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29.11.15

ARCHITECTS FOR PEACE, END OF YEAR PICNIC 2015

Dear friends of Architects for peace in Melbourne ,

You are kindly invited to join us on the afternoon of Saturday 28 November 2015 for our End of Year PICNIC. This will be an informal gathering and a great opportunity to get to know each other, discuss topics close to our hearts and develop plans for the coming year.

Architects for Peace's End of Year PICNIC:
Date: Saturday 28 November 2015, from 2pm
Location: Carlton Gardens, meet near the West pond! (map here)

We hope you can join us!

Please also contact us on how you would like to contribute or to share ideas about activating the Architects for Peace mission. As a volunteer-run organisation, our growth depends very much on the initiative and enthusiasm of those who actively participate.

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21.3.11

Architects for Peace on Facebook - join us

www.facebook.com/architectsforpeace

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20.11.09

Understanding Design: Robin Boyd Foundation

Understanding
Design:
Robin Boyd
Foundation


Invitation to public open day: Sunday 6 December 2009

The Robin Boyd Foundation invites you to visit Griffin’s Melbourne – a public open day of buildings designed by the architectural partnership of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin.
Robin Boyd praised Walter Burley Griffin as ‘an irritant to the establishment…and an inspiration to young designers’. In Boyd’s opinion, ‘Griffin accelerated the development of Melbourne’s architecture beyond the normal Australian rate of progress in the first half of the (twentieth) century’.

The Griffins are acknowledged as Australia’s first international architects. The brilliant and visionary designers of the grand public Centre for design awareness Centre for scholarship and research Museum house...

Find more: www.robinboyd.org.au

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16.10.09

Call for Papers *Drawing is a way of thinking

DRAWING OUT

7-9 April 2010, Melbourne Australia

A creative collaboration between RMIT University and University of the Arts London

Drawing is a way of thinking
Drawing is a way of communicating

DRAWING OUT is a transdisciplinary conference. It explores drawing across the boundaries of disciplines. It addresses drawing as a way of thinking and communicating in the twenty-first century. Whoever we are, drawing is part of our everyday and professional lives.

The conference investigates the role of drawing in its widest possibilities, such as physical and virtual drawing; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural practices; digital schemas; fashion templates; architectural and engineering designs; creative writing; media and communications concepts; cartography and scientific schematics; architectural and mathematical modelling; business and financial mapping; legal, educational and political visualisations.

Submissions are sought from academics, industry professionals, practitioners and others engaged in the fields of: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies; Animation & Interactive Media; Architecture; Art; Built Environment; Cartography; Commerce; Communications; Design; Engineering; Fashion; Film; Information Technology; Legal systems; Photography; Sciences; Social Sciences and Textiles.

Proposals for papers, workshops, panels and exhibitions are invited, as well as for other innovative modes of presentation. Proposals are sought in three broad streams, and might address (but are not limited to) the following sub themes:

1 – Drawing in / Drawing is a way of thinking
Drawing as second nature: how do we think openly through drawing?
Drawing as a speculative activity.

2 – Drawing out / Drawing is a way of mapping
After drawing: how is drawing an impetus to other practices?
What opportunities exist for new technologies as a way of mapping our world?

3 – Drawing across / Drawing is a way of communicating
Drawing as a part of general literacy and its relationship to numeracy, writing and measurement.
Drawing as a means of transferring information.

Submissions of abstracts and project proposals: Friday 23 October 2009
Notification of Acceptance of Abstracts: Friday 13 November 2009
Submission of full papers: Friday 15 January 2010
Revision advice on review of full papers: Monday 15 February 2010
Submission of revised papers and non-refereed papers/projects: Friday 5 March 2010

Abstracts are limited to 400 words, and full papers will be limited to 3500 words.
To submit an abstract, please use the online conference paper management system.

For further information, www.drawingout.com.au

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2.9.09

Design Eduction - 2010 Call for Papers


The international Journal of Architecture Research (Archnet -IJAR) is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue on Design Education 2010: Explorations and Prospects for Better Built Environment.

For more information download : http://docs.google.com
or e-mail at: ijar@mit.edu

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1.9.09

WELCOME SPRING

WELCOME SPRING'











The 'Marzanna' doll represents a welcoming of spring. It is an event that is celebrated in countries like Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic.
I, along with my friends and anyone who wants to join in- children most welcome, will make the doll to mark the beginning of summer and throw her into the river to banish the cold winter.

We hope to make the doll out of recyclable and sustainable materials, so please forward any suggestions as to what we can use and where we can source it. Also, what you think the best location might be to host this event. (somewhere close to a river and weather permitting)

A date will be confirmed soon, however it will most likely be on Saturday the 12th or 19th.

For more information on the 'Marzanna' please see http://culture.polishsite.us/articles/art297fr.htm or
http://www.humanflowerproject.com/index.php/weblog/comments/here_you_go_marzanna/

You can contact us by writing to magda@architectsforpeace.org (Magda), kamil.muhammad@gmail.com (Kamil) and eleanor@architectsforpeace.org (Eleanor)

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