University of Melbourne – Living Pavilion, Vic

Installations and Happening explores the potential of small-scale events and temporary spatial interventions to reimagine public spaces. From street art, pop-up parks, temporary installations, guerrilla gardens and street performances, it examines a diversity of political tactics and place-making tools that designer-citizens use to activate and revitalise urban spaces. The subject will include a series of lectures with accompanying readings, workshops, site-specific research and experience-based tasks. Students will be exposed to a number of hands-on strategies for working across sites and communities to uncover the social, cultural and environmental conditions of place. This will provide inspiration for students to realise their own small-scale and temporary spatial interventions that foster dialogue, build social capital and address critical global-to-local issues. This semester, students will have the opportunity to create temporary installations for The Living Pavilion (1 May – 17 May 2019) at the University of Melbourne’s Parkville Campus. The Living Pavilion is a transdisciplinary project connecting Indigenous knowledge, ecological science, sustainable design and participatory arts. The artworks created by the students will include responding to the site and context of The Living Pavilion, particularly highlighting ecological themes of climate change and biodiversity.