DETAILS
Free, booking required
Test Garden
Skyline Car Park, Federation Square, Melbourne VIC, Australia
ACCESS
On Route is a conversation with design professionals and emerging thought leaders, which aims to theorise on the potential of spaces created for transport, asking how we both shape, and are shaped by the transport spaces we engage with.
In architecture and urban design, we often talk about transport at the level of systems, numbers, urbanity, connectivity, and cities, yet the spaces attached to these words are personal, complex, unpolished, and relational. These discussions remove the layers of inaccessibility that large topics are often cloaked with, revealing the unpolished tension that exists within undervalued transport spaces. Through doing this this event asks: what can be gained by designers speculating on transport at the level of the individual, and how the individual manoeuvres through the large-scale systems and spaces they are faced with?
The event takes place at the Test Garden, a site for speculation which exists as a haven of resilience amongst the obstructive scars created by the Flinders Street rail lines. Bringing personal stories, musings, and proposals for a network which aids the rush of cities – to speculate on more equitable futures – speakers will occupy the site as they question how we can better accommodate for individual experience in public space.
On Route is presented in partnership with Fed Square.
Participants
Tahj Rosmarin
Tahj Rosmarin is a Melbourne based registered architect and urban designer. He is the co-director of CARD: an emerging practice focused on improving the 'everyday' practice of people's lives tested at a variety of scales, through unique private houses, urban research projects or advocacy work. He is particularly interested in the intersections of architecture, landscape and the public realm, with current research work focusing on the topics of multiculturalism and urban informality.
Patrick Macasaet and Vei Tan
SUPERSCALE is a research-led and speculative multidimensional creative practice. They superscale their architectural training to permeate disciplinary boundaries - unearthing new realities, possibilities, techniques and imaginings for architectural speculation, pedagogy and design.
Hosna Eqbal
Hosna Eqbal is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the reciprocal relationship between art, architecture, and the human spirit. Self-reflexivity is central to her practice, woven through projects of ritual and collective memory. Her work investigates how comparisons with history, cultural traditions, and the relationship between artisanal and architectural excellence should come into contact with intense emotional and poetic emotion on both large and small scales.
Andrew Copolov
Andrew Copolov is an architectural designer and researcher from Melbourne. He is a PhD candidate in Architecture at Monash University and in 2022 he founded the Gig Workers’ Hub. The Hub provides delivery workers with space in which to socialise, organise, access amenities, and receive targeted support.
Dr Anna Edwards
Dr Anna Edwards is a leading expert in night-time economies, earning her PhD in 2024 on night-time economy policymaking and governance in Australian cities. She is a Research Fellow in Urban Studies at the University of Melbourne, and co-founded Ingenium Research, a consultancy specialising in night-time economy research and data-driven insights.
Clara Chanisheff
Clara Chanisheff investigates the ways in which olfactory perception shapes human experience, identity, and its relationship to language. Drawing from her training as a perfumer, she combines her technical skills with scientific methodologies to investigate the commodification of sensory experiences and the diminishing presence of natural olfactory cues in an era of hyper-sanitation and digital mediation. By rendering the intangible visible, she examines the shifting relationship between biodata, personal autonomy, and the corporate and political forces shaping perceptions of identity.