First out of the blocks

Allan McDonald, team leader, Krystina Kaza and Jeanette Budgett are the first Ak Ecologies project to publish their initial research. Join us on Tuesday 5^th of June at Sno White to see the work and read Jeanette’s essay . 

Rosebank Road Project progress 29/5/12

Paul Woodruffe and Faye Norman have photographically documented 3 important sites on the peninsular; the old Connell brothers land, Vince Middledorp’s land with racehorse stables and the last 2 acres of Haywood Wright’s property complete with his original buildings and heritage garden. We are currently filming these places and interviewing the owner/residents of these sites and will be editing this work into a 1993 28 minute amateur film of the Connell brothers gifted to us by a council employee to complete a documentary of these places of special character. The community mapping project is slowly taking shape with the support of the Avondale Community Garders and the Avondale Historic society, the first being an art-map of the route Vince walks his race horses, the second will be of the industrial section of Rosebank Road. We are also currently working with the ACG on a design and project management proposal to plant fruit trees on 5 childrens playground areas in Rosebank Road, we are looking for BLA students and staff to work on this with.

Five 3^rd year DVA students working with the collective have just completed the branding identity for the Unitec/Rosebank Road Business Association joint venture, our first contact with the businesses in the area. The collective have become members of the Avondale Community Gardeners.

sustaincity around the world

AP Bogunovitch has just given three papers at international conferences including a key note address "Cities and Academia in the Era of Climate Change" at the 12^th International Educating Cities conference at Changwon  http://www.iaec2012.go.kr/eng/sub/02_01_02.jsp and: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p2sN3jpqnM

"The City and the Crunch: Contours of A Pending Disaster ‘, at the   "Contours of The City" Conference in Bologna

http://www.laboratoriocitta.unibo.it/laboratorio/Bacheca/Eventi/2012/05/3_maggio_2012.htm

and Urban Sustainability:  Resilient Regions, Sustainable Sprawl and Green Infrastructure" at the "Sustainable City 2012 - 7th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability" conference at Ancona

http://sustainablecities.dk/files/sustainablecity2012cfp.pdf

The Unitec Arboretum project is progressing well with documentation of campus trees 2/3 complete, labels for 100 trees prepared for installation on World Environment Day June 5, and the interactive campus tree website in development, as shown in the screen shot. Penny Cliffin participated in the Wairaka Stream information session on campus last week with other Unitec sustainability fund researchers, and is giving a refereed conference paper about the Arboretum in Copenhagen next month. 

Allan McDonald, one of New Zealands leading documentary photographers is working with architectural scholars Graeme McConchie Krystina Kaza Jeanette Budgett on documenting Aucklands vulnerable  Edwardian commercial architecture as part of the AK ECO project, Prone.