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MSD EVENTS
The Melbourne School of Design holds exhibitions, public lectures, seminars and conferences throughout the year. Our events can be viewed by month below. Click on a month to view the associated MSD events. Click again to close the pane.
 August 2012
7 August 2012
DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES
Carrillo Gantner Theatre, 7pm
Basement – Sidney Myer Asia Centre
The University of Melbourne
Caroline Bos
UNStudio, Amsterdam
More, not Less - Value Engineering for Architecture
The third international speaker in the 2012 MSD Dean's Lecture Series, architect Caroline Bos will reveal the value of strategically designed subsidiary spaces.
Co-founder of UNStudio, a Dutch architectural practice specialising in architecture, urban development and infrastructure projects, Caroline Bos will discuss the propensity to polarize prime, showcase spaces and the more humble subsidiary spaces. View details & register
May 2012
8 May 2012
DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES
Carrillo Gantner Theatre, 7pm
Basement, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne
Yoonjin Park + Jungyoon Kim
Park+Kim, Seoul
ALTERNATIVE NATURE
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The Founding Directors of innovative South Korean landscape design firm PARKKIM, Yoonjin Park and Jungyoon Kim will reveal their recent projects in this second Dean's Lecture for 2012. Yoonjin Park and Jungyoon Kim founded PARKKIM in 2004 to pursue landscape practice driven by the cultural and physical context that surrounds each distinctive project. Initially based in the Netherlands, PARKKIM moved to Seoul, South Korea in 2006.
April 2012
The Urban Age: Risk and Renewal
Brendan Gleeson, Professor of Urban Policy Studies
Date: Monday 30 April, 6pm
Venue: Prince Philip Theatre, Architecture Building, University of Melbourne
Brendan Gleeson, Professor of Urban Policy Studies at the University of Melbourne since January 2012, will give his professorial lecture on Monday 30 April at 6pm in the Prince Philip Theatre.
In his lecture, The Urban Age: Risk and Renewal, Brendan will consider the human species as urban, with increasing rates of migration towards cities in pursuit of modern ideals. Brendan looks at how we can manage this growth and restore the ideals of modernity without repeating past mistakes. He suggests that a time of great renewal beckons.
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Absent Methodologies and Adhoc Systems:
Design as Research and R&D in Australian Architectural firms
Dr Peter Raisbeck
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Date: Thursday 26 April @ 1pm
Venue: Japanese Room, First Floor Architecture Building, University of Melbourne
In Australia, as well as the UK and the Netherlands, the idea of design as research or R&D activity has emerged in order to count design outputs in research evaluation exercises. Architectural theorists, teaching academics and allied practitioners have argued that design is indeed a form of research. Yet despite these claims there has been little empirical examination of R&D in architectural firms. Architects conduct a wide range of research activities, including design as research, as part of the design process. This is perhaps why many architects claim the ‘design as research’ mantra. However, the methodologies, modes and normative practices of this type of research is rarely expounded or documented in practice. Being able to articulate these practices has implications for architecture in both academia and industry.
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Visualization, geography, and governance:
The theory, design and delivery of high performance participatory systems
A/Prof Kieron Bailey
School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona
Chaired by A/Prof Chris Pettit
Date: Thursday 19 April @ 1pm
Venue: Japanese Room, First Floor Architecture Building, University of Melbourne
How precisely can technologies such as GIS and geovisualization strengthen participation and thereby improve governance? It is tacitly assumed or claimed that goals such as “participation, collaboration and transparency” can be furthered using such systems. But it is not possible to design effective high performance participatory systems around unclear criteria or without attention to philosophies of citizenship and governance. Definitions for these criteria are disputed, and indicators and data for system performance are lacking.
Key questions include: What is the role of consensus in participatory methods, and Is it possible to deliver high process satisfaction when all outcome options are more or less undesirable to large numbers of people?
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Book Launch: Learning from the Japanese City: Looking East in Urban Design
By Barrie Shelton, Associate Professor in Urban Design
Date: Thursday 26 April 2012
Time: From 6pm
Venue: Wunderlich Gallery, Ground Floor, Architecture Building, University of Melbourne
An exciting new book by Barrie Shelton, Associate Professor in Urban Design, entitled, Learning from the Japanese City: Looking East in Urban Design, will be launched by Professor Tom Heneghan, Department of Architecture, Tokyo University of Arts at a special event in the Wunderlich Gallery on 26 April.
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March 2012
Interdisciplinary Research
Professor Abbas Rajabifard
Department of Infrastructure Engineering,
Melbourne School of Engineering
Introduced by Professor Bharat Dave
Date: Thursday 29 March @ 1pm
Venue: Japanese Room, Architecture Building, University of Melbourne
This seminar is the first multi-disciplinary event between the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP) and the Department of Infrastructure Engineering (IE), which is a comprehensive research-intensive department, combining Civil Engineering, Environmental Hydrology & Water Resources and Geomatics. It is envisioned that this seminar will help foster stronger collaborations between the two faculties and is in line with our strategy for pursuing multi-disciplinary activities. The seminar will introduce the major research activities and current research focus of both ABP and IE, to a wider audience. This will be the beginning of an expansion of our close and collaborative relationship, opening more channels for effective communication that lead to joint research activities, which leverage off the opportunities of both groups.
Prof. Rajabifard and selected
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Special lecture by Helsinki Design Lab’s DAN HILL
Dark Matter & Trojan Horses:
How might we use design strategically, to build better cities – and societies – by redesigning our cultures of decision-making?
Date: Tuesday 27 March @ 6pm
Venue: Prince Philip Theatre, Architecture Building, University of Melbourne
Designer and urbanist, Dan Hill has been leading the way in information and communication technologies since the early 1990s. Throughout a career focused on integrating design, technology, cities and people, Dan has been responsible for shaping many innovative, popular and critically acclaimed products, services and strategies including the iPlayer.
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16 March, 2012, 1:00pm-2:00pm
Special Lecture: Safeguarding and Rediscovering the Mughal Gardens of Kashmir
Speaker: Jan Haenraets, Associate in Atelier Anonymous
Japanese Room, Architecture Building
This presentation will illustrate in brief the history and background to the Mughal gardens of Kashmir, India, and how in recent years new initiatives occurred to enhance the protection, conservation and management of the gardens and their wider landscapes. The work done towards the preparation of a UNESCO World Heritage nomination will be highlighted and samples will be given of existing threats to these gardens and their key features. The lecture is based on ongoing advisory work by Jan Haenraets to the Indian National Trust for Arts and Cultural Heritage Jammu & Kashmir Chapter (INTACH J&K) on the Conservation of the Mughal Gardens of Kashmir. Jan will give an introduction to the conservation process for historic and cultural landscapes, from research to the implementation of projects and maintenance. The subject is explored through examples from conservation project work on cultural landscapes and historic parks and gardens for the National Trust for Scotland, the United States National Park Service and work in Kashmir, India for INTACH J&K.
Jan Haenraets of Atelier Anonymous is a Landscape Architect, Conservation Specialist and Environmental Advisor. He is an Associate in Atelier Anonymous, Vancouver, Canada. He graduated with a PhD in Landscape Conservation from De Montfort University UK, with a thesis on the subject of the ‘Conservation of Designed Landscapes of the Recent Past’. He is former Head of Gardens and Designed Landscapes of the National Trust for Scotland and worked on various Heritage Lottery Fund supported landscape conservation projects. His Landscape Architecture dissertation was on the ‘History of Monastic Gardens’, and he wrote his M.A. dissertation for the University of York about ‘Conservation, Awareness and the Historic Landscape’. He is currently an Advisor to the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, Jammu and Kashmir Chapter in the development of conservation management plans and a UNESCO World Heritage application for the Mughal Gardens of Kashmir. Jan is a member of the DOCOMOMO International Specialist Committee on Urbanism and landscapes.
1 March - 21 April, 2012
INFORMATION SESSIONS
International Information sessions: Indonesia, Malaysia, Latin America, China
The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning is offering information sessions. Meet and speak with us about programs offered through the Melbourne School of Design in Indonesia, Malaysia, Latin America and China.
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13 March 2012
DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES
Robert Buckley
Senior Fellow, New York School for Public Engagement, New York
CITIES OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH: MALTHUSIAN CITIES?
7.00pm
Carrillo Gantner Theatre
Basement, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne
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February 2012
27 February - 17 March, 2012
EXHIBITION
A New Building for the University of Melbourne
Wunderlich Gallery, Ground Floor, Architecture Building
Gallery Open: Monday to Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm
The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning is working towards creating a world-leading centre of education and research focused on the built environment.
Following an international design competition, we appointed the architectural team of John Wardle Architects (Melbourne) and NADAAA (Boston) to work with us to deliver our vision for a living, pedagogical building that is an exemplar of sustainable design and transformative teaching. We are now delighted to showcase the newly completed design schemes for our future building.
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27 February – 15 March, 2012
EXHIBITION
Hong Kong MSD Travelling Studio
Atrium, Architecture Building
An exhibition showcasing student work from the recent Travelling Studio to Hong Kong, led by Associate Professor Justyna Karakiewicz. The studio – titled ‘Coding for Volumetric Hyper Density’ - explored solutions to avoid coming to false conclusions based on preconceptions and assumptions.
The projects on display pose several questions: how do we read something not composed of letters, words or sentences but images, streets, voids, buildings and volumes? Is our view skewed by our preconceptions, cultural background, traditions, predigests and assumptions? Can we read functions, aesthetics and semiotics of spaces discretely or as an interwoven whole? And what can we do in order not to come up with false conclusions?
13 – 24 February, 2012
EXHIBITION
Beijing Memories: A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words
Atrium, Architecture Building
Opening Party: Tuesday 14 February @ 6pm
An exhibition of recent work by the noted Chinese photographer Wang Fang. The work on display depicts her imaginings of her home city, Beijing. The photographs depict both the view of the local and the view of the visitor, who has become accustomed to the comparatively leisurely flow of life in Central Europe.
Wang Fang’s photographs reflect the rapid change in the Chinese capital and document its dramatic effects on the population. The most obvious aspect of the transformation is visible in the architectural change. The hutongs (small narrow alleys and neighbourhoods) which once characterised Beijing are disappearing to accommodate new modern housing complexes. The destruction of traditional structures in favour of multi-storey residential complexes means a loss of tradition and originality. The exhibition depicts a city losing a part of its identity and beginning to resemble modern cities in other countries. A wide variety of subjects and materials are used in the creation of the exhibition, which will provide an interesting take on Beijing as an example of an ever changing city.
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