about the forum
May 8, 2007 at 1:07 pm 4 comments
Date: Saturday September 1, 2007 (11am-7:30pm)
Venue: RMIT University, Building 94, 23-27 Cardigan Street, Carlton
What is transported?
Transported (Saturday September 1, 2007), will be a forum and workshop that will discuss the issue of collective modes of transportation in relation to climate change and responsible urban development.
The purpose of this forum is to bring together academics and community perspectives for a dialogue that reveals the magnitude and ramifications that transport has in our environment and every day life.
Objectives
- To create a position paper for Architects for Peace on the role of transport in the sustainable development of Melbourne.
- To engage the professions of the built environment and secondary school students from inner and outer suburban Melbourne in a discussion around key themes presented in a conference format to inform a position paper for Architects for Peace
- To present a position paper to the City of Melbouren Future Melbourne consultation process and to the State Government of Victoria.
Topics
- Transport and the democratic and sustainable city
- Set the framework
- Transport and participation in the city – who is there and who is not.
- Alternate models of integrated collective transport systems – road, rail, cycle and pedestrian
- The economic questions around the provision of a sustainable collective transport system. The alternate view on individual transport
- Access and mobility to and in the city as a manifestation of democracy
This forum involves the participation of academics, transport lobbyists, politicians, and socio-physical exclusion experts
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If you would like to be involved in this exciting forum, please contact us here and become part of our Transported multidisciplinary team.
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su | June 5, 2007 at 1:54 am
As Kenneth Davidson is one of our key speakers at the forum please note that he is speaking tonight at another forum after the showing of ‘A Crude Awakening’ – the documentary on the impending oil crisis. It is being screened at Nova Cinema Carlton
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comuhouse | June 5, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Hi, I didn’t manage to attend, but if anyone did, please tell us about this event.
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Matt Cook | September 15, 2007 at 11:28 am
I too would like to know what happened at this intriguing event. What became of the potential?
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comuhouse | February 9, 2008 at 1:23 am
Hi Matt, as transport is an important issue involving the quality of the urban space, the work still continues. For example we have been invited to present our position, as arch-peace, in the Sustainable Living Festival (February 17, 2008, Fed Square). For this presentation we will stress the responsibility and contribution that the professions of the built environment can offer to the quality of our cities. Most important, how transport cannot be resolved by isolating it from the city in its totallity (form, society, ecology).