Open Agenda is an annual competition aimed at supporting the development of a new generation of experimental designers in Australian architecture. Open to recent architecture graduates, Open Agenda is focused on developing the potentials and possibilities of speculative design and research in response to current and future issues facing architecture, design and the built environment.
This national competition is intentionally broad in its scope, and dedicated to fostering new discussions on architecture in the public realm. Open Agenda is an initiative of the School of Architecture at UTS.
2010 Winners
The architecture drawing project by Byron Kinnaird and Barnaby Bennett (Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand graduates)
(in)human habitat by James Gardiner (UTS/RMIT graduate)
City Breeder by David Pigram and Iain Maxwell (University of Canberra/AA/GSAPP graduates)
Honourable Mention
Linear Monument: a search for urban futures proposal by Ben Milbourne and Edmund Carter (University of Sydney/RMIT graduates)
The three winning proposals will each receive $2000 from the University of Technology, School of Architecture to develop their proposals into an exhibition, publication and lecture format. The exhibition will be created at Customs House in Sydney, and will open in mid October this year as part of Architecture week.
The range and the quality of the proposals received in the inaugural year of the Open Agenda competition was exceptional. The winning entries explore issues from the urban to ecological infrastructures to modes of architectural representation. Together they sketch a critical response to dominant issues in architecture and the built environment. The lectures, exhibition and publication will allow these agendas to be opened to broader discussion.
More information on the winning proposals and dates for the Open Agenda Exhibition will be available soon.
Contact
openagenda (at) uts.edu.au
Dates
June 2010
Announcement of prize winners and special mentions
October 2010
Publication launch and exhibition at Customs House, Sydney (to coincide with Architecture Week in Sydney)
October 2010
Public Lecture
People
Chair
Anthony Burke, UTS Architecture
Competition Co-ordinator
Rebecca Thomas
Advisory Panel
Andrew Benjamin, Monash University
Richard Goodwin, UNSW COFA
Michael Bell, Columbia University GSAPP
Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT SIAL
Mitchell Whitelaw, University of Canberra
Jennifer Kwok, Curator - Customs House, City of Sydney
Craig Allchin, Six Degrees
David Burns, UTS Photography and Situated Media
Sponsors
School of Architecture, UTS
Customs House, City of Sydney
DABDOCS UTS
Media Partner
