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Invitation to
Transported: architects for peace 2007 forum
Following the immense and enthusiastic interest of secondary school students to be involved in World Environment Day, Architects for Peace offers a hands-on opportunity for students to engage with sustainability and transport.
My name is Beatriz C. Maturana, I am the president of Architects for Peace (arch-peace) and part of the coordination team of Architects for Peace 2007 Forum called Transported. I write to invite your school’s engagement and your student’s participation in an engaging and stimulating workshop and forum about transport, sustainability and the future entitled Transported.
Transported is a two-days forum, divided between a student workshop (Friday Aug 31) and seminars (Saturday Sept 1). Transported will discuss the issue of collective modes of transportation in relation to climate change and responsible urban development. The purpose of this forum is to bring together academics and community perspectives for a dialogue that reveals the magnitude and ramifications that transport has in our environment and every day life.
This forum involves the participation of academics, transport lobbyists, politicians, and socio-physical exclusion experts. A main aspect of this forum will be the invitation of secondary school students from Melbourne’s outer suburbs, who will have the opportunity to participate in the forum and workshop.
Architects for Peace is working in a collaborative partnership with Unesco Observatory, RMIT Public Art and with the participation of Prof Nicholas Low, director of Gamut (Australasian Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport), Kenneth Davison (Senior economics Journalist with The Age newspaper), Mick Douglas, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design at RMIT) and Ralph Green on Universal Mobility to develop the workshop and seminar program.
The participation of secondary school students is an important aspect of our forum. To achieve this, Architects for Peace would like to invite teachers and their students to present projects on any topic related to public modes of transportation—for example, world environment day, transport in your city, its history, ecology, doing the maths of the cost to the environment, dissecting the terms (what do you understand sustainability in transport to mean?), art projects, or essays. The topics are as wide as the consequences that transport has in our daily lives. The idea is to present these projects on our website http://www.architectsforpeace.org/ and then to nominate students from the schools that submit work to participate in our workshop and attend the forum.
The workshop will be divided into a series of interesting topics and tasks and to do this we have engaged academics, PhD research students and industry specialist to develop a hands-on workshop in Melbourne CBD.
We anticipate that this experience will further assist students to broaden their understanding of transportation, sustainability and city. But more importantly, the notion sustainability is everyone's responsibility and that we all have something to contribute to further the awareness on this important issue.
Please find below the forum program. If you are interested in participation, please register your interest though the website (http://www.architectsforpeace.org/) or contact me directly at: beatriz@architectsforpeace.org
Looking forward to the participation of your school and students,
Yours sincerely,
Beatriz C. Maturana - president
architectsforpeace
Transported architects for peace 2007 forum
Program confirmation
Friday 31 August Day program
Secondary School Workshop
Workshop Venue : RMIT Public Art Building 50Orr Street Carlton
Transport and social justice
Workshop with Secondary School Students
A half-day workshop with nominated secondary school students from outer metro areas.Using a group of people who do not have mobility independence we will workshop the idea of a city where affordable, reliable and regular transport is the key to realising potential, connecting with society and building a convivial city. What would life be like and how might it change our view of sustainable living, the choices in what we do and how people relate. Students under 18 do not have a licence and in outer Metropolitan Melbourne the car is the only reliable independent mode of transport.
Topics so far:
· Transport and independence – how do you get around without your parents
· Transport and social connection – who do you see on public transport and what is society?
· Transport and environmental sustainability- the true cost of running a cars and some environmentally affordable alternatives
· How do you imagine your suburb to be?
Saturday 1 September Day program
Venue to be confirmed but will be in Melbourne CBD
Speakers
· Professor Nick Low: Director of Gamut (Australasian Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport).
· Kenneth Davidson: the Age Newspaper’s Senior Economic Journalist who provides regular analyse of the politics and economics of transport, sustainability and social justice.
· Mick Douglas: artist, senior lecturer at RMIT University and founder of Tramtactic.net and Cultural Transports Unit who undertakes collaborative,
cross-cultural and transportative art projects based on modes of transport. For the cultural festival of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games he collaborated with Pakistani vehicle decorators to make ‘W-11 Tram: an art of journeys’ - a project that transformed the experience of a journey by tram which recently completed a second season over last summer. Recent experimental projects include ‘Ride-on-Dinner’ - a participatory performance project involving host artists serving up a 3-course slow-food meal to a swarm of cyclists over the duration of evening cycle rides. A book documenting his ten-year collaborative project ‘tramjatra: imagining Melbourne and Kolkata by tramways’ was recently published in South Asia and Australia.
Presentation of secondary School student workshop (see above)
Saturday 1 September Evening Program: Ride-On-Dinner
Included in this program: Public art event by Tashidawa Eyles and her studio
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