FIX Exhibition opens in "CAPITheticAL" style

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The Gallery of Australian Design’s latest exhibition, CAPETheticAL, is one of few art and design based exhibits going around that provides substance for the future.
With the opening of the exhibition last Wednesday, the best works of designers, architects and students from across 24 countries were put on display, all being from a competition held late last year to design a new capital city.
Of 1200 competitors, the top 20 were adjudged last December, and it is these works that are on display.
The criteria for the competition dealt with key areas of urban growth, such as sustainability, liveability, climate change, and transport.
And with Canberra’s population growing at around two percent per year, and estimated to reach 550,000 by 2050, it may prove to be a useful competition.
Walter Cialis cheap us pharmacy Burley Griffin’s original blueprint of Canberra, designed to house just 25,000 people, has been long out-dated, and the city is already experiencing major updates in sustainability, liveability, and transport.
Curator of CAPITheticAL Michael Desmond said that recent ACT Government actions made it clear future urban plans are important.
“Some of them [future development plans] they’re already discussing,” he said.
“In the short term we had a new Cotter Damn opening; so they’re looking for a water source…and they’ve looked at light rail between Civic and Gungahlin.”
“It looks like they’re responding to the needs of tomorrow.”
The exhibition displays works of exactly that, with models, scrap books, blueprints, plans and videos all portraying ideas ranging between realistic, fresh, outrageous, and adventurous.
One standout display is ‘State of Mine’ by Master Architects from the University of Melbourne Samson Tiew and Beatrice .
In their graphic plan, they show how Australia’s capital should be relocated to a disused mine pit in the Northern Territory, with close proximity to inevitable foreign partners of the next century, Asia.
They would have a government-focussed city of just 60,000 people, with urban farms in between suburbia, and high speed rail to Darwin.
A rail line would loop the city, providing effective orbital public transport.
Other displays showed how it would be effective to have more than one capital city, or even have the capital move once every X number of years.
Director of the Gallery of Australian Design Magdalene Keaney said that CAPITheticAL is an ideal display of professional, competitive works for any design student.
“It’s great for architecture students to come down and see the quality of entrants, and to see some ideals and trail-blazing kind of thinking,” she said.