Public Space-focused Design Studios

Lower Pool Design Studios

Studio Leader: Jen Lynch

In partnership with City of Melbourne City Design Studio

Working in collaboration with the City of Melbourne’s City Design team, studios have explored design approaches that support creative, collective and generative public spaces. Using ‘live’ projects across the city as starting points and testing grounds, curriculum has engaged with the urban landscape as its subject and setting. The studio learning environment supports experimentation, collective ways of working and the development of shared research and resources, forming a parallel with the types of spaces and processes the design explorations aim to support. Collaborations with the City of Melbourne throughout the semester have included workshops, review discussions and the student-led production of a public exhibition.

Photos by Jen Lynch

Drawings by Rose Bailey, Greta Hollows, Nik Tirtono