Posts Tagged ‘exhibition’
Vision Sunshine 2032: VEIL Exhibition
Posted in Events, Visions by Kate Archdeacon on December 2nd, 2011
| 6 December , 2011 10:00 am | to | 11 December , 2011 5:00 pm |
This exhibition is being hosted by the Victorian Eco Innovation Lab (VEIL). It includes work from University of Melbourne Architecture and Landscape Architecture studios envisioning a sustainable future for Sunshine, as well as a selection of student works from previous studios as part of VEIL’s Eco-Acupuncture studio program 2009-2011.
The exhibition will be launched by Professor Thomas Kvan, Dean, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, University of Melbourne.
6 – 11 December
Shop 51, Sunshine Plaza Shopping Centre
324-328 Hampshire Rd
Sunshine
The exhibition is easy to get to via public transport. Download a map.
Open Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm.
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Sustainable Melbourne is a VEIL project.
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Do we have a Plan B? Exhibition: Fishmarkets in Japan
Posted in Events, Opinion by chardman25 on October 24th, 2011
| 27 October , 2011 | ||
| 6:30 pm |
“Scientific paper, after scientific paper that I read all seem to present the simple statement – that our oceans are dying and we are killing them. The oceans are the life force that keeps our planet alive – yet it has been predicted that we will have wiped out all the life in the oceans by 2049. This is within my lifetime – and this is just one of those things which keeps me awake at night. I wonder: Do we have a plan B? What shall we humans do, once we fish the last fish?” Georgia Laughton
In February 2011, Georgia went to Taiji Japan for a month to photograph the annual 6 month-long dolphin slaughters. Planning to return in September 2011, the day prior to her arrival back in Kii Katsurra, a typhoon struck this area – with a death tally of more than one hundred people. With the town in crisis, a plan B for her time in Japan was launched – and time was spent in Tokyo exploring and photographing the fish market there.
Do we have a plan B? is graphic and confronting images of Georgia’s exploration of fish markets in during her visits to Japan – and she poses the question: Do we have a plan B for when we kill the ocean?
Do we have a Plan B? is showing at one hundredth gallery between 26 October and 6 November.
Opening night October 27, 6:30pm
one hundredth gallery is located at 49 Porter Street Prahran (between greville and commercial) and is open Wednesday – Friday 11-7 and Saturday – Sunday 12-5.
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Exhibition Launch: Land is Life
Posted in Events by bencampbell on August 25th, 2011
| 4 September , 2011 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
Exhibition Launch: Land is Life, a free photographic exhibition by Oxfam Australia
Award winning photographer Rodney Dekker travelled with Oxfam to the Pacific Islands nations of Tuvalu and Kiribati, recording images and interviews with people whose daily lives and livelihoods are being affected by climate change. This striking series of images shows aspects of daily life and culture, the impact of rising sea levels on local food crops and fresh water supplies and how people are adapting to climate change. The photos also tell of a spirit of determination and innovation as they prepare for their futures.
Additional to the photographs, we will be exhibiting climate change related art created by local artists. There will also be live music and finger food at the event. The exhibition will be officially launched by Federal Member for Kooyong, Josh Frydenberg. Following the launch event, Land is Life will be held at Kew Library from Monday 5th September to Wednesday 5th October.
You can preview some of the photographs here: http://www.oxfam.org.au/act/events/land-is-life
Date: Sunday 4th September 2011
Time: 1.00pm to 4.00pm
Location: QPO, 186 High Street, Kew
RSVP: By Monday 31st August to Ben Campbell – benc@oxfam.org.au or 0416 305 004
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Eco-Acupuncture 2010: VEIL Exhibition
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on September 23rd, 2010
| 27 September , 2010 9:00 am | to | 8 October , 2010 5:00 pm |
What might a sustainable and resilient neighbourhood look like ? How can we transform existing urban communities through design interventions?
To develop low-carbon resilient communities from within the existing fabric of (sub)urban life it is important to have two things: visions of desirable future living scenarios – and visible interventions, today, that can re-orient the path of future development. Since 2007, the Victorian Eco Innovation Lab [VEIL] has been exploring the transformative power of future visions for new developments in Melbourne. This work has been complemented by another program with design professionals, academics and students, working with an existing community, to design a suite of local interventions that can release community energy for building a sustainable neighbourhood. VEIL calls this new program: Eco-Acupuncture.
This exhibition introduces two projects, one looking at a future development north of Docklands; the other sited at Broadmeadows, a suburb currently wrestling with many of the problems facing Australian suburbs. New developments can create sustainable communities from scratch; Broadmeadows requires the ‘retrofitting’ of an existing community. VEIL work has focused on food, water, transport, energy, information and eco-businesses and services and the development of new Local Activities Districts. ‘Broady’ is a place of rich cultural diversity and history, opening up many possibilities for innovative design thinking.
The exhibition features work in collaboration with the Hume City council, from design professionals and design studios held at Melbourne University, RMIT University, Monash University and Swinburne University in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design, communication and service design, 2008-10.
Exhibition dates: Monday 27 September to Friday 08 October. Monday to Friday: 9am to 5pm.
Location: The foyer, Urban Workshop. 50 Lonsdale Street. Melbourne. 3000
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Broadmeadows 2032 Exhibition: New Photos!
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on July 21st, 2010
Vision: Broadmeadows 2032 is the latest and greatest VEIL Exhibition. Student works, designers, local suppliers, council and sponsors – it has all come together in the Ericsson Building at Broadmeadows. Visit us and check out these explorations of visions and ideas for the future of a thriving suburban community.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Dates: 19th to 25th July, 2010
Times: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday 10am to 4pm
Location: The Ericsson Administration building, 61 Riggall St, Corner Blair and Riggall Streets (Enter via Blair Street) Broadmeadows
Parking: On-site 200 meters from entry
Accessibility: Wheelchair access is provided
GETTING THERE
The # 532 and the #540 buses run from Broadmeadows Train Station past the Ericsson Building. The Station is an easy daytime walk from the Exhibition and it only takes 8 minutes by bike!
Visit Viclink’s Journey Planner for more details.
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Vision Broadmeadows 2032: VEIL Exhibition
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on July 12th, 2010
The City of Hume is a rapidly developing centre north of Melbourne, caught up in many of the problems of burgeoning suburban sprawl, population growth, climate change, stressed infrastructure and impending broad-brush state planning initiatives. The Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab, VEIL, has been involved in an ongoing process of consultation and workshops with Hume City Council. This work has also local government, along with design students and academics. This free public exhibition explores and visualises the outcomes from this design research and visioning for Broadmeadows.
Visions of a transformed future for 2032 can build desirable, optimistic expectations, but sites of intervention have to be found today, that can shift the dynamics of development and release new community energy for change. VEIL, along with the Council, has identified a number of key potential ‘Eco-Acupuncture’ points within the Broadmeadows/Central Activities District area. VEIL is exploring and visualising a series of distributed and connected experimental visions for the future development of the region.
Vision: Broadmeadows 2032 showcases a series of design projects from Melbourne University, RMIT, Monash University and Swinburne University in the fields of architecture, landscape design, industrial design, communication design and service design. These ideas will be further developed and carried forward by Hume City Council in new and emerging strategic planning.
Monday 19 – Sunday 25 July, 2010
Monday – Friday: 9am – 5pm Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 4pm
Location: The Ericsson Administration Building
61 Riggall St, Corner of Blair & Riggall Streets
(enter via Blair Street)
Broadmeadows VIC 3047
Details: trudgeon@unimelb.edu.au (visit the website for transport details).
Presented by: Victorian Eco Innovation Lab, Sponsored by: Sustainability Victoria, Hume City Council, and Photography Studies College
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Gardens in Germany: Schrebergärten Exhibition
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on June 7th, 2010
Source: Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network
When travelling through Germany by train, they can be seen everywhere in the vicinity of large cities: ‘Schrebergärten’, groups of small fenced allotment gardens, all in perfect alignment to each other. The first allotment gardens in Germany, the ‘Schrebergärten’ originated in Leipzig. They were established as school gardens by Dr. Karl Gsell, who named them after his physician father in law, however it was Ernst Innocent Hauschild, a school principal, whose interest led to the founding of the first Schrebergarten Association in 1864.
These small recreational islands were intended to provide better nutrition, contact with nature and fresh air – a real benefit for the people, especially the city children of the industrial era. Garden allotments could alleviate the longing for life in the country and the freedom of working, relaxing and playing outdoors. And for people living in cities they played an important role in the growing of food supplies during times of crisis, war and post-war famine.
Homegrown, The Art of Gardening Sustainably: Exhibition
Posted in Events by fga on January 19th, 2010
An exhibition to spread the word about sustainable gardening and raise funds for SGA (Sustainable Gardening Australia).
We have artists who are passionate about living sustainably and are keen to exhibit works in various media which respond to the idea of gardening sustainably, particularly growing our own food. Artworks range from vibrant colourful paintings of cabbages to ceramic cabbages, to photographs of carrots, to sculpture in clay or recycled metal, to intricate botanical illustrations to paintings of gardens. Deborah Halpern, well known Melbourne sculptor will be opening the exhibition, and Jane Edmanson, author, garden identity and presenter on TV & radio, will also be at the opening.
Opening: 6 to 8pm, Thursday 4th February 2010
Exhibition: Friday 5th Feb – Sunday 14th Feb 2010
Address: Bolin Bolin Gallery at Bulleen Art & Garden, 6 Manningham Rd W., Bulleen.
RSVP essential: Meredith@baag.com.au (9850-8165) by 1st Feb
More information.
This is a neighbourhood event of the Sustainable Living Festival.
Urban Interior Occupation Exhibition
Posted in Events by Devin Maeztri on September 10th, 2008
What: Exhibition “Urban Interior Occupation”
When: 9 – 20 September 2008
Where: Craft Victoria Gallery, Galleries 1, 2+3
Urban Interior is a creative research group based at RMIT University. During September, UI will occupy Craft Victoria’s gallery spaces and surrounds to explore the spatial and temporal dimensions of the inhabited, urban environment. Using exhibition as medium of research, UI will create a research laboratory through a number of parallel events and installations at Craft Victoria.
Heat and Climate Change Art Exhibition – 12 Sept to 18 Oct 2008
Posted in Events by Ferne Edwards on September 3rd, 2008
HEAT is a collaborative project between RMIT Gallery & the Art & Sustainability Research Cluster, RMIT University.
To be held at RMIT GALLERY 344 Swanston Street Melbourne 3000 Tel: +61 3 9925 1717 Email:rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au, www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery
HOURS Monday–Friday 11–5 Saturday 2–5 Closed Sundays and public holidays. Lift access. Free admission.
