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VEIL - Victorian Eco Innovation Lab

2007-08
Consuming 2032
PCI - Production Consumption Interchange

How could shopping centers provide social spaces that encourage reflective consumption?
Simulating Selection
How might shopping centres be reconfigured / redesigned to increase efficiency and reduce impulse-buying?

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Shifting work- and recreation spaces into the defunct carparks of suburban transport hubs.
Slow Clothes
Sustainability activity represented through architecture.
Wasted Space - using the city tram system in a new and innovative way
Using existing public transport infrastructure to move material waste around the city.

Tactics and Strategies
Production Net
Existing and adapted structures become sites of sharing local produce and knowledge.
Mobility Net
Increasing community sociability through integrated transport systems.
Recreation Net
New and old structures combine to enable recreation and community activity.
Waste Net
How might sharing systems be supported by physical infrastructure?
3007
TBC - To Be Constructed
What does it take to keep a building for 1000 years?
Future Primitive: 3007 Tent
A 1000 year tent is a structure that can respond to unexpected change - is the most enduring solution the least permanent one?

SETI: Livable Dish
A thousand-year communications project supported by its own city.
Sustainable Sprawl
Altona Nth Waste Processing Plant and Parkland
A long-term approach to waste management
Phytoremediation as a Design Approach
Disintegration and remediation – shifting spaces from private industrial to public recreational.
Experimental Agriculture
An ongoing experiment in architecture and agriculture to improve sustainability.
Productive Recreational Landscapes: using the golf course for food
Sharing golf courses for urban food production.
Smart Green Schools
The 3D Textbook: Water

How might a school building teach students about the value of water?
The 3D Textbook: Energy


How could a school building teach students about solar energy?
Visualising Networked Neighbourhoods
CoCaring Networked Neighbourhood
What if buildings were designed to provide maximum green space? CoCaring Neighbourhood - Hero Shot
The Ocean BikePath
Imagine light flowing like waves as riders travel along…

Knotting In Ceres
What if houses grew the energy they needed?
Nicholson St. Energy Centre
Sharing energy harvest, space and water in a neighbourhood block.
Industrial Design
Veggie Patch
Plug-in-and-grow urban agriculture – food production for inner-city dwellers.
P2P Vehicle Concept: "Qva"
QVA: not a car, not a bike, not public transport, not privately owned.

 
DEX Cube Greywater System
Imagine park benches and street seats being used for stormwater storage.
Aqua Hub
A product-based response to emerging sustainability issues.

Meals In Metropolis
Meals In Metropolis

 

What models of urban agriculture exist in Melbourne ?

How could they be improved?

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