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VEIL - Victorian Eco Innovation Lab

EBD Design Studios
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
Staged Remediation
Lowered railway lines improve EBD connections with surrounding suburbs. 
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Urban Forest
Phytoremediation creates an urban forest, ready for integrated development.
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Integrated & Sustainable Landscapes
Addressing homelessness with the development of integrated & sustainable living systems.
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Reprogramming the EBD Landscape
What might people understand about process, time & their effect on the world, if the spaces they inhabit are woven around a post-industrial landscape?
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Visible Technologies Bike Trail
Creating physical and aural landmarks along integrated bike & stormwater trails.
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Sustainable Dreaming
Public access allows people to become aware of the space, and its processes, as the site slowly evolves through space and time. m_sykes

Extending Westgate Park
Creating a functioning space that connects technology, industry, ecology, awareness and social activities. bron_skidmore_hero1

Urban Design
Gama-dji Gurr: the Seed

Gama-dji Gurr: a seed emerging, waking up from sleeping Woiwurrung

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Divercity
Housing locations are matched with residents' food-growing interests. divercity

Architecture
Graft
A symbiotic relationship between pedestrian pathways and the buildings of the EBD.
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Vertical Farm
Multiple-level connections mimic horizontal uses of space.
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Office Farm
New workplace models - office buildings with greenhouse walls.
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EBD Town Hall and School
A Centre for Re-use, Research and Education EBD-_Town_Hall_A_Ali

HabItat
Breezeway
A passive energy clothes-dryer for shared living spaces.
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Aqua Anytime
What if the water you saved and recycled at home could be "banked" to use on your community garden plot? Ching_Tan

UteRail
Human-powered haulage from the pathways to the rooftop gardens.
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Split Fridge
Modular fridge compartments at the supermarket.
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Static Clean
Appliances designed specifically to be shared.
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Tower of Power
Why cool an empty fridge?
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Thermo Kettle
Changing perceptions of energy & water.
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MyQ Portable Hotplate
A portable induction hotplate: cook outdoors communally or quietly at home.
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ClearSpace Stove
A modular stovetop that packs away when not needed.
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HEXware
Straight sides for compact spaces.
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Visual Communications
Wear Woolly Socks

rethink energy consumption

rethink community

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Tall Cafe
Tall is a cafe which grows all of its own produce on and off site in vertical gardens. Tall_M_Yencken
Iconic? Yes. Sustainable?
Sustainable practices need to be able to question "normality". Sustainable_MCG

The Rooftop Garden Initiative
rooftops + agriculture = EBD Public Gardens Rooftop_L_Tidhar
EcoFood
Reducing food-mile impacts comprehensively through smart services. Ecofood_J_Lawson

More Than Once
reusable supermarket packaging more_than_P_Paikopoulos

EBD Playground
Capturing energy everywhere possible. EBD_Play_L_Mancini

Nero

 

Yellow = nearly there...            
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B.Honey
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. honey_web_hero

Shift
A bike-share system for the EBD and its surrounds. Shift_S_Oliver

Visible Water Tanks
Using colours to show where water is harvested and how it's re-used in the EBD. Tiffany_Chou

SmartCard
Indicators and incentives for tracking personal consumption of shared resources. Smart_Card_P_Thuaksuban

EBD Agri
Urban agriculture in the community. EBD_Agri_N_Sakura

Penny
A public bike system specifically for the EBD Penny_J_Sobey
Systems & Services
EBD Milk
A milk distribution hub for the EBD.
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Thrive
Creating social sustainability through information networks.
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Nature's Strips
Social interaction and co-operation: food localisation in the EBD. naturesstripshero

Circular
Most of the $53 billion worth of food wasted every year in Australia is still edible. 
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ZeroCar
Railway Recycling
Compacted waste used as wheels.
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Lady Bug
Flexibility, adaptability and efficiency. ladybug_c_ng

CargoCar
A vehicle for passengers or freight, depending on the need. cargocar_r_wettenhall

2two4
Desirability and adaptability for the EBD ShareCar. 
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Odyssey Water Vehicle
Travel through the EBD and up the Yarra River in a share-car.

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