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 Mayakovskaya station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Opened in 1938, it is one of the finest examples of pre-World War II Stalinist Architecture and one of the USSR’s most extravagant architectural projects. The station – named after famed Russian poet and futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky, was built with art deco decoration envision by the poet, has reflective marble walls, high ceilings, grandiose chandeliers and stainless steel and pink rhodonite columns. The vaulted ceilings are capped with 35 niches, each with mosaics depicting utopian scenes of the Soviet Union.  The metro project itself was part of the Stalinist propaganda machine, to convince the riders that hard work and labour could create an underground paradise. The bright chandelier lights and intricate ceilings were akin to looking up at the sun.

Date: Applications close Friday 28 June
Locations: 'Walsh Street', South Yarra & McCaughey Court, Ormond College
Studio 2: Sunday 7 July – Friday 12 July

The application due date for Studio 2: Queen Victoria Market Car Park redevelopment, led by Master Architect Kerstin Thompson of Kerstin Thompson Architects has been extended by one week and now closes on Friday 28 June.

This master class is a one-week intensive studio subject held over six days and involves an intensive design studio culminating in design presentations by participants with critique by the studio tutors, invited guests and project stakeholders.

The subject ABPL90354 will be worth 12.5 points and students will be able to take it as a multidisciplinary elective or as architecture elective. All applicants must have completed ABPL90142 Master of Architecture Studio C or equivalent.

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Date: Applications close Friday 5 July 2013 (or Friday 21 June 2013 for the University of California and University of Michigan).

Thinking of enriching your degree by completing a semester abroad? The University of Melbourne Exchange program enables you to undertake a semester of study at a selected range of international partner universities.

Contact your specific student adviser to dscuss your study options and course plan. All students contemplating an exchange should attend a myWorld First Step session which will give you the information necessary to plan and apply for your exchange.

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Date: Tuesday 23 July
Time: 11.00 am – 12.30 pm
Venue: Baldwin Spencer Theatre, Baldwin Spencer Building

Not sure of which elective to choose for Semester 2 or in 2014? Want to enrich your degree by selecting an elective from one of the 5 different disciplines in the MSD?

The MSD is organising a discussion panel which aims to give students a better perspective on the different electives on offer in the fields of Architecture, Construction Management, Landscape Architecture, Property, Urban Design and Urban Planning – the 6 different disciplines areas within the Melbourne School of Design.

The panellist will share insights into their subjects and students will be able to ask questions about the electives on offer.

Click on the button below to book a place for the event via the Student Booking System: MSD Elective Discussion Panel category

Date: Monday 15 July - Sunday 28 July
Location: Parkville campus

Attention Master of Architecture Students - Opportunity to work alongside students from Nanjing University by undertaking the subject “Nanjing Host Studio” from 15 July to 28 July.

Studio Overview:

In 2012, a group of University of Melbourne students participated in the highly successful Nanjing Travelling Studio. This year, University of Melbourne will host students and staff from Nanjing University. The ‘Nanjing Host Studio’ is a two week intensive design elective worth 12.5 points.

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Date: Applications close Friday 28 June
Prize: Pool of $35,000

Now in its eighth year, the Reece Bathrooms Innovation Award (BIA) is looking for Australia’s finest professional and student product designers to explore Tomorrow’s Bathroom Today.

Entrants are asked to design an original bathroom product that uses technologies for one of the following categories: Destination Space, Sustainable Space, or Independent Space.

All participants are up for a chance to share in a prize pool to the value of $35,000. The winner also receives international recognition and media coverage and the chance to attend an industry event to network with international designers such as Roberto Palomba.

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Date: Aplications close Friday 2 August

The Melbourne School of Design is looking for ten first year Masters by Coursework students to join our Graduate Ambassador program commencing in Semester Two 2013.

This program is designed to assist MSD in promoting the built environment disciplines at events and outreach programs.

Successful students will possess demonstrated passion for their program, and an interest in gaining leadership and marketing experience. We are looking for an Ambassador team who will represent the range of programs and nationalities in MSD.

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Date: Various in July
Location: Parkville campus

A reminder to all MSD students interested in conservation and the wider issues related to the historic environment that during the break between semesters the Faculty is offering two separate electives both taught as intensives:

ABPL90282 The Principles of Conservation Subject Coordinator: Cameron Logan An overview of the issues, ideas and approaches that define the field of heritage and conservation.

ABPL90300 The Conservation of Materials Subject Coordinator: David Young A subject that explores characteristics and problems, and appropriate repair and conservation, of the materials of historic buildings

Date: Wednesday 26 June
Time: 8.00 pm
Venue: Father’s Office, Corner of Swanston and Little Lonsdale Street (above Strike Bowling Bar)

The Construction Students Association [CSA] is a platform for students, undertaking a construction related degree at the University of Melbourne, to connect with other construction students and industry.

To celebrate the formation of this group and to mark the end of exams, CSA is having drinks at Father's Office on Wednesday 26 June.

This is the perfect opportunity to meet your peers over a drink (or two, or three…). Friends and partners are more than welcome.

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Fresh out of the oven: The Studio Initiative is a fun and creative community that provides a free and independent mentoring programme. Run by recent alumni, the friendly mentors offer design and research advice in addition to technical consultation. It is open to all students within the ABP Faculty of all design streams and at all year levels.

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Date: November
Location: Burnley Campus
Coordinator: Dr Stephen Livesley

HORT90039 Green Infrastructure for Liveable Cities is a fantastic subject run by the Melbourne School of Land & Environment in November at the Burnley campus. The program allows you to play with green roofs and walls. You get to design them, build them, test them and understand them. Interested?

Students interested to enrol into this subject will have to contact their specific student adviser for assistance.

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Date: Applications close Friday 28 June
Prize: Three worth $2000 each to be spent on the development of their research proposal.

Open Agenda will award seed funding to three exceptional design research proposals exploring new positions in architecture for critical consideration.

We are looking for text and graphic based design research proposals that seek to develop research through architectural design. Proposals will be evaluated on the strength of their research topic, their innovative approach to design as research, design quality and their potential for development as a public exhibition, lecture and publication.

Graduates of a professional Australian or New Zealand degree in architecture in the last ten years are invited to submit a proposal.

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Dates: Monday 30 September – Sunday 6 October
Location: Parkville campus
Coordinator: Dr Hao Wu & Mr Keith Mckinnell

If you're interested in learning more about real estate in Asia, you might want to consider enrolling into the intensive subject ABPL90318 Asian Real Estate Case Studies. The subject will create a multidisciplinary environment in which students are encouraged to review solutions to a whole range of planning, development, project delivery, and investment problems and to generate alternative options in the context of Asia’s key cities such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo.

Prerequisites: Admission into one of the MSD courses, plus completion of ABPL90026 Property Development or permission from the subject coordinator

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Date: Thursday 27 June - Wednesday 3 July
Time: 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Venue: 757 Swanston Street

Come and see the work of students involved in the subject 'Cities from Local to Global' led by Associate Professor Carolyn Whitzman. Student projects will be displayed in a poster exhibition at 757 Swanston Street from Thursday 27 June. 175 students in "Cities from Local to Global" undertook three "hands on" assignments in the City of Wyndham, looking at local, metropolitan and global planning issues. In the western fringe of Metropolitan Melbourne, Wyndham is the fastest growing municipality in Australia.

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