Image: Megan Keene

Image: Megan Keene

WORKAROUND

MELBOURNE 2018 | BUNURONG & WURUNDJERI COUNTRIES

An online broadcast and a program of live events at the RMIT Design Hub that engages with a movement of women focused on advocacy and activism within an expanded field of architecture. Across fourteen daily episodes, selected practitioners presented the strategies and workarounds of their design practice. UDS co-founder Amy Learmonth produced Episode 10.

Collaborators: Marisa Georgiou, Amanda Haworth, Aleea Monsour, Megan Keene, Fiona McAlpine, Christopher Inwood, Cate Meehan, Natalie Osborne

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SERIOUS PLAY

The Episode examined the notion of Serious Play as an activist tool for urban social struggles. It had three parts:

  1. Apple Invasion - a fruity, flash-mob protest drawing attention to the proposed Apple headquarters in Federation Square, Melbourne

  2. City Making, City Baking - a TV gameshow in which contestants tossed around the ingredients for their ideal city and put development processes under the grill.

  3. Tasty Discussion - a facilitated conversation exploring and contextualising Parts 1 and 2, and the notion of ‘serious play’ more generally, in relation to current urban social movements in Brisbane and Melbourne.