melbourne AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

vonne YANG & kiet NGUYEN: In the bush, one descends from a state of happiness, to state of survival, to the state of death, during the initial stage, we experience, we wonder, we live with no fear as one descends below the threshold of survival to death, one’s instinct of survival overpowers positivity, and we experience paranoia because of the fear from death. In the Australian bush, all animals, including humans enter a primitive mode of self-preservation on order to survive the harsh environment. We question whether there is a stage after death, in which machine can assist in the undertaking of the dead.

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

PennDesign
advisors: cecil BALMOND & ezio BLASETTI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

mark KOWALYOV & ZHU teng fei: Whilst walking the expansive arid flatlands of the Outback one could be consumed by the banality, the repetitive flat nature which starts to read as one solid block of rock, the only reprieve is the occasional flora, the gradual hills at points, but overall a consuming monotonous landscape. But when you kneel down, and look at the earth beneath you, you see the cracks and creases of the rock, you begin to pick at it, and you realise how soft the earth really is, and the possibilities of exposing the strataforma which lays beneath.

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

kathryn McKENZIE & sarah PAPADOPOULLOS: The scenario describes a situation of remote, dangerous and extreme Austarlian bush living: survival and sustainability in a remote location requires new innovations in biological and robotic mechanical systems. These systems are developed in direct response to the found substances and characteristics of the site itself.

The parasitic mechanism is proposed to continuously seek and harvest substances from the surrounding native trees - Banksia Serrata- in order to survive and continue a physical growth.

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

The Speculative Formation symposium, organized by Roland Snooks, will explore the role of computation within highly speculative approaches to architectural design. The discussion will address the volatile nature of complex systems and their indeterminacy in opposition to the role of computational design in exercising hierarchical control. Presentations and panel discussions will include: Ezio Blasetti, Anthony Burke, Dave Pigram, Vivian Mitsogianni, Paul Minifie, Pia Ednie-Brown, Francois Roche, Camille Lacadee, Tim Schork, Tom Kovac, and Roland Snooks.

Speculative Formation
Friday, 03/09
6.00 pm–9.00 pm / Building 8, level 11, room 68
RMIT Architecture Program
School of Architecture and Design
360 Swanston Street
Melbourne, VIC 3001

melbourne AUSTRAILIA

public lecture by feature article writer clark THENHAUS 19 august 2010
6:00-7:00pm RMIT Casey Plaza
launch / exhibition
7:30 - late 1000 Bend Gallery

kerb18 PlastiCity FantastiCity is the search for the future city. It interrogates the design of current cities and hyper-escalates ideas to a fictional realm, taking concepts to the brink of sanity. It aims to produce a collaboration of designers from different fields to produce less selfish ownership of designs.

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innsbruck AUSTRIA

thomas SCHAITER + manuel SEISS: the working- process of this project is mainly driven by pragmatic external and internal parameters, by stepwise introduction of algorithmic intelligence- and executive - layers. first we focused on the development of a master pan, with fluid and associative quality’s and gradient transitions. we translated these characteristics into a cluster of residential buildings with further more complex external and internal influences.

patrick SCHUMACHER studio

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