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“Visionary Design Development participated in the International Architecture “Melbourne Affordable Housing” Competition. The result of our outcome aimed at exploring sustainability by examining existing housing stock in Melbourne and exploring opportunity in making it accessible for all, as well as facilitating for diverse needs and multigenerational living.
Mary Ann’s PhD continues. Given the pandemic situation, fieldwork proposed for 2020 has been carried over to 2021.
Symposium: A Participatory Urban Aesthetic?
Communities rarely meaningfully participate in the design of the urban landscape. Human rights-based approaches in built environment delivery require a more active engagement of rights holders in the design process.
We have expanded the Team! Ilianna Ginnis has come on board as our graduate intern designer.
Improving built environment ‘sustainability’ performance, via measurement, and placemaking performance, via ‘activation’, receives much contemporary attention.
The pervasive ideology of institutionalisation in the past has meant that we have inherited a built environment that is largely inaccessible to people with disability. Accessibility specialist Mary Ann Jackson outlines her important work on the assessment tools and required action for improved accessibility in the built environment.
With an entry in the Contribution and Innovation category, Visionary Design Development has been selected as a finalist in the 2018 Architeam Awards for ‘Accessibility in the Built Environment.
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In the spirit of reconciliation Visionary Design Development also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea, and community. We pay our respect to elders past, present, and emerging, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
