Business as (Un)usual , Perth / Australien

 

PIA Planing Institute Australia

AUDRC Australian Urban Design Research Centre

 

The Business as (Un)usual competition invites you to imagine a future Australian city that embodies a new Australian Dream for the twenty-first century. 

 

While Australia has so far dodged the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has dramatically reshaped lifestyle, dwelling and transport preferences. These shifts (amongst others) have reignited a raft of planning issues, including regional settlement patterns, public and private open space provision, housing design, urban density, and mass transit connectivity. This refocusing is timely because the traditional suburban Australian Dream is running out of steam on many fronts and fails to acknowledge tens of thousands of years of  Indigenous dreaming. 

 

This competition asks you to weave a new dream for Australian cities and express it in a proposal for a future Australian city of 50,000 people or more located in a regional area.. Your future city proposal will consist of an overall vision and the design of a 1km2 precinct.

 

The competition is open to tertiary students currently enrolled in an undergraduate or postgraduate program at an Australian (or international) university or technical college, and recent graduates (within one year of completion at the competition‘s closing date).

 

You can enter as an individual or a team. 

 

Final submissions are due 1 July 2022 

(before 11.59pm Australian Western Standard Time)

 

- Professor Richard Weller

Richard Weller is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture and Meyerson Chair of Urbanism  at the Weitzman School of Design University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia

 

- Professor Robin Goodman

Robin is Emeritus Professor of Urban Planning at RMIT (RPIA Fellow)

 

- Professor Robert Freestone

Robert is a Professor of Planning at UNSW (RPIA Fellow)

 

- Dr Beth George

Beth is a Senior Lecturer (Design) at the University of Newcastle

 

- Rebecca Moore

Rebecca is the Western Australian Government Architect (PIA Assoc)

 

- Perry Lethlean

Perry is Managing Director of landscape architectural practice Taylor Cullity Lethlean. 

 

- Abel Feleke

Abel is an Advisor to the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat and a Norman Foster Foundation Scholar

 

The total prize money is 10,000 AUD. 

Four winners to receive 2,500 AUD and a commendation.

Ten honourable mentions to receive a commendation.

 

We intend that all winners and other selected entries will be featured in an upcoming book and exhibition on future Australian Cities.