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Welcome to Issue 11 of Habitat 2014
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Your Semester 2 enrolment
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Subject change deadlines
Continuing B Envs students should finalise their enrolment and class registration before the beginning of Semester 2 (Monday 28 July.) However, you will continue to be able to change your enrolment and classes online until the end of Week 2 (Friday 8 August.)
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Last date to enrol
Last date to enrol in standard Semester 2 subjects
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Friday 8 August
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Last date to withdraw
Last date to withdraw from standard Semester 2 subjects, take a leave of absence or withdraw from your course without incurring a 'withdrawn' grade and fee liability |
Census Date:
Sunday 31 August*
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*Please note, students are advised to finalise their enrolment by Friday 29 August.
First year subject information sessions
First year students deciding on their subjects for Semester 2 may like to attend Environments subject information sessions during O-Week. While the sessions are targeted to new B Envs students commencing at mid-year, existing B Envs students are also welcome to attend.
The following sessions will be held in the Harold White Theatre, 757 Swanston St on Thursday 24 July.
3.30pm - 4.00pm: Structural Environments
4.00pm - 4.30pm: Governing Environments
4.30pm - 5.00pm: Visualising Environments
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Mid-Year O-Week: Clubs & Societies Day
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Date: 12.00pm - 2.00pm, Friday 25 July
Venue: North Court, Union House
Would you join the Birdwatching Society? The Breakdance Club or the Heavy Metal Club? The Animal Protection Society, Oxfam Group, Anime and Manga Club, Melbourne University Shakespeare Company or Melbourne University Chinese Theatre Group? With 200 UMSU clubs active on campus, you are bound to find one that suits you.
While you're at Clubs & Societies Day, you can join activities, make new like-minded friends and grab some freebies.
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FREE PUBLIC LECTURE: Ethics of Geoengineering
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Date: 12.30pm - 1.30pm, Friday 1 August
Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre
RSVP: Register online
Professor Stephen M Gardiner is visiting from the University of Washington, and in this lecture he asks, 'If a climate emergency is possible, is everything permitted?' He will reflect on some ethically slippery arguments for geoengineering.
Prof Gardiner's research focuses on global environmental problems (especially climate change), future generations, and virtue ethics. He is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm: the Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change (Oxford, 2011), the coordinating co-editor of Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010), and the editor of Virtue Ethics: Old and New (Cornell, 2005).
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Competing Ideas: Public debate on the role and relevance of Architectural Design Competitions
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Date: 6.30pm - 7.30pm, Wednesday 30 July
Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre
RSVP: Register online
The Melbourne School of Design will present a panel discussion on the role and relevance of architectural design competitions.
Produced as a follow-on event to the Australian premier of the documentary The Competition, this public debate brings together a selection of architects, critics, and academics, to discuss the status of design competitions in Melbourne and within the context of Australia.
Given the immense resources expended on competitions, given the move away from truly “open” competitions, and given the lack of government policy to undertake design competitions for the majority of project commissions, do architectural design competitions remain relevant to architecture, architects and to society as a whole?
The panel of leading industry experts will be moderated by Professor Donald Bates.
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FRINGE FURNITURE 2014 Registrations Open
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Registration closes: Monday 21 July
Images due: Wednesday 6 August
Delivery of works: Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September
Registration fee: $90 ($70 for full time students)
Melbourne Fringe Festival presents Fringe Furniture in 2014, with artists responding to the theme ‘Living Traces’.
Registrations are open to all artists and designers, both emerging and established. A broad range of ‘furnishing’ types are encouraged to be submitted, including; furniture, lighting, home wares, wearable objects, decorative arts, permanent and ephemeral works.
The showcase recognises design excellence and innovation through a tailored awards program judged by a panel of industry experts, past winners and artist representatives. Last year’s winners received over $3000 worth of prizes made possible by the generous support of the industry and community.
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The Australian Innovation Challenge
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Entries close: Monday 11 August
Total prize pool: $65,000, including $5000 in a Young Innovators category open to students under the age of 21.
Presented by The Australian in association with Shell, The Australian Innovation Challenge aims to reward innovation and future thinking, and has helped drive some of the nation’s best ideas to commercialization or adoption.
Students are invited to share ideas which have the potential to make a difference to our lifestyles, environment, work or play. The award is open to both individuals and teams.
To enter, please submit a 300 word summary of the innovation, a CV and any other assets relevant to the innovation, such as images, videos or links to content.
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Academic Skills Winter Writing Festival
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Date: 9:30 am - 4:00 pm, 22 July 2014
Venue: Alan Gilbert building, various locations. For venue details, click 'More information' below.
Register: To enrol, log into SAS, find the sessions in the “Events” tab and click RSVP.
Melbourne’s grey winter days are a great opportunity to sharpen your writing skills for success in semester 2!
Come to Academic Skills’ Winter Writing Festival, an all-day event on Tuesday 22nd July. Attend writing workshops, get feedback on your writing, check out online writing resources or pick up some quick self-editing tips. Enrol in all sessions or choose those specific to your own writing needs.
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Open Day Video Competition
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Entries due: 9.00am 1 August 2014
Help future Melbourne students learn what university life is really like by opening up your daily lives to them. The University wants you to share videos that capture an aspect of a day in your life as a University of Melbourne student so that we can show as much of our students’ experiences as possible.
The best and most creative entries will be compiled into a promotion video for Open Day. The owners of the videos featured in our Open Day video will each win a University of Melbourne varsity jacket.
In addition, the first 200 people to submit a video will receive a complimentary crepe voucher to be used at Carte Crepes.
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The Competition
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Dates: Saturday 26 Jul 2014, 6.30pm (Opening Night).
Sunday 27 Jul 2014: 2.30pm, 4.30pm, 6.30pm.
Venue: ACMI Cinemas, Federation Square
Register: Book online
The Competition will be screened for the first time in Australia this July, thanks to MSD Alumni, Linus Gruszewski and James Carter who negotiated to bring the film down under.
The Competition is a film directed by Spanish Architect, Angel Borrego Cubero. It presents a raw account of leading architecture practices, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry and Dominique Perrault, involved in an international design competition for the National Museum of Andorra.
The film will be screened as part of the Open House Melbourne program, in partnership with Melbourne School of Design and ACMI Cinemas. A panel discussion will follow the Saturday night screening, giving the audience an opportunity to delve further into the concept of the architectural design competition and the film itself. The panel will feature Angel Borrego Cubero alonside local experts.
Bookings are essential.
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Global Mobility Survey
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Melbourne Global Mobility want to hear from University of Melbourne full degree students regarding the type of international mobility experiences you are seeking. The information gathered in this survey will help us determine the location of and type of student mobility programs that may be of interest to future University of Melbourne students.
Please complete the survey online. It will take approximately 15 minutes. We look forward to receiving your feedback!
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