There's a new show on at what is becoming known as Australia's only dedicated architecture gallery - Pin-up Architecture & Design Project space.
The Housing Project began July 20 and runs to August 28 in Collingwood, Victoria.
It is meant as a thought provoking exhibition and installation engaging with issues of urban design, density and housing.
It's running as part of the State of Design Festival and Melbourne Open House 2011.
A curated sound installation by Greyspace, users build an image of the city by interacting with a series of purpose-made ceramic artworks to compose a sound scape that reflects the topography of their city.
Photos by Tobias Titz
A cinematic presentation and landscape of models of contemporary affordable housing projects by an invited selection of Melbourne's leading architect and design practices will support the installation.
Performances of the sound installation and a late- night 'design debate' within a studio-like environment to showcase and debate issues around affordable housing solutions for our communities are not to be missed events, dates to be confirmed.
Pin-up is in a small warehouse in Collingwood, part of a multi-functional space called the Compound Interest that is also home to printers, a vintage motorcycle workshop and a display space for illustrators.
Fleur Watson, former editor of Monument magazine, and her partner, architect Martyn Hook, set up Pin-up earlier this year.
The Housing Project, they call an inventive art and architecture installation that uses "tangible computing" technology.
The gallery was profiled in a great article in The Australian by Robert Bevan in which he talks about the challenges of staging exhibitions of architecture, citing the world’s biggest example at the the City of Architecture and Heritage museum in Paris.
“But in the absence of a permanent architecture museum - or even a wing of a museum, as can be found in design-conscious countries such as Denmark, Finland and The Netherlands”, Bevan explains, it has been left to two Melburnians to fill the gap - Watson and Hook.
The Housing Project creative team: Ann Ferguson, Keith Deverell, Sue McCauley and Chris Knowles, working with a range of community participants
Pin-up curatorial/creative team: Fleur Watson, Martyn Hook, Emma Telfer
The Housing Project is supported by: the City of Melbourne, City of Yarra, ArtPlay, Australia Council for the Arts and VicHealth.
