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VEIL - Victorian Eco Innovation Lab

Research Case Studies

VEIL has a research stream that is tasked with identifying and exploring priority needs and opportunities for eco-innovation in Victoria.

Once an area has been identified, the research task focuses on 'revealing the present' by finding and interpreting innovations - technical, social and systemic - that offer new possibilities and directions. By interpreting and communicating the patterns being expressed in these innovations, we aim to change the landscape of expectations - more fully engaging with the sustainable futures that are possible and already being created.

As these innovations and patterns are identified and documented, they can also feed into the design work that happens through VEIL's visioning work.

Research News

Briefing Notes
Distributed Systems: A design model for sustainble and resilient infrastructure
How do we prepare now for a future of unprecedented resource scarcity and environmental change?  Unless we take radical steps to increase the...
Distributed Water Systems
Distributed Water Systems: A networked and localised approach for sustainable water services This extended briefing paper draws on case studies and...
An Overview of Development in Distributed Energy
This is VEIL's first briefing paper on distributed systems. Drawing on examples from states and cities in the EU and US, this paper demonstrates...
Current Activities
Food Supply Scenarios: Workshop 1 (23rd November)
The first workshop for our VicHealth Food Supply Scenarios project is being held on 23rd November. The overarching aim of the Workshop is to generate...
VicHealth funds VEIL Food Supply Scenarios Project
VicHealth has funded a VEIL-led consortium to investigate whether challenges to food production and increasing accountability for the environmental...
Distributed Systems Research
  VEIL and the McCaughey Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing are collaborating on a project to strengthen the awareness and...
Mapping Melbourne's Food
As part of "revealing the present" in urban food systems, Ferne has been conducting research using food mapping as a key tool. As part of this...
Thinking about transport . .
The VEIL research team have been scoping the area of sustainable transport to see if and where the VEIL approach can add value. Following on from our...
Food Supply Scenarios
Documents: Workshop 1
Documents related to the first workshop are attached below. These are: Background paper Workshop handbook - outlining the dynamics and drivers and...
Food Supply Scenarios: Workshop 1 (23rd November)
The first workshop for our VicHealth Food Supply Scenarios project was held on 23rd November. The overarching aim of the Workshop was to generate...
VicHealth funds VEIL Food Supply Scenarios Project
VicHealth has funded a VEIL-led consortium to investigate whether challenges to food production and increasing accountability for the environmental...
Completed Work
Briefing Paper: Distributed Water Systems
The second briefing paper in VEIL's distributed systems series is ready for release - Distributed Water Systems: A networked and localised approach...
Grow Your Own in Melbourne
From March to May 2008, the VEIL research team were joined by Dorottya Hujber from Budapest, Hungary. Dorottya was visiting VEIL to complete her...
Policy Challenges: Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for Victoria
In April 2008 VEIL released our first policy challenges report - Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for Victoria: What do we know? What do we need...


Our work and research requires ongoing observation and analysis of current trends and innovations in the fields of Food, Water, Transport and Distributed Systems. These inform VEIL's research and visioning work and come from all over the world as well as from Victoria. Use the links below to see more.

Food Water Transport Distributed Systems