APUBLICCONVENIENCE

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Everyone needs to go to the toilet and nearly all buildings are required to have toilets for the health and well being of the users. Toilets and bathrooms are spaces which provide amenity, comfort and meet building regulations. As spaces they are a key feature of a building which everyone experiences.

In Melbourne and many other cities and towns there has been a tradition of providing public amenities in public spaces for use by everyone. As pubic buildings many have been architecturally adventurous and innovative with the architecture celebrating their public and urban importance.

Many public conveniences have been closed or have disappeared as public morays have changed. Perceived public concerns about personal safety, hygiene, vandalism and access have seen the demise of the public convenience and their significance as public buildings. New issues such as gender equity, cultural identity, government spending and privatisation of public spaces have impacted their design.

This studio proposes to celebrate the public convenience as an important need, as a building that celebrates their public worth and their contribution to public spaces. You will study how the public convenience can experiment with ways to resolve contemporary issues of collective need, convenience and amenity, universal access, safety, gender and cultural identity, technological and construction innovation, and their importance of public buildings and contribution to public space.

STUDIO LEADER: PETER BICKLE ... CLASSES: MONDAY 2:30-5:30 + THURSDAY 2:30-5:30

DESIGN STUDIO: A Public Convenience

STUDIO LEADER: Peter Bickle

Bridal Shower is a new studio.

Bridal Shower will be run by Aimee Howard and Jack Murray.

Bridal Shower will be run with Laura Szyman.

Bridal Shower will be run alongside Dead Reckoning.

Bridal Shower will be run on Mondays and Thursdays 6-9pm.

Bridal Shower will be sited in West Melbourne.

Bridal Shower will involve a site visit on Thursday 20 July 3-6pm.

Bridal Shower will design a gallery.

Bridal Shower will design everything but a gallery.

Bridal Shower will investigate conceptual art.

Bridal Shower will investigate conceptual architecture.

Bridal Shower will investigate real architecture.

Bridal Shower will involve workshops.

Bridal Shower will involve in-class activities.

Bridal Shower will investigate the professional practice of art.

Bridal Shower will investigate the professional practice of architecture.

Bridal Shower will investigate the architectural practice of art.

Bridal Shower will investigate the artistic practice of architecture.

Bridal Shower is interested in analytic drawing.

Bridal Shower is interested in hand drawing.

Bridal Shower is interested in projective drawing.

Bridal Shower is interested in process.

Bridal Shower is interested in chance.

Bridal Shower is interested in accidents.

Bridal Shower is interested in blackbirds.

Bridal Shower is interested in machines.

Bridal Shower is interested in syzygy and clinamen.

Bridal Shower is interested in dada.

Bridal Shower is interested in language.

Bridal Shower is interested in language games.

Bridal Shower is interested in method.

Bridal Shower is interested in methodology.

Bridal Shower is interested in Marcel Duchamp, Elena Filipovic

Mary Kelly, Ewa Partum, Doris Salcedo, Bruce Nauman, Diller + Scofidio, Penelope Haralambidou, Rosalind Kraus, John Cage, Mona Hatoum, Mary Miss, Concha Jerez, Gabriel Orozco, Joseph Kosuth and Others.

DESIGN STUDIO: Bridal Shower

STUDIO LEADERS: Jack Murray and Aimee Howard, with Laura Szyman