Eco-Acupuncture
Eco-Acupuncture
| VEIL has developed a unique process and methodology coined "EcoAcupuncture" - A process of design which concentrates on key areas to unlock potential sites throughout the local community, with targeted visions for change. |  |
September 2010 Exhibition
| Opportunities exist where system lines intersect and interact. |
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The ‘urban acupuncture’ metaphor seems to have been first used by Jaime Lerner, the ex-mayor of Curitiba in Brazil, to explain (in retrospect) the success of their urban development approach that has become a globally recognised and iconic model. The term 'Acupuncture' seems rich and apposite to describe what VEIL aims to achieve in its work to envision - and change – existing (sub)urban residential and commercial districts. The Eco-Acupuncture 2010 process for the Re-visioning Hume project, described as exploratory work by VEIL, undertaken in collaboration with the Hume City Council, identified a series of likely intervention point opportunities (see the ‘c’ point below) which are seen as domains of potentiality. These opportunities, which in this case are physical locations, are the starting points of the Eco-Acupuncture process and as in any complex body, urban or otherwise, all the system lines that are identified, intersect and interact. It is these interactions that provide the design challenge and opportunities.
When VEIL looks at project sites such as Broadmeadows and Dallas, we see potential.
We investigate the local area looking at different angles;> Environmental influences such as water and land conditions
> Urban influences such as houses, transport and energy
> Social influences such as history, knowledge, jobs, community activities and cultural diversity.