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Welcome to Issue 14 of Habitat 2013

Competition: Celebrating the Bachelor of Environments

Competition deadline: 26 November 2013
Prize value: Up to $1000

Have you got a great idea for a project or activity to engage your fellow Bachelor of Environments students?

Funding is available for projects that celebrate the Bachelor of Environments: the Course, the Campus and the Cohort.

Form a multidisciplinary team, develop a project or activity which celebrates our unique Bachelor of Environments Degree and be a winner. It couldn't be easier - after all, who knows the course and its students better than you!

Funding up to $1,000 is available for projects that fulfil the competition criteria. Your project should be something that appeals to students, such as a relevant conference or activity on campus, a support network, an integration program or something that taps into the skills and expertise you gain as a BEnvs student.

For more information including how to apply, submission requirements and selection criteria, click below.

Information for completing students

Check the status of your course
Are you on track to complete your Bachelor of Environments at the end of Semester 2? If you are completing this semester, the status of your B Envs Study Plan should be ‘Potentially Complete’. If you believe you are completing your course but the status of your course is not ‘Potentially Complete’, please contact the Environments and Design Student Centre as soon as possible.

Explore your options
Do you have questions about the options available to you once you complete your Bachelor of Environments? Now is the time to research and reflect on your options. Contact Graduate Schools to find out about graduate courses, entry requirements and application processes.

Explore other graduate courses through Course Search.

Career Advice
University of Melbourne Careers Consultants can meet with you to discuss career goals and come up with ideas, strategies and resources to assist you in working towards these goals. 30 minute appointments can be booked via Careers Online.

757 Swanston St: Weekend Building Maintenance

Please be aware that works will be taking place on level one of 757 Swanston St this weekend which will affect any building users who are onsite at this time.

What’s happening
Maintenance will be taking place to the hot water coil located directly outside the lifts on level one of 757 Swanston St from approximately 7:00am to 1:00pm this Saturday October 5.

What this means
  • There will be no access to level one during this time
  • There will be no hot water in the building during this time
  • There may be periods of no water in the building during this time
  • Please contact ABP Facilities with any queries or concerns.

    Individual tutorials with Academic Skills

    Academic Skills' Individual Tutorials (or 'itutes') are in high demand at the end of semester. If you would like a session with an Academic Skills adviser to get feedback on an assignment draft, discuss exam preparation strategies or talk about developing your study skills, book well in advance.

    Bookings can be made through the Student Advising System. Try to get an appointment in the Environments and Design Student Centre but if you can't find anything, you can book at any other venue (note that some are off campus!).

    BEnvs students can also make use of the Academic Writing Drop-ins in the Arts and Music Student Centre (Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 12-2pm). No bookings required!

    Model Making Spaces: Labelling Cards Now Available

    When using model making spaces it’s important that you remember to always:

    • Label your work
    • Keep everything off the floor

    ABP labelling cards for your models and materials are now available! Collect yours today from model making spaces at 757 Swanston St, the MSD Studio Space at Lincoln Square South, or the Environments and Design Student Centre.

    Any unlabelled materials will be thrown out so to keep your stuff safe - be a model citizen and label your work.

    ABP Agenda: John Thackara

    Date: Monday 7 October
    Time: 7.00pm
    Venue: Open Stage, 757 Swanston Street
    RSVP: Book online

    ALIVE! When Social Innovation Meets Living Systems

    Over the ages we've invested huge resources to keep cities and nature separate; what would it mean if that were about to change?

    John Thackara uses his personal encounter with energy angels, wind wizards, watershed stewards, urban farmers and more to start a conversation. What are the opportunities for your city/region? What approaches work best in amplifying change?

    John Thackara is a writer, advisor and event producer.

    Dean's Lecture Series: João Nunes

    DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES: Time and Landscape
    Date: Tuesday 8 October
    Time: 7.00pm
    Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre
    RSVP: Book online

    As part of the 2013 Dean's Lecture Series presented by Professor Tom Kvan, Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, Portuguese Landscape Architect, João Nunes will give a free public lecture entitled, Time and Landscape.



    EXHIBITION: Landscape Projects Between Change and Conservation
    Date: Monday 7 - Friday 11 October
    Venue: Wunderlich Gallery, 757 Swanston St

    An exhibition of the work of Proap will compliment this lecture.

    The concepts behind landscape architecture have changed in the last few decades and with it the attitudes of people towards the world and its transformation.

    Proap is a studio that was born precisely at the inception of a changing perspective towards landscape design.

    Melbourne University Planning Student Society (MUPSS): Planning the Just City

    Date: Monday 21 October
    Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
    Venue: YHM Room, Level 1, Sydney Myer Asia Centre
    RSVP:​ Book online
    Cost: $5

    Interested in how Melbourne can become a fairer, more equitable city? The Melbourne University Planning Student Society (MUPSS) is hosting a panel discussion featuring renowned planning theorist Susan Fainstein, University of Melbourne's Kate Shaw and leading practitioners to talk social justice, the city, and the future plan for Melbourne.

    Additional panellists include Roz Hansen (advisor on the Melbourne Planning Strategy), David Waldren (National Executive Design Manager, Grocon), Lucinda Hartley (CEO, CoDesign Studio) and Jane Monk (Director of State Planning Services at DPCD).

    Light finger food and drinks will be provided. This event is open to students outside of the University of Melbourne.

    If you have any questions about the event, or if you wish to become a MUPSS member, please email MUPSS.

    Urban Utopias and New Construction: Building a Just City Today

    A free public lecture delivered by Norman Fainstein.

    Date: Tuesday 22 October
    Time: 1.00pm
    Venue: The Open Stage, 757 Swanston Street

    Norman Fainstein argues that it is time to re-apply philosophical ideas about justice to the environment we are building today. Empirical discussions of Amsterdam and Singapore show that the values of equity, diversity and democracy can be approached in real cities, and that they are worthy of our efforts as planners and policy makers.

    Norman Fainstein is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Urban Studies and Professor Emeritus of Connecticut College.

    ABP Event: Creating a More Just City

    A free public lecture delivered by Susan Fainstein, author of The Just City.

    Date:
    Thursday 24 October
    Time: 7.00pm
    Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre
    RSVP: Book online

    What are the possibilities for creating a more just city under conditions of global capitalism and the triumph of neo-liberal ideology? Using the criteria of diversity, democracy, and equity, one can evaluate existing examples of urban redevelopment and make an argument concerning the leeway for greater justice at the local level and the types of policies that would further this goal. Wide variation of policy in cities of world within capitalist political economy shows the potential for creative state role. Changing the discourse of planning and policy making from competitiveness to justice in itself would contribute to progressive change.

    In this free public lecture Susan Fainstein will discuss these fundamental issues around planning and policy with a more just city in sight.