Landscape Architecture_ Lecture series_Brett Milligan

Landscape Architecture_ Lecture series_2008

public lecture

Corporate Ecologies

Brett Milligan- Visiting Scholar

Tuesday April 29 @ 6.30 pm

 360 Swanston Street, Building 8, Level 11, Lecture theatre 8.11.68

Drinks before the lecture @ 6.00pm

ALL WELCOME!

 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.

Brett Milligan is a visiting scholar in the department of Landscape Architecture at RMIT. He is visiting Australia from the United States where he works as a designer for GreenWorks Landscape Architecture and Environmental design in Portland, Oregon. Brett has received national and international awards for his design work, including the excellence in landscape communication and excellence in design awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects.

 

 

 

Fluctuating Borders Book Launch

edited by SueAnne Ware + Rosalea Monacella

Thursday 10th April 6:30pm at Loop 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne City.

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.