Inflection is a student-edited journal of the built environment: gathering and sharing new contributions to contemporary design discourse.

Currently, Inflection is seeking co-editors from any year level to be involved in our first edition – scheduled for publication in late 2014.

Enthusiastic, committed students with a passion for design media and design discourse can apply today. As a co-editor, you will share responsibility for a range of tasks from layout and graphic design to administration and logistics. Keen to join or learn more? Click below.

The Environments and Design Student Centre will:

• close at 12.00pm, Tuesday 24 December
   
• reopen at 9.00am, Thursday 2 January

Now is the perfect time to visit, call or email the Student Centre for troubleshooting or advice relating to your enrolment before the influx of new students arrives in the new year.

Click below for contact details.

Time is running out!

You need to re-enrol immediately if you plan to continue your studies in your course in 2014.

Who needs to re-enrol?
All students who are currently enrolled, or on leave of absence, and planning to continue their course in 2014, must re-enrol between the re-enrolment dates specified. You still need to re-enrol by the due date even if you want to take leave of absence from your studies in 2014.

You MUST re-enrol by Friday 13 December

If you haven’t re-enrolled by Friday 13 December 2013, you will incur a $100 late re-enrolment fee and your enrolment in your course may be cancelled.

Unsure of which subjects you plan to take?
You should enrol in subjects that you are likely to complete next year for the time being. You have until Week 2 each standard semester to change subjects, so you can select classes now and change them later if necessary. If you need information on subject selection, check out detailed sample course plans and the Handbook.

How do I re-enrol?
Re-enrol through my.unimelb.

As a result of changes made to the Architecture major for 2013, the major capstone subject Architecture Design Studio: Fire has been changed to become a 25 point subject.

This subject will run in both Semester 1 and Semester 2 of 2014.

How to change your enrolment from Semester 2 to 1

If you are enrolled in Architecture Design Studio: Fire in Semester 2, 2014 and wish to change your enrolment to Semester 1, please:

• Withdraw from ADS: Fire through my.unimelb
• Reenrol in ADS: Fire through your Study Plan, selecting the Semester 1 availability

Want to replace ADS: Sparks (12.5 points) with ADS: Fire (25 points)?

If you are completing the Architecture major and would like to add Architecture Design Studio: Fire to your major in place of Architecture Design Studio: Sparks and one other subject, please email BEnvs Student Advice requesting this change.

Make sure you include your student ID number and specify which two subjects you would like to replace with ADS: Fire - for example, "ADS: Sparks and Formative Ideas in Architecture."

Students who are not enrolled in a Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning subject in the summer semester will not be permitted access to ABP buildings from 20 December to 16 January.

Access to ABP buildings (757 Swanston, Lincoln Square, Baldwin Spencer and Frank Tate) will be available again from 17 January.

You have until 5.00pm Friday 13 December to collect any work, models or personal belongings from the 757 Swanston Street Building, Baldwin Spencer Building, Lincoln Square South Building and the Frank Tate Building. Anything left in these buildings after this date will be thrown out -- absolutely no exceptions.

Spaces that will be cleared on Friday 13 December include: 757 Swanston St All teaching spaces, student print room, model making spaces, stairwell study spaces, inside and on top of lockers Baldwin Spencer Student Lounge, teaching spaces including the Design Hall Frank Tate Informal study spaces and computer lab 33 Lincoln Square South All areas of Level 1 studio space, inside and on top of lockers

If you are concerned that your work may be required for further assessment we strongly encourage you to photograph it. Digital photos in most cases will be accepted as evidence of your work in the event that you are unable to resubmit the original.

Japan Travelling Studio Exhibition
Date: Wednesday 4 December - Friday 13 December
Venue: Wunderlich Gallery, 757 Swanston

Closing celebration
Date:  Wednesday 11 December
Time: 6.00pm - 9.00pm
Venue: Wunderlich Gallery, 757 Swanston
RSVP: Register online

Australian city structures are strongly radical with small centres of tall buildings and radiating highway and railway 'spokes'. Japan's city structures are a counterpoint. Common in Japan are extensive grid structures consisting of wide cross-city roads (flanked by high buildings) framing superblocks of narrow streets (and low buildings).

This pattern comes from a 90 year-old planning approach that emphasizes infrastructure and relates building height to roadwidth. However, although the approach is old, the forms are little studied. This exhibition combines the work of three studios over three years that explored Nagoya's urban structure, built form and urban design principles - how these work, might be improved and even applied in Melbourne.

A special closing celebration will take place on Wednesday 11 December at 6pm. Speakers include Professor Rob Adams, Director, City Design, City of Melbourne, and Director of Melbourne School of Design, Alan Pert.

Competition deadline: 26 November 2013
Prize value: Up to $1000

Have you got a great idea for a project or activity to engage your fellow Bachelor of Environments students?

Funding is available for projects that celebrate the Bachelor of Environments: the Course, the Campus and the Cohort.

Form a multidisciplinary team, develop a project or activity which celebrates our unique Bachelor of Environments Degree and be a winner. It couldn't be easier - after all, who knows the course and its students better than you!

Funding up to $1,000 is available for projects that fulfil the competition criteria. Your project should be something that appeals to students, such as a relevant conference or activity on campus, a support network, an integration program or something that taps into the skills and expertise you gain as a BEnvs student.

For more information including how to apply, submission requirements and selection criteria, click below.

The Architectural Association will be running a summer visiting school at Sydney between 28 January to 8 February 2014. The program is a two weeks intensive workshop catered for all levels of architecture students.

Participants will explore new spatial configuration using computation software (Rhino and Grasshopper) and we will build at 1:1 scale.

The workshop will be conducted by:

• Jeff Turko, AA Diploma Unit master
• Ian Maxwell, Supermanoeuvre & Senior Lecturer at UTS
• Paul Loh, Lecturer in Digital Architecture at University of Melbourne
• Tom Lea, AA Dip 12

Competition closing date: 24 March 2014
Prize: Total of USD 2 million

The Holcim Awards is an international competition that recognizes innovative projects and future-oriented concepts on regional and global levels. A total of USD 2 million in prize money is awarded in each three-year cycle.

The competition seeks projects that demonstrate an ability to stretch conventional notions about sustainable building and also balance environmental, social and economic performance – while also exemplifying architectural excellence and a high degree of transferability.

The competition has two categories:

• The Holcim Awards: open to architects, planners, engineers, project owners, builders and construction firms
• The Holcim Awards “Next Generation”: open to young professionals and university students where all project authors are no older than 30 years of age.