 Screening on the 24th July, at 13:30, Shorts Session 4, at Cinema Nova. (https://www.mdff.org.au/films/living-structures-the-architecture-for-life)
A documentary that will challenge your current worldview on design, architecture, and our human-nature relationship. In this film Dr Phillip B. Roös, Associate Professor in Architecture and Director of the Live+Smart Research Lab, ask the critical question: “How can our global society change from its self-centric economic driven worldview to one that create built environments that put nature first?” https://www.livingstructuresfilm.com
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The exhibition ‘The Unfolding’ and book launch - was held from Thursday 17th March 2022 – Sunday 3rd April 2022. Works consists of drawings, paintings, and large paper scrolls telling stories of the landscape in abstract representations, epitomising the inherent living structures that are visible and non-visible elements of nature’s designs. Venue: The Papermill Gallery, 100 Lower Paper Mills Rd, Fyansford, VIC, 3218 (Papermill Gallery). What an incredible evening! Discussions, debates, and realisations of how important it is to put our Planet Earth first. We need a new worldview, a worldview that puts nature first. For more information on the documentary film please visit : https://www.livingstructuresfilm.com  Watch the Trailer of Living Structures - The Architecture for Life. This documentary film features Dr Phillip B. Roös in a thought-provoking narrative questioning the current state of our built environment, challenging the status quo to consider how we need to include the structures of nature to create places of belonging. Please follow @livingstrcuturesfilm to be notified of new screenings in 2022 of the film.  On the 19 March 2022, the documentary film - Living Structures - will be premiered at the Geelong Design Week, Costa Hall, Deakin University, Geelong. This documentary film provides a thought-provoking narrative questioning the current state of our built environment, challenging the status quo to consider how we need to include the structures of Nature to create places of belonging. Featuring, created and written by Dr Phillip B. Roös, he proposes finding solutions for our current planetary crisis in the natural order of Nature.
For further information see: https://www.livingstructuresfilm.com https://livesmartlab.deakin.edu.au/living-structures-architecture-for-life/ The exhibition: 'The Unfolding' by Dr Phillip B. Roös consists of various artworks, including drawings, paintings, and large paper scrolls telling stories of the landscape in abstract representations, epitomising the inherent living structures that are visible and non-visible elements of nature’s designs. These works are featured in the documentary film 'Living Structures: The Architecture for Life'. Come and explore within the paintings and drawings hidden narratives where through the process of unfolding nature reveals to us beauty. However, beauty is not only what we see, but also the inherent processes and morphological sequences of creation that makes the whole, which results in the feeling of belonging. Dates: Thursday 17th March 2022 – Sunday 27th March 2022 Exhibition Times: Wednesday – Sunday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm (Closed Monday & Tuesday) Venue: The Papermill Gallery, 100 Lower Paper Mills Rd, Fyansford, VIC, 3218 (Papermill Gallery Website) Registration Link: To Be Confirmed Soon   The Live+Smart Research Laboratory at the School of Architecture & Built Environment, Deakin University invites you to join this free online masterclass. The event includes a public lecture by Associate Professor Dr Phillip B. Roös, followed by keynote presentations and a panel discussion including Jefa Greenaway (Greenaway Architects), Nick Griffin (McGregor Coxall) and Eduard Ross (Grimshaw). Presentations and panel discussions include how biophilic design can be applied to community facilities at an early stage of the planning and design process. The case study of the new Hobsons Bay Wetland Centre will be used as an exemplar of integral design and planning. ‘Biophilia and Deep Connections to Place’ will review Indigenous Design, Landscape Design and Architectural Design that supports our innate affiliation to the natural world and the land. Moderated by Deakin Scholar Lana Van Galen, the panel discussions highlight how co-design between the Hobsons Bay City Council, the Hobsons Bay Wetland Centre Committee and key stakeholders from the initiation stage of the project can result in a ‘Design that Matters’. Date: Thursday, 9th December 2021 Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM AEDT . Register here: Eventbrite Registration  An INHAF Habitat Forum Webinar Series – Rethinking Cities
In the last few years, surprising new developments in neuroscience, environmental psychology, biology, mathematics, and other fields have begun to challenge designers to think differently about their role, particularly as we seek to transition to a world of healthier and more resilient environments. Science reveals the essential geometrical and sensorial qualities that create spaces promoting healing and life. Diagnostic tools such as eye-tracking and Visual Simulation Software also show that many pieces of the built environment are either invisible to the unconscious, or they create anxiety. Leading researchers and authors will discuss many of these findings, and their sometimes provocative implications. In this webinar Dr Phillip Roös, Associate Professor and Director of the Live+Smart Research Laboratory, will discuss the urgent need for a radical intervention in our design and planning discourse by adopting a new pattern language that is embedded in the regenerative-adaptive processes of Nature. Date: Thursday, 11 Nov, 6:30-8:30pm (IST) / 8:00-10:00am (ET) / Friday, 12 Nov, 12:00-2:30am (AEDT) Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3CSJY26  An increasing number of building professionals now are of the view that 20 - 21st century planning, design and construction of the built environment has been unimaginably bad, reckless, and unacceptable; as the way we have built our cities has resulted in a degeneration of the earth's natural systems, now eventuating in unprecedented impacts of a changing climate, and we have pushed beyond the planetary boundaries that can sustain life.
The current status quo is to apply the concept of ‘sustainability’ to the discourse of our actions in planning, design, development, manufacturing, and construction, even agriculture and forestry. However, sustainability is not good enough, as to ‘sustain’ is still part of a degenerating system – we need to go beyond sustainability to move from a degenerative system to a regenerative system. Regenerative Design provides the opportunity to restore, renew, revitalize, and replenish our natural resources. The aim of the process is to achieve net-positive impacts for nature, ecology, health and society. In this webinar Dr Phillip Roos an international expert in Environmental Design, will explore this exciting new direction in thinking and practice, including how timber use, and regenerative forestry, could be part of a regenerative-adaptive future for our planet. Webinar at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5irOB9EwTOOXVzm_oPoeAg Online Exhibition Now Available!! All living creatures on earth have an innate connection to water, in fact, we cannot survive without water. This deep affiliation to water heightens our sensory experiences and attachment to place, where beautiful landscapes along waterways gets settled by humans since ancient times. In the exhibition ‘Aquaphilia’, five contributors from a multidisciplinary background of architecture, landscape architecture, sculpture and fine arts – submerge themselves into the depths of their practice to produce works reflective of a ‘Love of Water’. The collection of contemporary visual and interactive artworks underpinned by the adoration for hydration, raises questions of social and environmental consciousness. View the online exhibition at https://www.aquaphilia.info  |
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