The Guesthouse Project revolves around a full-scale pop-up structure that experimentally adapts the traditional guesthouse to reflect a new context, that of refugees, asylum seekers and other recent arrivals. It will be built during a two-week design and construct intensive led by Christof Mayer from internationally acclaimed, Berlin-based architecture collective raumlaborberlin. The intensive brings creative individuals with a refugee and migrant background together with students from RMIT University’s School of Architecture and Design. The structure will be designed and constructed on the grounds of an old primary school in Melbourne’s inner city suburb of Brunswick. It is a practice-led investigation into how design might be leveraged to generate social cohesion at the local scale. The outcome will be a temporary structure that acts as a stage for cross-cultural engagement and a catalyst for social inclusion – a guesthouse.
The Guesthouse pop-up is the focal point for a series of events that together comprise ‘The Guesthouse Project: Refugees, Migration and Inclusive Communities through Design’.
Please join us for the following events:
A public lecture by Christof Mayer from raumlaborberlin
Tuesday, 27.09.16, 6.00pm
RMIT University Design Hub, Corner Victoria and Swanston Streets, Melbourne
Building 100, Level 3, Lecture Theatre (100.03.001)
Founding member Christof Mayer discusses different projects of the internationally acclaimed, Berlin-based architecture collective raumlaborberlin.
The Guesthouse Opening With Christof Mayer from raumlaborberlin
Saturday, 01.10.16, 6.00 - 8.00pm
Siteworks, 33 Saxon St, Brunswick, Melbourne
Please join us to celebrate the opening of The Guesthouse with Christof Mayer from raumlaborberlin before he returns to Germany.
The Guesthouse Family Day + Party
Saturday, 15.10.16, 1.00 - 5.00pm
Siteworks, 33 Saxon St, Brunswick, Melbourne
Come and join us to celebrate cultural diversity and the local community at the Guesthouse! Share music, food and enjoy creative activities for children of all ages.
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