New outcomes of the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab and the business- and master plan for the Ecological Business District (Melbourne)

The Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) is a government funded design-led think tank to build new visions of Melbourne in 25 years in response to climate change. Through a unique process VEIL has a substantial range of projects that explore a paradigm change in infrastructure and systems of production and consumption –to networked localised ‘distributed’ systems, in energy, water, food and transport. The ‘City of Short Distances’ describes scenarios and visions or a transformed urban realm where the distance between production and consumption is reduced to increase resilience and energy efficiency and reduce green-house gas production. Some of this work has redirected a $600m AUD project for a central urban development. Plans for a radical Eco-City have been ‘vision-driven’ from outside of government. This work is now being transferred to a pilot ‘retrofit’ project in an existing urban area through a an approach of ‘acupuncture intervention’

4 December   Session F4   11.30 AM