Guest Lectures
Design Studio Epsilon’s repository of Guest Lectures gathers recordings of talks by some of the most exciting international practitioners and researchers working in diverse cultural contexts on multi-unit residential projects and exploring innovative design solutions for social, environmental, and economic challenges of today. These talks are part of various public events hosted by the Melbourne School of Design over the past three years.
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12.8.2020 | LACOL
The lecture “Infrastructures for Sustainable Living: Modes of Housing” with Cristina Gamboa (LACOL) unpacks the relationship between the development process of La Borda Housing Cooperative in Barcelona and its architectural definition.
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18.8.2020 | Heide & von Beckerath
The lecture “Housing Narratives” by Verena von Beckerath introduces a selection of housing projects designed by Berlin based architecture studio Heide & von Beckerath, including R50 Cohousing, a project delivered in collaboration with ifau and Jesko Fezer.
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20.10.2020 | Hayball
The lecture "Kensington Assemble Housing: An introductions to Assemble Model" by Thomas Gilbert, presents a new innovative approach to a community driven apartment living.
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9.3.2021 | ON design partners
The lecture “Interactive Architecture: The Inherent Potential of Bringing People Together” by Osamu Nishida introduces four projects by ON design partners, including Yokohama Apartment (designed with Erika Nakagawa) and Cooperative Gardens.
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20.3.2021 | AKVS
In the lecture, “Blurred Thresholds: Experimental Dwelling Models”, Andjela Karabasevic of AKVS, an architecture practice from Belgrade (Serbia), presents four collective housing projects centred around the topic of opening individual dwelling spaces towards each other and towards their surroundings.
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3.8.2021 | arenas basabe palacios
The lecture ‘“Multiplayer City - Flexible Urban Supports for Complex Social Processes” by Luis Basabe presents Wildgarten, a masterplan for a residential neighbourhood in Vienna designed by arenas basabe palacios and discusses how to describe architecture as a process without defining its final result.
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24.8.2021 | Haworth Tompkins
In this lecture, Graham Haworth gives an in-detail overview of Iroko, a housing project for Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB), a not-for-profit company providing affordable homes in London, built in 2004 as an exemplary community-led urban regeneration.
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8.9.2021 | adamo-faiden
In the lecture “I love living in the city”, Marcelo Faiden presents the work of adamo-faiden architecture studio, including project for the residential building La Vecindad on Plaza Mafalda in Buenos Aires.
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5.11.2021 | BBOA
Fernando Brunel and Tomás Balparda of BBOA, an architecture studio based in Rosario, Argentina, present their project for Social Housing in Granadero as part of the ‘Architecture vs Housing’ panel at the symposium hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning in collaboration with the Hallmark Research Initiative for Affordable Housing (HRIAH) of the University of Melbourne.
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5.11.2021 | FAR frohn&rojas
Marc Frohn of FAR frohn&rojas presents the project Wohnregal Apartments in Berlin as part of the ‘Architecture vs Housing’ panel at the symposium hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning in collaboration with the Hallmark Research Initiative for Affordable Housing (HRIAH) of the University of Melbourne.
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5.11.2021 | bosch.capdeferro
Ramon Bosch presents the project 6x6 block in Girona, by bosch.capdeferro architecture as part of the ‘Architecture vs Housing’ panel at the symposium hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning in collaboration with the Hallmark Research Initiative for Affordable Housing (HRIAH) of the University of Melbourne.
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5.11.2021 | LIAN
Lisa Garner and Andrej Vodstrcil of LIANArchitects present their award winning project "Future Homes Demonstration" at the. symposium hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning in collaboration with the Hallmark Research Initiative for Affordable Housing (HRIAH) of the University of Melbourne.
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9.3.2022 | Guinee*Potin Architects
In the lecture “Sustainable and affordable collective social housing”, Herve Potin and Anne-Flore Guinée present 64 Social Housing Units in Aytre and other work of Guinee*Potin Architects, a practice based in Nantes, France.
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3.8.2022 | Peris+Toral Architects
The lecture “Building and Housing” by José Toral guides us through a tour of the projects by Peris+Toral Architects, including 85 Social Dwellings in Cornellà to address the challenges of social and environmental sustainability in collective public housing.
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17.8.2022 | SUMMACUMFEMMER
In the lecture, tilted “Non-finito” Anne Femmer from SUMMACUMFEMMER Studio discusses how building a house can take a lifetime and how what sounds like a nightmare to some is a source of happiness for others. It includes the personation of the Sanriemo project, for the housing cooperative Grossstadat in Munich, by Summacumfemmer Studio and Buro Juliane Greb.
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7.3.2023 | EM2N
In the lecture titled “Urban Social Housing”, part of the MSD Public Lectures Series, Verena Lindenmayer (EM2N), presents recently completed project for the New Housing on Briesestrase in Berlin and discusses the work of EM2N architectural practice with offices in Zurich and Berlin.
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14.3.2023 | Riegler Riewe Architects
In the lecture titled “determined/non-determined”, Roger Riewe speaks about the residential development Graz-Strassgang, a seminal multi-unit housing project designed by Roger Riewe and Florian Riegler in 1994, and other notable projects designed by Riegler Riewe Architects.
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28.3.2023 | GAAGA
In this lecture, Arie Bergsma and Esther Stevelink of design agency GAAGA based in Delft are presenting their project 'Bosbad', an experimental and circular residential building in park Bosrijk, Eindhoven, and discusses the connection between residents, the built structure and the forested landscape.
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7.8.2023 | Peter Barber Architects
In the lecture In the lecture "STREET ... who owns the city?", Peter Barber discusses the political context and the ideas which underpin the practice of Peter Barber Architects, and shows a selection of their street-based housing projects, including Donnybrook Quarter and their more recent McGrath Road in East London.
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15.8.2023 | Dekleva Gregorič Architects
In this lecture, Aljoša Dekleva discusses spatial, social and material aspects of collective living through research projects and recently built projects, including Housing Novo Brdo in Ljubljana.
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26.8.2020 | Darinka Czischke
In the webinar “The Re-Emergence of Collaborative Housing” with Dr Darinka Czischke, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, the Delft University of Technology, you will learn the main factors driving collaborative housing projects and understand the difference between ‘participation’ and ‘co-production’ in housing - a key distinction for architects aiming to become active in collaborative housing.
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26.8.2020 | Sophia Maalsen
In the lecture “Sharing Housing: digitalisation, changing tenure and the future of housing” Dr Sophia Maalsen, a lecturer and the Ian Fell Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, discusses opportunities and challenges of different forms of living and the role of digital technologies in the changing tenure forms, and what this means for the future of housing.
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11.8.2021 | Katrina Raynor
In this lecture, “Five Top Tips for affordable, responsive multi-unit housing” Dr Katrina Raynor, an urban planning scholar with expertise in housing policy, inter-sectoral partnerships for housing delivery, examines design strategies and approaches towards affordable, responsive multi-unit housing, particularly focusing on the contextual elements that constrain or enable genuinely affordable and well-design housing.
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