Final weeks of Occupied at RMIT Design Hub
“If the future city is already around us: how will we occupy it?” In the dramatic spaces of RMIT Design Hub, Occupied showcases proposals for housing a rapidly growing urban population. Featuring installations, performances, models, drawings and films, Occupied anticipates the critical design approaches, ideas and strategies of the imminent future. Occupied brings together 23 local and international practitioners.
Don’t miss these free programs during the final weeks of Occupied.
Thursday 15 September: 1-3pm
Never Discuss Politics at the Table
Project Room 1
Join the conversation with the final marathon lunch-time discussion with Leandro Cappetto of TOMA architects (Chile) around the urban issues of our time: affordable housing, gentrification, urban memory, community resistance and contamination of urban natural resources.
Friday 16 September: 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Lunch-time floor talk
Project Room 1
Join curators Grace Mortlock, David Neustein and Fleur Watson with local exhibitors and guests to discuss the ideas, themes and works within Occupied.
Saturday 24 September: 3.30 – 5pm
Occupied 2016
Project Room 1 and 3
Final performance by dancer and choreographer Atlanta Eke, followed by celebratory drinks in the Design Hub courtyard.
Occupied 2016, imagines that architects from 2050 have travelled back in time via the digital universe. In search of alternative possibilities for the post-capitalist future, the architects share their part-utopian, part-dystopian tales of the 2050 to come.
Selected Australian works showcased within Occupied include:
Offset House (2015) by OtherOthers
The most suburbanised of all nations, Australia has the world’s largest average dwelling size and a related undersupply of appropriate, affordable housing. Offset House aims to address this shortfall by re-appropriating the suburban ‘McMansion’, stripping away its brick veneer and inserting a smaller dwelling – or dwellings – within the exposed stud frame.
Supershared (2016) by Jacqui Alexander and SIBLING Architecture
Supershared is a loft-like space within Occupied, open for RMIT students to book and occupy throughout the exhibition. Visitors are also invited to spend time in Supershared’s public reading room with reflections on the sharing economy.
Owner Occupy: Terra Nullius Ad Infinitum (2016) by MAPA
(Moline Axelsen: Public Art / Participatory Architecture)
Owner Occupy: Terra Nullius Ad Infinitum questions the fiction of land ownership in Australia and proposes an alternative fiction to take its place. The premise of the dwelling gathering – a mobile system of flexible dwelling machines – is that whoever occupies them owns the space they define, but only for as long as they occupy it.
Future Happiness (2016) by MAP (Callum Morton, Nic Agius, Andre Bonnice) and Toby Reed
Future Happiness is a film and print installation that posits an alternate version of Melbourne. Past, present and future visions have been spliced and shuffled in ever mutating combinations and where the Design Hub itself has been re-imagined as a neon-lit pachinko arcade.
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