Dear staff,

Fabricate is the official student newsletter at the Melbourne School of Design. You are receiving this email as a current student or staff member of the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning. The cover image is of the Secretariat Building in the planned city of Chandigarh in India. This modernist building with its rough concrete surface was designed by Swiss master architect Le Corbusier. It was one of many buildings design as geometric structures, in reinforced concrete and exposed brick – to reflect on the notion of ‘honesty of materials’. The planning of the city - a new capital for the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana - was based on the ideas of Le Corbusier’s Radiant City, as laid out by American architect and planner Albert Mayer. The anthropomorphic plan form categorised the city into different sections based on an economic hierarchy. Today Chandigarh has one of the highest per capita incomes and is amongst the cleanest cities in India.

Date: Invites to be sent out on Monday 13 or Tuesday 14 May

The Environments and Design Student Centre (EDSC) recently identified students who are on track to complete their degree at the end of Semester 1, and forwarded these names to the Graduations Office.  The Graduations Office will email these students on 13 or 14 May to invite them (provisionally) to attend an August ceremony.

If you believe you are eligible to attend an August ceremony, but have not been contacted by the Graduations team by Wednesday 15 May, please contact the student centre.

Important: If you are enrolled in a subject running in the June or July study period, or you have undertaken exchange, study abroad or cross-institutional study but have not yet provided the Student Centre with transcripts, it is unlikely that you will be eligible to graduate in August 2013.  The next available ceremony will be December 2013.

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Date: Ongoing in 2013

The ABP Graduate Committee meets formally on a monthly basis to consider issues relating to graduate coursework programs in the Melbourne School of Design. The Committee oversees the administration of programs and the development of policies and strategies for teaching and learning.

Its membership includes two student representatives, currently Adelise Pearson (Master of Urban Design) and Sam Sweeney (Master of Architecture). MSD students are invited to provide feedback to Adelise or Sam on course-level concerns (e.g. curricula, resources, etc.).

Please note that feedback relating to individual subjects or academics should be provided via the SES at the end of the semester and does not fall within the remit of the Committee.

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Date: Thursday 16 May
Time: 4.15 - 6.15 pm
Venue: BMW Edge @ Federation Square
Topic: New Technologies: New Processes - Architecture and Construction

A Roundtable Discussion on Changes in Architecture, Construction and Material Processes - organised by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, with the generous support of Fed Square.

This free public forum will be MC'd by Chair of Architectural Design, Donald Bates and features DLS speaker, Gregg Pasquarelli, SHoP Architects and SHoP construction, as well as a host of industry experts.

Topics for discussion

• New production techniques and processes for building
• The impact of digital documentation, fabrication and assembly
• Integrated design, fabrication, construction and verification
• Pre-fabrication and unitised construction
• Fast Prototyping and “custom” mass production

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Date: Applications close on Friday 17 May

Applications are now open for 2013 Dreamlarge Student Engagement Grants.

Dreamlarge Grants are designed to broaden student experiences during their education with the University of Melbourne, assist and promote the development of engagement projects between students of the University and external organisations, and enable students to apply their learning in projects which develop skills and leadership while improving the economic, social, environmental or cultural life of our region locally, nationally or internationally. Grants are available to groups of students. While normally for amounts up to $2,500, six grants of up to $5,000 are also available.

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Date: Applications close Sunday 9 June

Applications are invited for Fellowships at Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study (IAS). The IAS is a leading research institute, launched in October 2006 as a forum for high-level interdisciplinary debate on major themes. Applications are invited for three-month Fellowships linked to the theme Emergence, interpreted in its broadest sense as being applicable to events, ideas and physical processes.

Applicants should be mid/late career scholars and non-academics who have an established international reputation, or early/mid career individuals with an emerging international reputation who are beginning to shape the agenda in their field. Please send specific enquiries to Linda Crowe by clicking on the email button below.

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Date: Semester 2
Location: Parkville Campus

Are you interested in an exciting “real” project at the Werribee Park Open Range Zoo? Are you interested in design and research, architecture, environmental conservation, the landscape, native and African fauna, eco-tourism, way-finding and sustainability? If you are then enrol now in ABPL90303 Facilities for Social Sustainability for Semester 2, 2013.

This elective subject will be run under the expert eye of Studio Leader Greg Burgess and staff from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning.

Click on the email button below to contact Lindy Joubert for more information

Teaching Dates:  Monday 1 July to Saturday 6 July
Assessment: Group presentation and related slides (30%) & Essay (3,500 words) (70%)

This year Sheela Patel will be contributing to the teaching of the Melbourne School of Design’s subject Cities Without Slums.  Ms Patel is the founding director of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC), which plays a leading role in slum upgrading in Mumbai and is influential throughout India and the Global South.  Ms Patel is also Chair of Shack/Slum Dwellers International which operates in 38 countries.  The Faculty’s connection with Ms Patel includes her providing a Dean’s lecture in 2009, co-teaching here, through SPARC and India’s National Slum Dwellers Federation, hosting a Travelling Studio to Mumbai, and through SDI co-hosting a Travelling Studio to Cape Town. 

Click on the email button below to contact Professor Richard Tomlinson, Subject Co-ordinator for more information

Date: Thursday 30 May
Time: 9.00am - 5.00 pm
Venue: The Shell Building, Spring Street, Melbourne
Cost: $65. Concessions $40.

If architecture was more inclusive would it also be in a stronger position? Together with Parlour, the University of Melbourne invites you to participate in a day of discussion and debate about gender, agency and remaking the profession.

Architecture is in the midst of substantial change. How architects define themselves, how practices operate, and the range of roles and types of work pursued – all is up for grabs.

It’s also time for a more gender-inclusive profession, one that assists women and men to better balance professional and personal lives, to realise their full potential, and to stay in the profession.

Come along to spend the day with some fantastic thinkers, researchers and architects, and add your voice to the discussion.

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Date: 27 March 2013
Review by: Billy Greenham, President of the Melbourne University Planning Student Society (MUPSS)

As with every semester, a group of new students arrive and can often find it difficult to navigate the Masters of Urban Planning network. The MSD facilitates a great night of drinks and nibbles.  It also gives the chance for the current and new students to meet the staff, chat socially and build an important bond within our course.

As a student in my last semester, I still appreciate all of these evenings and encourage all MUP students to participate.  So look out for next semester's MUP Social Night, and in the meantime, if you want to keep up-to-date with MUPSS student social events, please go to the MUPSS Facebook page.

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Date: Tuesday 14 May
Time: 7.00 pm
Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

OUT OF PRACTICE

Gregg Pasquarelli, American Architect and a founding partner of SHoP Architects of New York, will join the internationally renowned speakers of the Dean's Lecture Series on 14 May this year, as he presents his lecture, Out of Practice.

Gregg, with his firm SHoP, has pushed the Architect's realm past form making and into software design, real estate development, emergent construction research and the co-development of new sustainable technologies. SHoP's recent work includes the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, a two-mile esplanade and park along the East River Waterfront, the Innovation Hub government complex in Botswana, Africa, the South Street Seaport redevelopment, a new Major League Soccer stadium in New York and projects for google in Mountain View, CA.

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Date: Friday 17 May -  Tuesday 18 June
Time: 9.00am - 5.00 pm
Venue: Wunderlich@757 Swanston Street

This winter ABP’s Alumni Retrospective Series plays host to an exciting exhibition which gives rare insight into the design process of architectural practice Denton Corker Marshall.

Denton Corker Marshall has practised internationally for decades. Works such as the Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Melbourne Museum and Australian embassies in Beijing, Tokyo and Jakarta demonstrate the practice’s significant contribution to the global architectural scene.

The Denton Corker Marshall Land Art: Nine Small Buildings exhibition will feature photographs, sketches and models for seven residential houses and two small buildings – the Australia Pavilion for the Venice Biennale, Italy, and the Stonehenge Visitor Centre and Interpretation Museum, UK.

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