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VEIL - Victorian Eco Innovation Lab

In 2008, VEIL ran a series of workshops with design staff from Melbourne, Monash, RMIT and Swinburne Universities who engaged with international and local experts to develop revolutionary visions for the E-Gate site as a zero-carbon eco-city. Around 200 students took these visions to develop design ideas for a demonstration city as a living expo of a low-carbon urban community, now known as the Ecological Business District (EBD). 
  • Designing the Sustainable Landscape
    Studio Leader: Dr. Sidh Sintusingha
    Tutor: Erwin Taal

    "Sowing the seeds of Sustainability"

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  • Urban Design
    Studio Leader:  Prof. Darko Radovic
    Tutors: Ian Woodcock, Jillian Walliss

    How might the key EBD principles come together as a development?

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  • Architecture
    Studio Leader: Simon Whibley
    Tutor: Matthew Herbert

     

    Built environment and activities of EBD.

    This architecture studio focused on the built environment and activities of the site.  There were three main themes: the food production quarter, the highly-dense low-rise transport area and the high-density (10 storey) vertical communities and neighborhoods.

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  • HabItat
    Studio Leader: Kate Bissett Johnson
    Tutor: Denis Smitka

     

    Low-consumption, high-density living for domestic rituals.

    This Industrial Design studio explored products for low-consumption, high-density living for domestic rituals - cooking, cleaning, gardening, food production, leisure etc.  Three scenarios - Shared, Technology-driven, Highly-serviced - provided a deeper engagement with the rituals as they might be in 2032.

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  • Visual Communications
    Studio Leader: Dr. Brad Haylock

     

    EBD branding, logo and identity.

    Third-year Visual Communication students were asked to consider how the lifestyles and businesses unique to the EBD might be communicated to a larger audience through branding, logo and identity.

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  • Systems & Services
    Studio Leader: Mark Strachan
    Tutors: Emma Luke, Andrew Hazelton

     

    Exploring EBD through its systems, specifically food production, the sharing community and integrated transport.

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  • ZeroCar
    Studio Leader: Ian Wong
    Tutor: David Flynn

     

    Innovative public and private transport services.

    If you live in a community that can't support personal car ownership, how does that change your expectation of transport and vehicle design? What innovative public and private transport services will be developed in Melbourne to provide for you as a customer?  This Industrial Design studio investigates local, commuter, industrial/infrastructure concept vehicles and transport service systems.

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