3553 is hosting our first fundraiser - a silent auction featuring an array of artworks generously donated by local artists and designers.
Opening Event:
Friday 1st August 2025
6pm - 9pm
35-53 Emma St, Collingwood
Music - @shaybakar
Since opening our space 6 months ago, 3553’s public program has featured the work of over 100 contributors and welcomed more than 1,500 attendees. To date, all of this has been achieved without any external funding.
In order to keep 3553 open, accessible, and active into the next year, we are hosting a silent auction, featuring a range of donated works from local creatives. All money raised will support the continuation of our work by funding minor capital improvements and enabling the commissioning and production of new works — all while ensuring that 3553 remains free and accessible to all. The auction will be online for a week, although the work will only be available for viewing at the event on Friday 1st August.
TP-03: BUILT ENVIRONMENT Published by @thresholdprojects and co-curated with @___office , this new publication launches alongside the exhibition BUILT ENVIRONMENT.
Featuring work by Douglas Crisp, Rory Maley, Jordan Halsall, Exterior Monologue, Second Place, SIMULAA, Architect Brew Koch, Collective Territories, Mark Romei, and Material Fields.
📖 Join us tonight for the official book launch at the opening of BUILT ENVIRONMENT 📍 @threefivefivethree , Collingwood 🕕 From 6PM
The publication will be available onsite tonight and throughout the weekend. We look forward to seeing you there.
{ANNOUNCING THE 2024 AWARDS JURY MEMBERS}
Led by Flynn Hart as Jury Chair, AILA Victoria is delighted to announce the 2024 Awards Jury members; Alexandra Lee, Sulochi Walisinghe, Elly Russell, Brendon Burke, Tim Hart, Bridget Keane, and Alix Lung as Jury Observer.
We’re pleased to be working with Flynn and our other Jurors during the 2024 Awards season and we thank them for their time and contribution. Stay tuned to find out more about our Jurors.
{REMINDERS}
Awards entries close Wednesday 13 March at 11.59pm AEDT. Follow the link in our bio or visit .au/awards to start your entry today!
Consider if your Project Entry is also suitable for opting-in to the AILA Vic Cross Category Awards: Regional Achievement, ShadeSmart and Climate Positive Design.
Need more information about how to enter? A link to download the 2024 Entry Guide is also included in our bio.
Have you nominated an AILA Future Leader yet? Nominations for the Future Leader Awards also close on Wednesday 13 March at 11.59pm AEDT. For more information and to nominate, head to link in bio or visit .au/news
Have any questions about the Awards Program? Please email the friendly AILA Vic Team at [email protected]
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Very excited to be included in this collection of works by @rosalea_monacella and @materialfields and to share a chapter on pedagogy of #EcologicalAttunement from past few years @cmusoa
included works by__
students: by Gil Jang, Adam Kor, Timothy Khalifa, Ryu Kondrup, Brandon Darreff, Nicole Lee-Park, Elizabeth Levy, Kelli Minares, Kyle Wing, Cheng Zhou, Bingjie Sheng
co-instructors: Eddy Man Kim, Emek Erdolu, Marantha Dawkins, Matt Huber, Gretchen Craig, Nina Chase with workshops by Marco Polletto and Rhett Russo
Great to have a chapter in this book along side so many fantastic colleagues and collaborators abroad. Congratulations Eds. Bridget & Rosalea @materialfields@rosalea_monacella@routledgearchitecture@utslandscape@utsarchitecture@landskiplab #studioecologies #toomanytotag
#Repost @rosalea_monacella
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With a hard copy in hand, I’m happy to announce that Designing Landscape Architectural Education: Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable Futures is out in the world.
‘ For the most part, this book was written during the first year of the global coronavirus pandemic. A multitude of stories, insights, analyses and concerns have attached themselves to our collective experience of the pandemic. One striking and persistent effect of the pandemic has been to evidence drastic systemic inequities across the globe – not least some of the very inequities that are frontline effects of the climate crisis. We now have a clear view of those who are the most vulnerable, and that view brings into more direct light the global, collective, cross-disciplinary pursuit required to address the climate crisis.’
‘The reconstruction of landscape architectural design studio teaching is a project in the making. There is a long way to go. We must move quickly. The climate crisis must be met by an ethical momentum that impels academics to reconsider how we educate landscape architects, specifically through the pedagogical framework of the design studio and its delivery. This transformation must involve profound reconfiguration of, and innovation in, discrete knowledge systems within the design studio curriculum, including the design project course’s associated techniques, approach and nature. This pursuit challenges the design studio instructor to consider how the “designer” and the “design project” generate ideas for alternative and indeterminable futures through applying diversified design literacy.”’
/Designing-Landscape-Architectural-Education-Studio-Ecologies-for-Unpredictable/Monacella-Keane/p/book/9780367703653
With a hard copy in hand, I’m happy to announce that Designing Landscape Architectural Education: Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable Futures is out in the world.
‘ For the most part, this book was written during the first year of the global coronavirus pandemic. A multitude of stories, insights, analyses and concerns have attached themselves to our collective experience of the pandemic. One striking and persistent effect of the pandemic has been to evidence drastic systemic inequities across the globe – not least some of the very inequities that are frontline effects of the climate crisis. We now have a clear view of those who are the most vulnerable, and that view brings into more direct light the global, collective, cross-disciplinary pursuit required to address the climate crisis.’
‘The reconstruction of landscape architectural design studio teaching is a project in the making. There is a long way to go. We must move quickly. The climate crisis must be met by an ethical momentum that impels academics to reconsider how we educate landscape architects, specifically through the pedagogical framework of the design studio and its delivery. This transformation must involve profound reconfiguration of, and innovation in, discrete knowledge systems within the design studio curriculum, including the design project course’s associated techniques, approach and nature. This pursuit challenges the design studio instructor to consider how the “designer” and the “design project” generate ideas for alternative and indeterminable futures through applying diversified design literacy.”’
/Designing-Landscape-Architectural-Education-Studio-Ecologies-for-Unpredictable/Monacella-Keane/p/book/9780367703653
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~ Landscape spectacle: Instagram Vs Reality ~
Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for a spectacle of an event! For those who missed out, here is a sneak peak into the thought provoking presentations from @danieljanmartin and @materialfields
Fig 1. 📷 Harry Cunningham - Foreground
Fig 3. 📷 Lindsay G Cumming - State Library of Victoria
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~LANDSCAPE SPECTACLE: INSTAGRAM VS REALITY ~
Introducing our second guest speaker, Bridget Keane!
Bridget is a lecturer in the RMIT Landscape Architecture program and has completed a PhD which was concerned with Landscape as a dynamic material system and considers ways to generate dynamic modes of analysis and production of landscape. Her projects are developed through the direct engagement with material production, processes and site logics.
Register for next weeks event to hear Bridget apply her research and landscape knowledge to the conversation of ‘Instagram Vs reality’.
Link in our bio.
#spectacleandcollapse #instagramvsreality #landscape #architecture #design #landscapearchitecture #creative #melbourne #youngdesigners #architect #designstudents #graduates #youngcreative #aila #ailavictoria #ailafresh
Wanting words: Language and landscape
'Words are powerful. If we don’t have the language to describe our relationship with the natural world and our uniquely Australian landscape features, ecologies and systems, can we successfully design for them?'
Jess Stewart is one of the course leaders in the MLA Design Research Seminar stream curated by Dr Bridget Keane. Jess writes about Language and Landscape which she has explored with students in her seminar over the last two years in the August issue of Landscape Architecture Australia.
The seminar explored the importance of a complex, site specific and distinct landscape lexicon in advocating for and enabling the inclusion of landscape values in design and describing distinctive landscape qualities.
Image: Grasslands sway in the fading dusk light at Bungarribee Park by JMD Design in Western Sydney. Photographed by Simon Wood @simonwoodphotography
~ Landscape spectacle: Instagram Vs Reality ~
An Instagram worthy St Kilda Foreshore Vs what it looked like on Boxing Day 2017.
Pull together your own Instagram Vs reality landscape images and share them with us! Don’t forget to tag @vfresh_aila and #spectacleandcollapse
Register for the associated event through the link in our bio!
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