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 Langen Foundation building, near Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This semi subterranean concrete and glass building was designed by renown Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Ando who started his working life as a truck driver and then boxer, is an autodidactic architect. His style – strongly influenced by Japanese culture – takes into account the beauty of simplicity and uses strong large scale geometric shapes, often constructed from cast concrete. The undisturbed facades of his buildings are imbued by complex circulation paths within the building, to allow the visitor to concentrate on the personal experience of the spaces inside.

Date: Applications close Friday 31 May
Locations: Throughout Australia

Interested in learning more about heritage and conservation through a mentoring program? Australia ICOMOS, the key professional organisation for heritage practitioners across Australia, is offering its mentoring program in Victoria for a second time this year, in conjunction with Deakin University, Latrobe University and the University of Melbourne.

The program will run from late July to late October 2013. Selected students will be paired with experienced Australia ICOMOS members. Each pair will agree to meet at least three times during the program. There will be a launch event to introducing mentoring pairs to each other, held in late July, and a CV workshop (and another chance to socialise) later in the year.

If you are interested in participating, put in an expression of interest by the closing date.

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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: 15 May 2013
Review by: George Karanfilovski, Vice President of the Melbourne University Planning Student Society (MUPSS)

For some students, nearing the end of studies can be a time of great happiness after all those years of hard study (or sadness, depending how you look at it!), but it can also be a worrying time for students who are trying to crack into the employment market or are at least trying to develop some new contacts within their respected profession.

Fortunately for MUP students like me, the MSD hosted the annual MUP Careers Night on 15 May, a social function where 30 prospective employers from the planning profession were given the opportunity to meet later-year MUP students.

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Date: Wednesday 29 May
Time: 4.00 - 8.00 pm
Venue: Foyer Lvl 1 & 2, 757 Swanston Street Foyer
Places: only 100 available

How can the city begin to address its past impact on the environment? Can the city become a net contributor of ecosystem services, become a food producer and provide the social and educational frameworks for Melbourne’s population to be able to imagine an irresistible abundant future?

These are the questions that Masters students from Melbourne University will answer through their blue sky ideas on the renewal of the Queen Victoria Markets.

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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: 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: Application close Thursday 15 August
Prizes: Total USD 25 000

'The Disappearance of Architectures' HYP Cup 2013 International Student Competition in Architecture Design is now open for registration.

With Dominique Perrault chairing the jury, the first-place prize winner will be awarded approximately US $8,000. All prize winners will be invited to visit China and intern at China's top studios.

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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: Tuesday 28 May
Time: 6.30 - 7.30 pm
Venue: Harold White Theatre, 757 Swanston Street

The latest in our ABP Agenda series will see noted architect and artist, Lori Brown, address the issue of gender in the discipline of architecture. On 28 May, Lori will present Disciplining Identities, looking at the historical representations of the discipline of architecture and the associated gender identities perpetuated and why they must be broadened.

Drawing from research focusing on the broader implications of gender on the advancement of women's careers, Lori will discuss what it means to be a woman within the broader workforce where social and cultural constraints continue to prevent more women from reaching leadership positions. This will be contextualised with a few current events to demonstrate how gender regularly impacts one's daily life. Connecting these issues of gender to her own creative practice. Lori will discuss the broader framework of her research within feminist geography using examples from a number of projects.

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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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OUT OF PRACTICE: Recordings now online

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.

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