Studio P: Placemaking

MUP Studio P: Creating and Designing Inclusive Places

Derlie Mateo-Babiano

MUP Studio P

In demographically diverse suburbs in Melbourne, place making practices are unconsciously enacted through cultural practices and habits of citizenry imported from other places. Where do they originate? How do they change during the migration process? Can they inform urban renewal policy and design?

The MUP Studio P (P for placemaking) advances theoretical knowledge and provides practical experience by engaging master level students in re-shaping urban spaces at the pedestrian and/or neighbourhood scale. Through a placemaking process, students will undertake a series of individual, self-guided tasks, complemented by a small amount of group work aimed at building student’s design and spatial thinking, critical analysis, participatory techniques as well as leadership and teamwork capabilities more broadly.

The Placemaking project will engage students in reimagining the public realm in the most culturally diverse city in Australia, the City of Greater Dandenong.

The Placemaking project will engage students in reimagining a case study project. The suburb of Springvale in the City of Greater Dandenong will be its case study context. Springvale is approximately 25 kilometres south-east of Melbourne's CBD. It presents a complex interaction of diverse land uses as well as home to a multicultural populace, with residents who have emigrated from all over the world including Asia, the Americas, Europe and Africa. Springvale, therefore, presents a highly suitable transformative case study area.

Times and locations

  • ST1/01: Monday 12-3pm – MSD Room 228
  • ST2/01: Wednesday 9-12pm – MSD Room 238

Studio leaders

Dr. Derlie Mateo-Babiano

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