VEIL Studio at the Grid, Corridor & Field Exhibition
Reimagining the car-dependent suburb of Rowville Grid, Corridor & Field is a response to the urban planning and design challenges facing...

VEIL Exhibition at the Festival of Ideas
Unveiling the EBD: 8000 visitors to the Festival of Ideas "VEIL’s Melbourne Eco-City plan created a framework for a new high-density residential...

SCRT Sustainable Sharing
SUSTAINABLE SHARING Sustainable Cities Round Table A networking and information event presented by SustainableMelbourne.com, a project of the...

Eco-City Exhibition
ECO-CITY MELBOURNE building a low carbon future Wednesday 25th – Saturday 28th February 2009 An exhibition of designs for an Ecological Business...

VEIL Research Positions Available - Food Freight / Distribution Systems
The Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab is seeking expressions of interest to undertake two research projects on food freight / distribution systems: Part...

Kirsten Larsen speaking at the opening of the Melbourne Social Forum Hot-House Festival: Food Matters: Challenges and responses
Kirsten highlights that to avoid irreversible climate change we need to fundamentally and immediately transform what and how we eat. Food production...

Food Sensitive Urban Design at Agri-Food 2008
VEIL's policy research manager Kirsten Larsen presented to the Sydney Agri-food conference on the concept of 'Food Sensitive Urban Design' - a term...

References

Mapping Meals in Metropolis at Agri-Food Conference 2008
Ferne Edwards, Sustainable Cities Research Officer, presented her food mapping work from VEIL at the 2008 Agri-Food conference in Sydney. The paper...

Peter Harper Bendigo presentation on CAT
The slides from Peter Harpers Bendigo presentation looking at the development of the Center for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales.

Mobility Design Hub
How will we get around in the City of Short Distances? The Mobility Hub was conducted in December 08 and January 09, and was informed by research...

Low Carbon Urban Transport Workshop with GAMUT
VEIL had the pleasure in assisting GAMUT (The Australasian Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport) with four day workshop on...

Melbourne 2032: Looking back over the last 25 years
[Edited extract from an internal report of the Victorian Department of Eco-Innovation and Sustainable Living (DEISL), January 2032: "Melbourne: the...

ReDesign 2032 - an innovative design industry
The job of ReDesigning grew out of changes late last century, when manufacturers in Europe and Japan (and later in most industrialised countries)...

The Urban Center - living in a vertical community
  The Urban Center - living in a vertical community At around 2015 the residential towers of Melbourne, characteristic of the early 21st century,...

Ursula Tischner - Eco-Design: Product Service Systems
Ursula Tischner, architect and industrial designer, has more than 15 years experience in Eco-Design. These clips are from a lecture Ursula delivered...

Interview with Prof Chris Ryan
VEIL director Professor Chris Ryan was interviewed for Design Victoria on "Designing for a Sustainable Future". In this video Chris discusses the...

Sheridan Blunt - Melbourne City as Catchment
Sheridan Blunt is the Coordinator for the "Melbourne as Catchment" Research Project for the Melbourne City Council. Catchments are often thought of...

Mick Pearce - Tactics for Sustainable Cities
Mick Pearce is a Zimbabwean architect who is now working with Design Inc. He is also the designer of Melbourne's famous CH2 building. In this...

Jeremy Reynolds - Melbourne Population Trends
Jeremy Reynolds is the Managing Director of Demographic Research with the Department of Planning and Community Development, Victoria. His...

Distributed Systems Project Established
VEIL and the McCaughey Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing are collaborating on a project to strengthen the awareness and understanding...

Thinking about transport . .
The VEIL research team have been scoping the area of sustainable transport to see if and where the VEIL approach can add value. Following on from our...

Mapping Melbourne's Food
As part of "revealing the present" in urban food systems, Ferne has been conducting research using food mapping as a key tool. As part of this...

Grow Your Own in Melbourne
From March to May 2008, the VEIL research team were joined by Dorottya Hujber from Budapest, Hungary. Dorottya was visiting VEIL to complete her...

Policy Challenges: Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for Victoria
In April 2008 VEIL released our first policy challenges report - Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for Victoria: What do we know? What do we need...

EBD Design Studios
Glimpsing the new EcoCity  - how might we live better and consume less? The EBD Design Studios ran in all four participating universities - RMIT,...

Waste Net
How might sharing systems be supported by physical infrastructure?

Recreation Net
New and old structures combine to enable recreation and community activity.

Mobility Net
Increasing community sociability through integrated transport systems.

Production Net
Existing and adapted structures become sites of sharing local produce and knowledge.