Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

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Video Stories

Santiago Travelling Studio videoVisions Video Podcast: Episode 94: Grand (Digital) Designs
What can bamboo teach students about digital design?  Visions goes behind the scenes of the ‘Digital Design + Fabrication’ Workshop, run over summer for Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning students.  We look at how digital and computational design is evolving, and how a simple bamboo tripod joined by cable ties came to be a 40 metre installation at the recent St Kilda Festival.

 

Santiago Travelling Studio videoUp Close Podcast: Episode 129: Female-friendly cities
Associate Professor Carolyn Whitzman and Dr Kalpana Viswanath discuss planning for inclusivity in our urban spaces.

 

 

Santiago Travelling Studio videoVisions Video Podcast: Episode 66: Santiago Travelling Studio
Melbourne School of Design students journeyed to Chile in September on a travelling studio which asked them to propose sustainable and creative designs for a town in Patagonia - a town which had been destroyed by a volcano in May 2008. December 2009


 

Trash and Treasure videoVisions Video Podcast: Episode 46: Trash & Treasure
University of Melbourne students have built a complete shelter out
of household waste as part of an investigation into two pressing
national issues: waste disposal and housing affordability. February 2009

 

 

Trash and Treasure videoVisions Video Podcast: Episode 36: Murderous Melbourne
Students from the Master of Landscape Architecture program and third year Architecture to explore how Australian crime fiction could be used to push the boundaries of design and explore senses of place.  Their models and designs formed the centrepiece of 'Murderous Melbourne: A Celebration of Australian Crime Fiction and Place. The Video of the exhibition starts at 2:44 minutes into the episode. June 2009

 

Re-imagining Fitzroy videoVisions Video Podcast: Episode 31: Re-Imagining Fitzroy
The Re-Imaging Fitzroy Design Studio's brief was that to make cities more sustainable, and to intensify development around public transport. The Atherton Gardens precinct is a major opportunity to explore what intensification in the inner city might look like. The Video of this story starts at 2:30 minutes into the episode. March 2008

 

 

Video Press Releases

Place-making in central Melbourne - Dr Kate ShawMelbourne: 175 years old and with more work to do
On the 175th birthday of the city of Melbourne, Professor Miles Lewis says the city needs to overcome a long history of 'planning anarchy' to continue to grow.
UPDATED 31 August 2010

 

Place-making in central Melbourne - Dr Kate ShawPlace-making in central Melbourne: why community and student housing plans needs a rethink
Current planning and design policies do little to encourage interaction between local communities and students, who make up around half of the City of Melbourne's population, according to Dr Kate Shaw. UPDATED 25 May 2009

 

Housing density in Melbourne - Dr Carolyn WhitzmanDr Carolyn Whitzman on plans to increase housing density in Melbourne
Increasing Melbourne’s housing density along its major tram lines would help achieve the planning goals of Melbourne 2030 according to Dr Carolyn Whitzman at the University of Melbourne.
UPDATED 4 May 2009

 

 

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