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At the Knox Stringybark Suburban Sustainability Festival on October 17 & 18, VEIL was proud to exhibit a selection of student works 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 inflation of petrol prices to more than $5.00 a litre? The 2009 way-of-living with cars is no longer affordable. Our suburbs and services have all been created around the notion that we would always be able to use our cars, and have access to cheap petrol. The event of peak oil would change the ways we conducted our everyday lives. How would life continue? How would we move things around and how could we move around ourselves? Design students across Melbourne’s leading universities were asked to respond to this problem. The resulting designs propose a range of possibilities for a more localised Rowville, and explore providing more localised access to everyday life necessities.
The exhibited works were taken from VEIL City of Short Distances Studios run at the University of Melbourne, RMIT, Swinburne University and Monash University.
Exhibition Credits
Management
Curator: Dianne Moy
Assistant: Kate Archdeacon
Events
Speaker: Prof. Chris Ryan
Selby Coxon, Mark Richardson (Monash University), Kate Bissett-Johnson, Mark Strachan, Blair Kuys (Swinburne), Simon Curlis, Malte Wagenfeld (RMIT), Simon Wollan, Ammon Beyerle, Ian Woodcock (University of Melbourne), Michael Trudgeon (Crowd Productions), Post-graduate Researchers (GAMUT), Chris Loader (Bus Association Victoria), Dianne Moy, Prof. Chris Ryan, Kate Archdeacon (VEIL)
Design Studios
Visioning Mobility (RMIT)
| Elective Tutor: |
Kate Archdeacon |
| Exhibiting Students: |
Jessica Bird, John Bof, Roger Wettenhall |
Design Internship (VEIL)
| Supervisor: |
Dianne Moy |
| Assistant: |
Kate Archdeacon |
| Exhibiting Students: |
Craig Artemiou (Swinburne), Youssef Tayeb (RMIT) |
Sustainable Vacation (RMIT)
| Studio Leader: |
Simon Curlis
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| Exhibiting Students: |
Hernan Fioravanti, Paddy Ryan, Caroline Brahme, Benji (Yik Ngo) Poon |
Eco-Chic (Monash)
| Studio Leader: |
Mark Richardson |
| Exhibiting Students: |
Daniel Dobrogorsky, Wei-Pai, Ali (Jeff) Jafari, Beichen Nan, Dom Dowling |
Mess. Everyday Babylon (University of Melbourne)
| Studio Leaders: |
Simon Wollan, Ammon Allan Beyerle |
| Exhibiting Students: |
Chan Chee Weng, Amanda Tan, Hong Yi, Chyuan Lim, Stephanie Westbrook, Jeremy Yam, Flynn Lewer |
Product Engineering (Swinburne)
| Studio Leader: |
Blair Kuys
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| Students: |
David Rudge, Peter McMahon, Jason Mathews, Alex Knorr, Jacki Downing, Nick Johnston, Abbey Reynolds, James Burns, Jason Pickering, Craig Artemiou, James Harris, Luke Dewar, Jacob Magnaye, Rachit Vora, Dennis Lee, Hugh Tevelein |
Systems & Services (Swinburne)
| Studio Leader: |
Mark Strachan
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| Tutors: |
Emma Luke, Joel Wells
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| Exhibiting Students: |
Nikki Andrews, Oj Raj, Ivan Gunawan, Hong Ning Chan, Sam Pettigrove, Kerry Taylor, Yan Fei, Alexandra Chen, Joshua Ko, Liew Yu Yang,Dinesh Raghu, Luke Chaberka, Rebecca Hobson, Rory Grogan, Jorge Andre |
