The Exchange
The Exchange at Knowledge Market is a research collaboration by RMIT University and Lendlease, embedded as an ‘Urban Living Lab’ within the Victoria Harbour precinct of the Docklands, Melbourne. Using the Victoria Harbour site as its case study, The Exchange seeks to understand the factors influencing long-term environmental and social sustainability in high-density urban environments.
Using a multidisciplinary approach, The Exchange explores environmental and social resilience through the lens of design ethnography, landscape architecture, interior design, service design, interaction design, fashion and textiles, and graphic design. Through community-oriented programming, The Exchange explores and shares ideas for sustainable and resilient futures within the urban environment with a diverse audience.
Student projects generated through a series of design research studios are featured in free public exhibitions investigating the effects of rising sea levels, behavioural change systems addressing consumption and waste habits, closed-loop food waste infrastructure and greener cities through biodiversity. A program of free public lectures at The Exchange welcomes industry leaders, major stakeholders, art and design professionals, as well as leading cultural theorists and commentators to share their thoughts regarding sustainable urban environments with a broad community audience
The Exchange team is: Dr Charles Anderson, Dr Shanti Sumartojo, Dr Ross McLeod.
Research Projects
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This commitment to the design of places is progressively sharpened through engagement with the teaching and research of design at Universities across Australia and internationally, as well as through regular participation in design competitions, conferences and Public Fora.Stutterheim / Anderson is a Landscape Architecture practice grounded in two inter-dependent qualities: an awareness that our fundamental responsibility is to the Earth as the dominant force with which we negotiate as designers, and a fine-grained attentiveness to the temporal and spatial, physical and immaterial forces which constitute place. The results are robust and resilient projects tailor-made to specific places. This commitment to the design of places is progressively sharpened through engagement with the teaching and research of design at Universities across Australia and internationally, as well as through regular participation in design competitions, conferences and Public Fora.
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This commitment to the design of places is progressively sharpened through engagement with the teaching and research of design at Universities across Australia and internationally, as well as through regular participation in design competitions, conferences and Public Fora.Stutterheim / Anderson is a Landscape Architecture practice grounded in two inter-dependent qualities: an awareness that our fundamental responsibility is to the Earth as the dominant force with which we negotiate as designers, and a fine-grained attentiveness to the temporal and spatial, physical and immaterial forces which constitute place. The results are robust and resilient projects tailor-made to specific places. This commitment to the design of places is progressively sharpened through engagement with the teaching and research of design at Universities across Australia and internationally, as well as through regular participation in design competitions, conferences and Public Fora.
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This commitment to the design of places is progressively sharpened through engagement with the teaching and research of design at Universities across Australia and internationally, as well as through regular participation in design competitions, conferences and Public Fora.Stutterheim / Anderson is a Landscape Architecture practice grounded in two inter-dependent qualities: an awareness that our fundamental responsibility is to the Earth as the dominant force with which we negotiate as designers, and a fine-grained attentiveness to the temporal and spatial, physical and immaterial forces which constitute place. The results are robust and resilient projects tailor-made to specific places. This commitment to the design of places is progressively sharpened through engagement with the teaching and research of design at Universities across Australia and internationally, as well as through regular participation in design competitions, conferences and Public Fora.
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This commitment to the design of places is progressively sharpened through engagement with the teaching and research of design at Universities across Australia and internationally, as well as through regular participation in design competitions, conferences and Public Fora.Stutterheim / Anderson is a Landscape Architecture practice grounded in two inter-dependent qualities: an awareness that our fundamental responsibility is to the Earth as the dominant force with which we negotiate as designers, and a fine-grained attentiveness to the temporal and spatial, physical and immaterial forces which constitute place. The results are robust and resilient projects tailor-made to specific places. This commitment to the design of places is progressively sharpened through engagement with the teaching and research of design at Universities across Australia and internationally, as well as through regular participation in design competitions, conferences and Public Fora.