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Alessi MUTANTS
Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture and Reiner Zettl, die Angewandte
24 June 2010 - 24 July 2010
die Angewandte, Institut für Architektur, Vienna
http://www.urbanstrategies.at/

The Alessi MUTANTS program is a 4-week intensive postgraduate course in emergent digital directions within object and architectural design. The course aims at investigating and exploring the systems, processes, and techniques of Alessi design in the context of studio, research, and practice. The purpose is to develop scaleable geometries that will assist in the development of objects and architectural forms.

The students will explore design mutations with a single project, probing materials and production techniques of Alessi design. The workshop and the accompaning seminars will focus on the challenges of developing and expanding the domain of Alessi object design in the context of emerging technologies in the design and production of objects and architecture.

Located in Vienna, Alessi MUTANTS will be in the context of the Architecture Department at the University of Applied Arts, where design studios by Wolf Prix, Zaha Hadid, and Greg Lynn set the standard, enabling the students to participate in a unique teaching and learning environment.

The final review of student projects will be located at the Alessi Headquarters in Omegna, Italy taking advantage of the location and presence of Alberto Alessi, Gloria Barcellini and Alessi Projects Engineer Danilo Alliata. Students will also have an unprecedented opportunity to tour the Alessi dream factory and the Alessi Museum.

Alessi MUTANTS Poster pdf

RMIT ARCHITECTURE STAFF AND STUDENTS INVITED TO EXHIBIT IN THE AUSTRIAN PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE EXHIBITION
Alessi MUTANTS
The work of the RMIT students participating in the Alessi MUTANTS workshop at die Angewandte will be exhibited in the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2010

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP + DESIGN STUDIO
Post-Waterfront City: The planning and design of next generation living
WAW2009: World Architecture Workshop
Lianyungang, China
November, 2009.

Lianyungang, Post Waterfront City - Population 30,000,000
The planning & design of next generation living
WAW2009: World Architecture Workshop

Since 2002 the World Architecture Workshop has undertaken interrogation through design in cities around the world. In 2009 the workshop turned its attention to the urbanism of population bursts in the context of water based city expansion in Lianyungang, China. Seven groups each obtaining students from Australia, China, France, and Japan produced projects which address global worming, complexity in the instant city, diversification of traffic systems and the merging of salt and fresh water systems and urban design strategies for the city.

Given China's current rate of urbanisation the projects go on to propose engagement with primary industries as employment generators for recently re-located populations from rural areas. Massive population increase raises questions of identity for a city. The projects thus treat the histories of the city as building blocks for designing new identities for Lianyungang to guide it through the shifts, growth and iterations of change that its extraordinary ambition will bring.

Participating Universities:
Miyagi University Japan
Nanjing Forestry University, China
RMIT Architecture, Australia
Sanjiang University, China
Tohoku Institute of Technology, Japan
Tohoku University, Japan
l'Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Montpellier, France

RMIT Faculty
Johan van Schaik, Lecturer RMIT Architecture, Director: Minifie Nixon Architects
Paul Minifie, Associate Professor RMIT Architecture, Director: Minifie Nixon Architects
Gretchen Wilkins, Senior Lecturer RMIT Architecture
Stuart Harrison, Senior Lecturer RMIT Architecture, Director: Harrison and White

RMIT Students
Marco Lavit Nicora, Hannah Rowe, Mari Poll Lien, Chris Gilbert, Sylvio Eckermann, Chen Liu, Selene Wong, Aurelia Gachet, Chris Haddad, Jacqueline O'Brien, Nicholas Rossetti

RMIT ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION OPENING
Lianyungang, Post Waterfront City - Population 30,000,000
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Foyer Gallery, Level 11, RMIT Building 8, 360 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Refreshments provided.

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EXTREMES STUDIO WORKSHOPS
RMIT Architecture, Melbourne / Die Angewandte, Vienna
November 08 - January 09
Studio Leaders:
Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Professor of Design
Wolfgang Prix, Studio Prix, University of Applied arts, Vienna
Practice Director: Coop Himmelblau

PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS:
RMIT Architecture, Melbourne Australia
die Angewandte, University of Applied Art, Vienna, Austria

Studio Workshop Location: Günther Domenigs Steinhaus, Steindorf - Carinthia, Austria.
Facebook photos - Extremes Studio workshop

Two design studios are being run in parallel simultaneously at RMIT and die Angewandte by Tom Kovac and Wolfgang Prix respectively, with Melbourne and Viennese students and staff communicating via Skype and Quicklinks. Tom Kovac and Wolfgang Prix led a workshop with die Angewandte students, held in Günther Domenigs Steinhaus, Steindorf, Carinthia, Austria in November 2008. The RMIT Architecture studio group of students are travelling across to Vienna for a joint 10 day workshop in January, 2009, followed by a workshop review and exhibition at DESSA Gallery, City Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP + DESIGN STUDIO
Post-Oil Cities: International Architecture Workshop 7,
Institut d’Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya (IAAC),
Barcelona, 2008
RMIT Architecture Advanced Architecture Upperpool Design Studio, Semester 2, 2008
Workshop hosts: Institut d’Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya
Workshop website: www.iaac.net
Design workshop collaborations will be undertaken with students and faculty from RMIT Architecture, Melbourne, France, Japan and Spain.

RMIT Architecture Workshop Leaders: Paul Minifie, Jan van Schaik, Gretchen Wilkins, RMIT Architecture
with Ignasi Perez Arnal; Ricard Fayos; Josep Anton Acebillo; Vincente Guallart; Vincens Arrablo; Borja Ferrater; Carlos Ferrater; Benedetta Tagliabue; Manuel Castells; Miguel Barcelo; Manuel Sangenis; Josep Maria Rosello; Alica Framis; Manuel Bailo; Lluis Sabadell; Belinda Tato; Jospe Lluis Mateo; Edward Bru; Hitoshi Abe

PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS:
RMIT Architecture, Melbourne Australia
Institut d’Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya (IaaC), Barcelona, Spain
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM), Montpellier, France
Migayi University, Sendai, Japan
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Tohoku University of Technology, Sendai, Japan
Universtitat Internacional de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain

OCEAN workshop
with Michael U. Hensel and Defne Sunguroglu
Performance-oriented Design
Potential and Paradigm for a re-orientation of Architecture
Workshop participants: RMIT Architecture Upperpool students

Day 01|Tuesday April 1, 2008
Session 01 10am: Premises and Potentials of Performance-oriented Design
Session 02 3pm: Material Systems and Performative Capacities

Day 02|Wednesday April 2, 2008
Session 03 10am: Research Example: Form-active Tension Systems
Session 04 3pm: A Biological Paradigm for Architectural Design

Location: RMIT University Melbourne, Building 45, student workshop spaces

OCEAN’s approach to performance-oriented design is set within a biological paradigm. Through specific basic research and research by design OCEAN seeks for potentials that can serves to formulate and develop this approach to architectural design. The aim is to locate the human being in the centre of the design effort and to provide a richly differentiated and performative human environment. Ecology is the study of the relationship of organisms and their environment, a definition that suits the discipline of architecture surprisingly well. Thus the central task of architecture is to provide opportunities for habitation through material and energetic interventions in the physical environment. A central question is how material systems and their capacity to modulate the human environment can inform different kinds of spatial organisation coupled with an instrumental set of emerging digital technologies.

DESIGN STUDIO + INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
Borderlands: International Architecture Workshop 6
Detroit, Michigan USA, 2007
Paul Minifie & Jan van Schaik - RMIT Architecture
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio Students
with Architecture Academics and Students from:
University of Michigan College of Architecture, Detroit, Michigan, USA (hosts)
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM), Montpellier, France
Migayi University, Sendai, Japan
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Tohoku University of Technology, Sendai, Japan
Universtitat Internacional de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain

Rapt! Laboratory for Social Space Melbourne
Research Workshop + Exhibition + Lectures Series
Coordinators:
Atelier Bow Wow (Japan)
Taira Nishizawa (Japan)
with:
Marika Neustupny, RMIT Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio (Melbourne)
Mauro Baracco, RMIT Architecture, Baracco Wright (Melbourne)
Workshop Participants:
RMIT Architecture students
Tsukamoto Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITech) Architecture students
Tsukuba University Architecture students
Rapt! Events Location:
The Greenhouse
Atelier Bow-Wow urban installation
City Square, Swanston Street, Melbourne CBD
25th Aug-Sat 2nd Sept, 2006
(related project: By Product Tokyo, 1999, 2003)

Nano City: International Architecture Workshop 5
Montpellier France, 2006
workshop participants:
Paul Minifie & Jan van Schaik - RMIT Architecture
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio Students
with
N+B Architects, Montpellier, France
L’Ecole d’architecture longuedoc Rousillon Montpellier, France
Tohoku University Sendai, Japan
Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Sedai, Japan
University of Michigan, USA
Facultad de Arquitectura, Eastern Repùblica LED Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay

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