Date: Tuesday 24 September 2013
Time: 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Venue: Baldwin Spencer Theatre

Do you have an academic average of 65% or more? Thinking of going on exchange/study abroad for Semester 2, 2014? Looking for some guidance with your overseas study plan?

The Environments and Design Student Centre will be holding an information session to assist students currently preparing their exchange or study abroad application. Students will have the opportunity to ask staff questions after the session.

Students attending this event must have already attended a myWorld First Step session.

Click the More information button below to book your place at the Bachelor of Environments Exchange and Study Abroad Information Session or a myWorld First Step session.

Last date to withdraw from standard Semester 2 subjects, take leave of absence or withdraw from your course without incurring a withdrawn grade on your academic record and a HECS-HELP/FEE-HELP/Fees liability is the Census date: Saturday 31 August, 2013.

Please note however that students must finalise their enrolment by Friday 30 August, 2013.

What do I need to consider before withdrawing from a subject?

International students
International students on student visas are expected to complete their course by the course end date on their Confirmation of Enrolment (COE). Usually you need to enrol in a standard load of 50 points per semester. You can only reduce your load in limited circumstances and an application is required. Further information about your visa and reducing your study load is available from International Student Services.

Local students
Local students do not need to apply to reduce their study load. Please note that dropping your study load to part-time study may affect Centrelink or scholarship benefits and eligibility for public transport concession.

Withdrawing from a subject may impact your progression in and duration of your course. Use the Handbook to check whether the subject you are considering withdrawing from is a prerequisite for subjects you intend to take in future or a corequisite for any subjects in your current enrolment. You can make an appointment with a student adviser if you would like to discuss your course plan.

Further information about managing your enrolment including how to withdraw from subjects is available on the Amending your Study Plan web page.

Submission Deadline: 9 September 2013
Prize: Top prize of $1000
Entries and queries: Email ABP Competitions

The 20-minute City suggests a compact local city based upon our work, recreation and social lives played out only 20 minutes from home. What does this mean for the provision of the systems on which we rely: energy, ecology, economy and culture?

Teams of three to five students are invited to devise a script and produce a five minute film for the ideal 20-minute City. You can record using a smart phone or camcorder.

The top five videos, as judged by an expert panel, will be exhibited as part of the University of Melbourne's Festival of Ideas.

Use all your skills in planning, design and digital technologies to make a mini-documentary for the future 20-minute City as utopia, dystopia or simply the new everyday.

The University of Melboune's Burnley Campus is celebrating the 150th year of its historic gardens. To celebrate, we are holding four one-day symposia exploring contemporary issues in urban landscapes. There are two symposia left in the series so don't miss out.

Contemporary Planting Design: Tuesday 10 September 2013
Garden Landscapes: Finding a New Way: Tuesday 19 November  2013

A special discount concession rate of $150 applies for students.

Application closing date: Wednesday 11 September 2013

Final year undergraduate students have the opportunity to secure a place in the 2014 Master of Teaching program before applicants from other universities are considered.

If you are accepted through the guaranteed entry scheme you:
• don’t need to apply through VTAC
• will be offered a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).

Applications are open from Monday 12 August 2013 and will close Wednesday 11 September 2013. Applications can be made through my.unimelb.edu.au.

Date: Thursday 29 August 2013
Time: 1.00pm
Venue: Open Stage, 757 Swanston Street

Professor James Weirick will present this free public lecture, The Griffin Plan for Canberra – a critical overview at the centenary of Walter Burley Griffin’s arrival in Australia.

Professor James Weirick is an Australian academic who is the Director of the Master of Urban Development and Design (MUDD) program at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.

Professor Weirick is considered  a world authority on Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, the architects who won the international competition to design the masterplan for Australia's capital, Canberra.

Date: Thursday 12 September - Friday 4 October 2013
Venue: Wunderlich Gallery, 757 Swanston

SIBLING will present ON/OFF, a dynamic exhibition as part of the ABP Alumni Survey Series this September in the Wunderlich @757. ON/OFF will explore the spatial implications of connectivity - an issue the eight directors of this young practice consider vital to the future of society.

SIBLING will also host several events throughout September, creating a petri-dish for field research and social exchange, including long lunches sans smart phones, cosmic thought exchanges and exercises for architects.

Date: Tuesday 20 August - Friday 30 August 2013
Venue: Wunderlich Gallery, 757 Swanston

Following their return from Japan, students from the Tokyo Travelling Studio will exhibit their work in the Wunderlich @757 Swanston Street. In July, a group of 16 highly motivated MSD Landscape Architecture students, under the leadership of Dr, Heike Rahmann, engaged in the overseas studio in partnership with Tokyo University. They considered urban regeneration issues in four different sites along the Sumida River, as well as visiting community leaders in Shibitachi (Miyagi Prefracture) to learn about disaster mitigation processes.

Melbourne School of Design Travelling Studios are 'working laboratories' for design thought and production and involve the exploration of complex, real-life issues.