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Vision Broadmeadows 2032: Exhibition

How can a large suburban city tackle climate change while creating strong economic growth and a vibrant local culture?

How could Broadmeadows change: How would a suburb like Broadmeadows cope if petrol, water electricity and food prices increased dramatically? What changes could take place locally to help Broadmeadows meet their future daily needs? How could the community turn around these 2010 pressures and develop 2032 local assets? What new businesses could be developed? What new types of housing could be created?

How could people interact with water, food, and energy? “A sustainable Broadmeadows is a transformed suburb with a thriving community that is low carbon, environmentally sensitive and resilient, it is able to recover from the shocks of climate change and extreme weather events. The people of Broadmeadows are more engaged in determining and participating their own future.”

What might small dispersed local infrastructure look like? “Our current conversations on infrastructure involve big public assets like schools, hospitals, electricity and roads. In the future local infrastructure might also be smaller more diverse and flexible, assets like; community water storage and treatment, local food production and markets, bicycle and local transport networks, neighbourhood workshops, micro-business networks, connected renewable energy systems. These local assets don’t operate independently but are connected to form bigger systems and networks.”

The Vision Broadmeadows 2032 exhibition, part of State of Design 2010, showcased designs from VEIL’s workshops with Melbourne University, RMIT, Monash University and Swinburne University in the fields of architecture, landscape design, industrial design, communication design and service design. Presenting a wide range of sustainable opportunities for the local area, it was held in the Ericsson Building at Broadmeadows and attracted close to 700 visitors, including local community groups.

EXHIBITION CREDITS

VEIL Exhibition Staff:

Curator: Dianne Moy
Producer: Michael Trudgeon
Project Management: Kate Archdeacon

Production Assistants:
Youssef Tayeb
Jessica Bird
Kirsten Larsen
Rob Eales
Philippa Abbott
Che Biggs

University Studio Leaders:

SWINBURNE
/INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Changing Patterns/Denis Smitka + Kate Bissett-Johnson

/SYSTEMS + SERVICES
Broadmeadows 2032/Mark Strachan

RMIT
/INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Thinktank/Simon Curlis

/SIAL
Next Gen Housing/Barnaby Bennett + Malte Wagenfeld + Mark Burry

/VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Broadmeadows 2032/Tania Ivanka

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
/ARCHITECTURE
Duck Build/Simon Cookes

/ARCHITECTURE
Mess 2/Ammon Beyerle + Lisa Dew

/LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Sustainable Sprawl/Sidh Singtusingha

Hume City Council Staff:

Dianna Yacoub
Matthew Wilson
Greg McLaren
Maria-Luisa Nardella

VEIL Hub Participants:

Ammon Beyerle, Nicola Dovey, Malte Wagenfeld, Simon Curlis, Graham Crist, Simon Whibley, Tanya Ivanka, Chris Ryan, Michael Trudgeon, Dianne Moy, Kate Archdeacon.