charity events take the form of a cold night spent under the stars, Co corporate executuves sleep out to raise money for homelessness. This reduction is but an expressed or aspect of homelessness . We understand the subject as an immediate problem , A night away from home that can be solved by a nights rent. A wicked problem mocked by a simple solution. The reality however is that 1/100 Australian are in dire need of permanent housing and perhaps 1/3 Australians face daily hardship due to the housing .For the last couple of years I/ we have been looking at a permanent and structural solution to Homelessness and to housing more generally. Despite evidence that homelessness is a real thing it is yet to be expressed as form The proposal is to consider ways that looks at homelessness in a way that is positive and seeks to find a form and typology for that form. We see this as something that the profession of architects has not attempted to do, choosing only to define homelessness as a lack of home , rather than a situation. Architecture recognise situations as things, Schools, houses ,factories dairies and office buildings, and in these things we recognise form. We are interested how students who share a demographic with the largest individual sample of Homeless people( 16-25) might be able to imagine a form for homelessness. We are interested in the immediate intuitive response might become the basis for a more general solution, how expression might lead towards a break in the cycle of blame and inaction. The studio will explore a number of distinct albeit related projects, An Individual house, an apartment a subdivision a suburb building with one house, an legal instrument and a rule, and a financial model. In the studio Architecture can be ; Formal. Inventions , patents Trades offsets ,concepts ideas Financial models/ instrument Legal and planning instruments. We aim to imagine situations where being homeless may not be a crisis
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“Our railroad stations are our contemporary architecture of democracy. They are open and accessible, they are shared spaces, they bring us together, and they celebrate all that gathering and connecting with grand and often beautiful structures.” (Aaron Betsky) …at least they should be …
TUESDAYS 6PM - 1 0 P M FAC E- TO - FAC E JOH N BAH ORIC - JO H N BA H O R I C D ES I G N A L EXANDRA G RIFFET H - G R I MSH AW ROB ERT V E NT RESC A - G R I MSH AW Government spend on rail infrastructure is occurring on a “once in a generation” scale and is reshaping our cities and landscape for generations to come. The studio examines the development of a proposed rail precinct opportunity within the regional township of Euroa, Victoria. How can an architectural intervention break down these barriers between the public and their public space? How can redevelopment of a rail precinct address the needs of a historic rural community in a truly mobile, wireless, technological future? How can the Architect be instrumental in shaping a future for these spaces that is democratic, sustainable, accessible, and beautiful? This studio will investigate and develop opportunities to unlock the station, precinct, and surrounding area that will foster connectivity, sustainability, resilience, and growth for the town. The studio synthesizes architectural and engineering drivers and challenges students to masterplan parts of the precinct and develop built form responses to the rail precinct. The studio explores the fusion of public transport with public spaces, and challenges the students to develop responses that garner empathy with the built and natural landscape. This supports the notion of integrated precincts driven to provide amenity to all users and stakeholders alike. Proposals will ultimately explore a multidisciplinary design solution for a public precinct that blurs the boundary between architecture, landscape, structure and urban design. This studio will emphasise the integration of the architectural consultant role in the broader design team. Participants will be asked to consider how collaborative design thinking is applied at all scales- from the detail of material connections to a landscape urbanism approach and beyond. Participants will be exposed to the methodologies of highly experienced practicing consultants, through close interaction with John Bahoric Design Studio and Grimshaw Architects.
LYONS PRACTICE STUDIO
CityChange
A significant social and urban change caused by the pandemic is the renewed interest in regional cities. Seen by some as safer, representing a simpler life, insulated from the ‘ills’ of the metropolis, and enabled by technology that has made remote working feasible, families and workers have relocated to regional cities. These regions and regional cities, with their own periods of boom and bust, will change further as the urban emigrants contest the local. The Lyons Practice Studio will explore the design of public places in regional cities and challenge our own design thinking as a Melbourne-based practice - nurtured on the cultural activity, density, and diversity of the metropolis. How could we design differently in the ‘country’, ‘region’, ‘town’ or ‘regional city’? Other generations of urban emigrants chose a ‘tree-change’ for regional areas or a ‘sea change’ for coastal areas. These waves of migration changed towns and regions as the stresses and congestion of the city were abandoned for an arcadian idyll. The dislocations caused last year – a ‘ring of steel’ that locked-down Melbourne and internal borders that challenged the Federation – have refocused the distinction between metropolis, town, and region. Architecture and urban design already have traditional responses to designing beyond the city - the mythologising of the site through ‘Western eyes’ of ‘genius loci’, of ‘touching the earth lightly’, and the idyllic (or terrifying) landscape. The studio will contest these ideas to find new ways of designing civic places in regions and drawing out more complex narratives.
These ideas don’t acknowledge the dynamic changes and social challenges in regional cities – tourism, multiculturalism, nor the influence that local Indigenous culture could hold. The land is an overlay of different cultures, languages, and histories. Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has spoken of the three strands that form Australian culture: indigenous, settler and multicultural. It is a powerful idea to through which to reconsider the complexities, layers, and reconciliation of these groups and will also inform how the studio explores the territory. There are many more complex questions to explore; how do we identify a ‘regional character’, where should these borders be drawn, responding to the rich history of Victorian-era boomtimes, making an urbanism without density, unpacking the colonial planned city, and if the opposition of ‘city and country’ is still relevant or useful? These are questions we ask about our own projects, and like the Lyons practice, projects will be undertaken as collaborative group work to speculate and research through design. Studio will be held at Lyons, Level 3, 246 Bourke St, Wednesdays 5 – 9pm. Studio Leaders: Professor Carey Lyon, Adam Pustola, Nina Wyatt, Vicky Li and Lyons studio guests
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EXPERIMENTAL CITIES:
An Interdisciplinary Design Research Studio | Landscape Architecture | Architecture RMIT 2021 The Experimental Cities: CityX international studio project, in conjunction with the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020/21 Biennale Sessions, will address the sustainability and urban challenges facing the city of the future.
Studio Leaders Associate Professor Charles Anderson Professor Tom Kovac with Michele Pasca, (Director Zaha Hadid Architects) + RA’s: Nick Bao | Hesan Mohamed | Dookee a Ung
Two site locations are proposed for this investigation: the Xiong’an New Area City and the special district of Ma Wan island in the City of Hong Kong. The two locations have been selected as key test sites for experimental projects to develop new resilient urban strategies in the face of climate change and the need to dramatically and urgently reduce the carbon footprint of our cities. Experimental Cities: CityX explores the future of cities in relation to the changing nature of the environment and our changing understanding of the environment and of our place within it. Engaging directly with climate change and its impacts at a local and regional scale, and working across a range of design disciplines and related practices, it seeks to envision scenarios for sustainable and resilient futures. Experimental Cities: CityX aims to more clearly understand new relationships and formations for human habitation, generating future scenarios for Chinese cities which respond to the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly changing world. Recognising that such design challenges are never discipline specific, this studio also adopts a necessarily interdisciplinary approach of thinking across, between and outside disciplines. By definition, the studio champions a necessary mixed-mode of design/creative research and experimentation. This includes embracing collaborative, interdisciplinary processes and open-ended, iterative, non-linear generative procedures, and questioning ‘normative’ design work flows of conceptualization, development and production.
Experimental Cities: CityX is an interdiciplinary studio run between Landscape Architcture and Architecture and will be an exhibiting participant in the next Venice Architecture Biennale, Biennale Sessions 2020/2021.
Week 1- Week 12 Wednesdays 17.30 - 21.30pm AEST | Microsoft Teams
Evolving through the semester, we hope that the Experimental Cities: CityX studio will provide a place for discussion, debate, speculation and lively interaction between the two cohorts of students as well as a range of academics, practitioners, professionals and stakeholders from around the world. In doing so Experimental Cities: CityX aims to foster a dynamic, participatory knowledge exchange and generate a range of propositional provocations regarding the design of our cities. Experimental Cities: CityX studio presents a unique opportunity to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale and in the evolving discussion about what the future of terrestial habitation might be. It is also the opportunity to work in collaboration with a range of practitioners and researchers from RMIT University, and around the world. Working across scales it is expected that the studio will produce large scale architectural, urban and landscape design propositions for Xiong’an special district and Man Wan Island Hong Kong. This aims to contribute to the broader discussion of the future of the Chinese City, which is at the heart of the CityX international project