![]() Students will then respond with a larger architectural proposition in Maddern Square, a spatial by-product of retail backdoors, car parking, pigeons, and an unsuccessful urban renewal. Initial projects will be small scale esquisses on sidewalks, this being the interface between public, private, and commercial zones. These will inform an series of site-specific interventions. The semester’s body of work will include observing, documenting, and categorising street life. The agenda is to create innovative public spaces which draw upon social, cultural, and economic landscapes. Students will observe street life and the public sphere and investigate the way shifts in local populations over the past few decades have altered the urban fabric of Footscray. The studio is interested in how ‘identity’ manifests in informal, temporary, and interstitial spaces. Concurrently it will critique the process of urban sanitisation and investigate patterns around gentrification and adaptation. Looking at the suburb of Footscray, the studio will examine its social context, its cultural narrative, the recent rapid development and its shifting demographics. WESTSIDE STORY interrogates the value we place onto identity, and the relationship between changing demographics and the built environment. R:ADAR - Review: Art, Design and Architecture Research ![]() Residencies expression of interest application form
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