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Corporate Ecologies
Brett Milligan- Visiting Scholar
Tuesday April 29 @ 6.30 pm
Drinks before the lecture @ 6.00pm
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What are corporate landscapes? “Corporate landscape” has been loosely defined in contemporary landscape architectural practice in a manner that largely neglects or ignores the massive transformative impacts of corporate production. Rather than being limited to the cosmetic propaganda of corporate headquarters, corporate landscapes consist of geographically dispersed systems that occupy and transform land in specific and modular ways. Each corporate structure has a unique footprint upon the global landscape and a particular set of landscape effects.
Three design projects will be presented that map, modify and affect corporate systems. Navigating Bigness: Redefining Corporate Landscape proposes a spatial typology for corporate landscapes by appropriating the conventions of corporate annual reports to map the landscape footprint of an open-pit mining corporation. The Condit Dam Decommissioning Project is a federally mandated removal of the corporate owned Condit Dam, the largest hydroelectric dam to be removed thus far in the United States, in order to regenerate the damaged White Salmon River ecosystem. Urban Ecotones: Transitional Spaces for Commerce and Culture is the winning entry for The Integrating Habitats International design competition. This project proposes a long term design strategy for integrating corporate “big box” development into sustainable planning infrastructure for the city of Portland Oregon, emphasizing the effects post peak oil conditions will have on the city and corporate production.
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Fluctuating Borders Book Launch
edited by SueAnne Ware + Rosalea Monacella
Thursday 10th April 6:30pm at Loop 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne City.
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Architecture_ Lecture series_2008
public lecture
High-Performance Landscapes
Chris Reed- Stoss Landscape urbanism
Tuesday April 8 @ 6.30 pm
RMIT University Melbourne
360 Swanston Street, Building 8, Level 11, Lecture theatre 8.11.68
Drinks before the lecture @ 6.00pm
ALL WELCOME!
Chris Reed is the principal and founder of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, a Boston-based strategic design and planning practice. Stoss has distinguished itself internationally for a hybridized approach to public works projects rooted in infrastructure, functionality, and ecology. Stoss has been named finalist and winner in a number of international open space design and planning competitions, including the Erie Street Plaza in Milwaukee, the Lower Don Lands in Toronto, and the Safe Zone garden installation at Grand-Metis, Quebec, Canada. Most recently, Stoss was named an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, and its proposal for the Lower Don Lands in Toronto received a planning award from EDRA / Places / Metropolis. The firm’s work has just been published in a volume published by C3 Publishers of Korea. Current and recent work includes public waterfronts, brownfield reclamation projects, interim landscapes, and large-scale infrastructures and open spaces in the United States, Canada, Asia, and the Middle East. Reed teaches regularly at the University of Pennsylvania and has also taught at the Harvard Design School, the University of Virginia, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Toronto. He is a registered landscape architect.
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Retrospective Exhibition Catalogue – 25 Years of Landscape Architecture at RMIT
Copies can be purchased by emailing laalumni@rmit.edu.au
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RMIT Retrospective Exhibition
Thursday October 25th
(Exhibition October 25th – 9th December)
In collaboration with undergraduate students, the second Postscript event for 2007 was a retrospective exhibition of 25 years of RMIT’s landscape architecture undergraduate final projects. The event was officially opened by Leon Van Schaik, Professor of Innovation with former Head of School, Harriet Edquist and Perry Leathlean from Taylor, Cullity Leathlean. The event also launched the combined publication of the Retrospective Exhibition catalogue and 2006 Finito, an annual publication of final year student projects. This publication also included a series of opinions, critiques and perspectives by current and former Program Directors that discuss how the profession of landscape architecture and the RMIT undergraduate course has changed in the last 25 years.
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Review of Exhibition of Victorian entries and overall winners of the Hobart Waterfront International Design Competition RMIT, City CampusThursday March 8th (Exhibition ran 8 – 17th March)
In response to the overwhelming interest in the recent Hobart Waterfront International Design Competition, RMIT’s Landscape Architecture Alumni presented an exhibition of the Victorian entries and the overall competition winners. The event generated much discussion about competitions and practice providing an exciting opportunity to extend the design discourse within Landscape Architecture. The event, supported by the Competition’s organizers Sullivans Cove Waterfront Authority, was intended to generate informal discussion about the position of landscape architectural design in Victoria, design processes and competition constraints. Many of exhibitors attended from all over Victoria including staff from and were able to view each other’s panels and discuss their response to the competition brief. Darren Atkinson, President of AILA’s Victorian Chapter opened the exhibition and introduced the new RMIT landscape architecture Program Director, Rosalea Monacella who announced all the new student awards – acknowledging that many of the company sponsors were attending.
For more information please email la.alumni@rmit.edu.au
