LATROBE
CITY GIPPSLAND’S REGIONAL CITY
Workshop Series -
Thursday, November 7, 2013
This
workshop was led by OUTR (RMIT University) with the award winning Dutch
designer Bart Brands from Karres en Brands. The intention was to respond to the
Gippsland Regional growth plan in which Latrobe City is identified and
projected as the 'Regional City for Gippsland'. The ambition of the workshop was
to imagine and develop key strategies for what an ideal Latrobe City might not
only look like, but also how it might operate through unique relationships
defined through social, economic, and ecological systems.
This
workshop builds on RMIT's work on 'Transiting Cities Low Carbon Futures:
Latrobe City' that aims to identify visions of a new, innovative and
alternative city of the near future by defining opportunities for transition
into a low carbon, prosperous, and vibrant community for Latrobe city.
The
diversity and depth of participant’s experience and knowledge produced a potent
range of insightful aspirations and actions that embrace the qualities of
region, and enable the creation of a rich vision for the future.
Following
the success of this workshop we hope to continue to invite experts from around
the world to engage with a broad spectrum of the local community to actively
shape a prosperous future for Latrobe.
Bart Brands discusses some of the work generated in the workshop.
