Deep City

Future scenarios for Bendigo Creek and Golden Square

Deep City studio investigates future scenarios for Bendigo Creek and Golden Square, by re-framing the narrative of Bendigo through its creek network. Considering this water network as the key vehicle through which people understand, use, describe and inhabit Bendigo allows for new hybrid future environments to be imagined.

Students will work across multiple scales to inform their design responses. The scales range from the site scale of Golden Square to the city scale of the Bendigo Creek network to the regional scale of the Murray-Darling Basin catchments. Students will be required to undertake on-site work in Golden Square and at least two compulsory fieldwork trips to the surrounding regions of Bendigo that will enable first-hand experience of these varying scales and conditions.

The studio will build on the common visions developed in a community-wide process by the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities on how the management of water can help shape a more liveable, resilient and sustainable Bendigo. Design outcomes will be exhibited in a public exhibition in Bendigo, having the possibility of influencing council’s decision making and framing future government projects for the region.

The studio will run in conjunction with a studies unit (arc4/5502) and all students are required to enroll in both subjects.

In association with the Co-operative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities and the City of Bendigo
In parallel with the Masters of Urban Planning and Design Ecological City Planning Project Wednesdays (with additional Monday mornings) ARC4002/5002