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BOOK
Richard Black and Martyn Hook
Mobile Landscapes
RMIT University Press, 2006
Design investigations and research on the implications for towns on the Murray River of managed environmental flooding of the Murray Darling River system, with Wentworth as a primary case-study. This book features essays and project-based research along with RMIT Architecture projects exhibited at the 1st International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2003.

BOOK
Imaging Sustainability
Lewis, Helen and Ryan, Chris (Editors)
Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2006
Sustainability has become more than a topic of technology and performance, as its meaning continues to be understood in various social, political and cultural levels. This publication is a collection of critical essays by Australian and local contributors on the current condition of the relationship between sustainability, design and the built environment.

BOOK CHAPTERS
Crist, Graham, "Invisible Sustainablity" and "CH2: The Effect of the Image is the Real Effect"
in Imaging Sustainability, Helen Lewis and Chris Ryan (Editors)
Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2006.

RESEARCH PAPER
Crist, Graham (RMIT Architecture),
"The Green Aesthetic Object"
Radovic, Darko (Melbourne University),
"The Manners of Sustainable Architecture- on the Behaviour of CH2 in Urban Fabric of Melbourne"
in Nature and Aesthetics in the Sustainable City (pdf file)
Council House 2, Technical Paper
CH2, AusIndustry Research Papers, Melbourne City Council

Ryan, Chris
Digital Eco-Sense: Sustainability and ICT - a New Terrain for Innovation
Melbourne: RMIT Press/Lab.3000, 2004
Subjects: Sustainable development; information technology - technological innovations; communication - technological innovations; technological innovations - environmental aspects & economic aspects.
This book documents research-led Design Studios commissioned across a number of institutions and disciplines to investigate the themes above, involving 100 design students (industrial, architecture, interior, fashion) at three leading Universities in Australia (RMIT and Swinburne in Melbourne, and University of Technology, Sydney). These studios included:
"Digital Eco-Sense"
tutors: Chris Ryan and Malte Wagenfeld
RMIT Upperpool Design Studio, 2003
RMIT Architecture & Industrial Design Students
partners:
Digital EcoLab
a Lab.3000 project, 2003-2004
Director: Chris Ryan
Cross-institutional project funded by the Victorian Government through Lab.3000, design innovation research centre, hosted at RMIT.
related article:
Eco-Sense, Lab.3000, 2004

van Schaik, Leon
Ecocells: Landscapes and Masterplans by Hamzah & Yeang
London: Wiley-Academy, 2003
ISBN 0 470 85119 9
The ecocell is a vertical integrating device to bring landscape elements, daylight, rainwater, natural ventilation and sewage recycling vertically across all levels of the builtform. The concept is explained in two masterplan projects by Hamzah & Yeang (registered T. R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd.) the Amsterdam Center of Science & Technology and the West Kowloon Waterfront Development.

Affiliated Publications

Lab Report 04 - The New Design Nexus: ICT, changing demographics and sustainability
Lyndon Anderson and Simon Jackson (Editors)
Melbourne: Lab.3000, 2004

RMIT Centre for Design
sustainability research articles and reports

Lewis, Helen & Gertsakis, John et al (RMIT Centre for Design)
Design + Environment
Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing Limited, 2001
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