Multimedia
Video Stories
Visions 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
Visions 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
Visions 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: 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 May 25 2009, 5.04 PM
Dr 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 May 4 2009, 2.40 PM
Public Lecture Recordings
- Dean's Lecture Series, Tuesday 28 April 2009: Winston Shu, Director of Integrated Design Associates, Hong Kong. Lecture title: Integrated Design - a Holistic Model
- Dean's Lecture Series, Tuesday 17 March 2009: Sheela Patel, Director of Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), Mumbai. Lecture title: Reconciling Poverty, Climate Change and Urbanisation in the 21st Century
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Dean’s Lecture Series, Tuesday 28 October 2008: Chris Luebkeman, Director for Global Foresight and Innovation, Arup, London Office. Lecture title: (Y)our Future: Considerations of a Rapidly Evolving Global Context
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Dean’s Lecture Series, Tuesday 7 October 2008: Jenny B. Osuldsen, Partner, Snøhetta AS, Oslo, Norwa. Lecture title: Between the Lines in the Landscape .....
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Dean’s Lecture Series, Wednesday 7 May 2008: Professor Wang Shu, Head of Architecture, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China. Lecture title: Rebuilding a Life-World in Collapsing Cities: My Design in Urban China
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Dean’s Lecture Series, Tuesday 29 July 2008: Cassio Taniguchi, Secretary for the Department of Urban and Environmental Development, Brasilia and former Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil. Lecture title: The Future of Cities
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Special public lecture, Tuesday 8 April 2008: Lieutenant General Gillespie, Vice Chief of the Australian Defence Force Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie AO DSC CSM. Lecture title: Military Building and Engineering: A View from the Top
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Special public lecture, Wednesday 19 March 2008: Angela Hijjas. Lecture title: Rimbun Dahan: Artists' Residency Program
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Special public lecture, Monday 17 March 2008: Hijjas Kasturi, Director, Hijjas Kasturi Associates Sdn. Lecture title: In Search of Identity in Architecture
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Dean’s Lecture Series, Tuesday 8 May 2007: Tom Kvan, Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Lecture title: On values & scales
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Dean’s Lecture Series, Tuesday 17 April 2007: Willy Drews, Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Lecture title: Thoughts from a Third World Architec'
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Dean’s Lecture Series, Tuesday 3 April 2007: - Ángel Antonio Garza Sastré, Director del Departamento de Arquitectura Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. Lecture title: Gazing and Transforming: Spanish heritage in the architecture of Luis Barragán
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Dean’s Lecture Series, Tuesday 27 March 2007: William J. Mitchell, Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Planning, Design Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA . Lecture title: Imagining MIT: Designing and Building a Campus for the Twenty-First Century
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Dean’s Lecture Series, Tuesday 13 March 2007: Richard Weller, Discipline Chair of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, University of Western Australia, Australia. Lecture title: Designatstructured: superficial signs and structural stress in contemporary landscape architecture
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Dean’s Lecture Series, Tuesday 26 February 2007: Jeremy Myerson, Professor of Design Studies and Co-Director of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, Royal College of Art, London. Lecture title: From bullpen to brainstorm: workspace for innovation in the knowledge economy