1. Shared Spaces
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Mess. Everyday Babylon.)

What if the high environmental-impact areas of houses were shared among neighbours? What if a sustainable future just meant reconfiguring the utility spaces of our homes – the laundries, ...

2. School + Incubator
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Mess. Everyday Babylon.)

Redundant car spaces: shared farmland for local schools and their neighbours. The School + Incubator project investigates some tricky questions in architecture - trying to mix schools ...

3. Community Center (Community Grocery Network)
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Systems & Services)

... cars and go to the supermarket for these types of purchases. The Community Grocery Network is a design for a low-carbon, local food distribution network for Rowville in 2032. The design makes the assumption ...

4. Café Tram
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Future Transport Systems)

... walk from any residence in Rowville.  The interior design of the shuttle incorporates modular small-business infrastructure, and the designers propose a café, serving breakfast and pre-prepared meals during ...

5. Grow: Light-Rail System
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Future Transport Systems)

Connecting community gardeners and local food with residents and commuters. The Grow Light Rail System provides transport around Rowville via articulated trams that travel down the ...

6. Satellite
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Future Transport Systems)

Transport & freight systems create satellite cities where once there were suburbs. In the year 2032, the suburb of Rowville will be linked to Metro Melbourne via a heavy rail extension ...

7. Family-friendly Trains
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Sustainable Vacation)

... there yet?' trip. From Rowville's proposed station, through to carriages that privilege play and activity, and services that remove the need to cart all that fits into a car boot, Family-friendly Trains ...

8. Rowville Recycling
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Systems & Services)

A low-carbon food-purchasing system for Rowville, using refillable packaging and smart technology. Rowville Recycling uses existing RFID technology embedded in plastic food containers. ...

9. Sharing Fences
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Mess. Everyday Babylon.)

This community can change size or form according to the needs of the occupants. Through understanding patterns of private blocks in the suburbs, Sharing Fences re-imagines new ways of ...

10. Inventory Incubators
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Mess. Everyday Babylon.)

Working + living hub / productive garden. This project takes the cul-de-sac to an imaginative place for a research, living, and exchange incubator. Cul-de-sacs, usually a little separate ...

11. Rowville Waste Management
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Systems & Services)

... now? This design is for a community composting system for Rowville. In their investigations students identified 42% of waste collected was recycling but only a few people were composting. In interviews ...

12. RiC
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Future Transport Systems)

For the smallest suburban streets: compact, flexible, and quiet. This small tram has been designed uniquely for Rowville. Able to travel on single or double tracks as well as roadways, ...

13. SyncX: sTram & sMart
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Systems & Services)

Tram as public transport and grocery distribution vehicle. A tram system for Rowville that is also able to deliver goods. There are sMart food Hubs located at some of the tram stops ...

14. Incubators Rowville 2032
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Mess. Everyday Babylon.)

Opening suburbs, increasing circulation, redefining urban villages. In the words of the designer:   Shortening Distances In Rowville 2032, the car has become obsolete thanks ...

15. Stringybark Sustainability Festival
(VEIL/Exhibitions)

... which explore designs of a possible sustainable future for Rowville. Setting The Scene: It is the year 2032 - how could Rowville become a sustainable community, able to prosper despite peak oil and the ...

16. VEIL Studio at the Grid, Corridor & Field Exhibition
(VEIL/Exhibitions)

Reimagining the car-dependent suburb of Rowville. Grid, Corridor & Field is a response to the urban planning and design challenges facing Melbourne. Over the last three months, ...