EXHIBITION | ideas, art and curation
NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA’S MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK 2020
‘THE CITY SHAPED: MELBOURNE’
Exhibited at: Brunswick Street Gallery
The City Shaped: Melbourne, explores the idea of the city as a machine for cultural production through a series of images and sculptural objects. This exploration examines the relationship between human activity and the spaces of the city: the way in which human activity shapes the form of the city and, in turn, is shaped by it. Taking Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid as a testing ground, an analysis of each city block reveals individual spatio-cultural characteristics, which are reinterpreted in the form of sculptural objects.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA’S MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK 2019
‘MELBOURNE: MEGACITY?’
Exhibited at:
Budd Street Gallery
A megacity is defined as city with 10 million inhabitants or more. The population of Melbourne is projected double over the next 40 years, from 5 million to 10 million people. This growth in population will be accompanied by a major growth in the urban fabric of Melbourne, and those in the design industries will play a central role in determining the type of city Melbourne will become. This exhibition presents ideas and propositions for Melbourne’s future as a megacity from an array of local designers, architects, urban planners and thinkers.
‘Other Spaces’
Virtual Exhibition
The architecture theorist Ignasi de Solà-Morales describes the concept of ‘terrain vague’ as, ‘external places, strange places left outside the city’s effective circuits and productive structures’, these spaces include, ‘industrial areas, railway stations, ports, unsafe residential neighborhoods, and contaminated places...where the city is no longer.’
Other Spaces is a virtual exhibition which explores the potential of terrain vague – or urban wastelands - within our cities. This exhibition will gather ideas, proposals, and critiques which look specifically at temporary interventions to activate or make use of urban wastelands. The exhibition intends to question the life cycle and future of our urban environments, prompting further discussion within the discourse.
The exhibition will look to curate a sample of proposals, built and hypothetical, that address this issue on both a local and international scale. This exhibition will give designers, architects, artists, urban planners and thinkers a forum to present ideas and propositions for the future of urban wastelands.
The virtual exhibition will be live for the entire duration of Melbourne Design Week, March 17th-27th, 2022.
This event is part of Melbourne Design Week 2022, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria.
