Description
A design-led and aspirational dialogue about future suburban transformations. The events simply ask, “what do we want our suburbs to become?”.Ideas, experiences and the form of Australia’s suburbs have changed markedly in responses to climate change and population growth. Covid19 has given us cause to re-think the suburbs again. The various lengths and intensities of lockdowns during the pandemic exposed deficiencies in contemporary suburban living, as well as unearthed new spatial potentials amplified by the ingenuity of suburban dwellers.
While many uncertainties persist around the ways we will live and work in future, the ongoing transformation of the suburbs is inevitable. Working with designers, urban historians, policy makers, developers and residents alike, "A New Suburban Ambition" will look backwards and forwards to interrogate issues of dwelling diversity and suburban built form quality in the context of other contemporary challenges, such as shifting work patterns, changing suburban industrial landscapes, ecological repair, infrastructure upgrades and circular economies and resources.
Presented by Monash's Lee-Anne Khor, Seamus O'Hanlon, Simone Sharpe and Lionel Frost.
| Period | 31 Mar 2021 → 5 Apr 2021 |
|---|---|
| Event title | A New Suburban Ambition : The past and future of the Australian suburb |
| Event type | Exhibition |
| Location | Melbourne, AustraliaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |