More than 100 architecture and design practitioners, craftspeople and artists will race the clock between July 27 and 30 in an architecture and design competition taking place in Melbournes Docklands.
Melbournes Urban Reality: Landscape Urbanism three Day Design Challenge is an architectural and design event that challenges teams to design and construct a public space site in response to a brief.
As a result the Docklands will be transformed with interventions that offer alternate design solutions to the public realm.
The organizers say the winning teams will be awarded with prize money “and the pleasure of having a realised project in Melbournes public realm”.
RMIT Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Margaret Gardner AO, said good design is a vital to building liveable, sustainable and cohesive communities.
Melbournes Docklands will become the workshop, the camp, the dining room and the party venue for the teams over the three days, enriching the city with a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary experience.
The competition offers an innovative platform that encourages rapid change through human initiative and creativity, Professor Gardner said.
Melbournes Urban Reality: Landscape Urbanism three Day Design Challenge is part of the Victorian Governments State of Design Festival. The urban action competition invites professionals and residents to become active agents of change by responding to this years State of Design Festival theme design that moves.
Ten sites have been selected in various locations throughout the Docklands and guided tours will run each day offering visitors the opportunity to see the event in action and have input into what these spaces should entail.
What: Urban Realities: Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge Melbourne, Australia
When: 25-30 July, 2011
Where: Melbourne, Docklands
Website: www.urbanreality.org
