Research Workshop:

Coordinators
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima, Atelier Bow Wow (Japan)
Taira Nishizawa (Japan)
with:
Marika Neustupny, RMIT Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio (Melbourne)
Mauro Baracco, RMIT Architecture, Baracco Wright (Melbourne)

Research Workshop Participants
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima, Atelier Bow Wow (Japan)
Taira Nishizawa (Japan)
Marika Neustupny, RMIT Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio (Melbourne)
Mauro Baracco, RMIT Architecture, Baracco Wright (Melbourne)
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Students – Urban Architecture Stream
Tsukamoto Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITech) Architecture students
Tsukuba University Architecture students

This intensive two week research workshop “Rapt! Laboratory for Social Space Melbourne” was held in the Greenhouse, an Atelier Bow-Wow urban installation, in City Square, Swanston Street, Melbourne.The transparency of the Greenhouse structure is symbolic of their desire to open up their practice and methodologies to Melbourne audiences. All activities by staff and students were open to the passing public.

Rapt! Blog Article:
Rapt! launches at the City Square
Japan Design Net Report (text in Japanese):
Rapt! Laboratory for Social Space Melbourne

Public Exhibition

Research Workshop Exhibition
Rapt! Laboratory for Social Space Melbourne
The Greenhouse, Atelier Bow-Wow urban installation
Wednesday 30th August – Saturday 2nd September
10am – 6 pm

Rapt! Blog Article:
Social gathering at Rapt! Laboratory for Social Space Melbourne

Related Exhibition

Atelier Bow-wow
Manga Pod Installation
Object Gallery, Sydney
August 2006

Rapt! Blog article:
Atelier Bow-Wow’s manga pod

Public Lectures

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima, Practice: Atelier Bow-Wow, (Japan)
Louise Wright, Practice: Baracco Wright, (Melbourne)
Marika Neustupny, Practice: NMBW Architecture Studio, (Melbourne)
Mark Raggatt, Practice: Dire Tribe, (Melbourne)
co-presented by the half-time club
Friday 25th August
6.00 pm

Taira Nishizawa, Taira Nishizawa Architects & Associates (Japan)
Saturday 26th August
6.30 pm

Shihoko Iida, (Japan)
Rapt! curator; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery Curator
Sunday 27th August
6.00 pm
Rapt! Blog Article:
Shihoko Iiada arrives in Melbourne

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima, Practice: Atelier Bow-Wow, (Japan)
Sunday 27th August
6.30 pm

Venue:
Rapt! Laboratory for Social Space Melbourne
Greenhouse, Atelier Bow-Wow urban installation
City Square, Swanston Street, Melbourne CBD
25th Aug-Sat 2nd Sept, 2006

RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio

Marika Neustupny
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio Leader
practice: NMBW Architecture Studio, Melbourne

Mauro Baracco, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio Leader
practice: Baracco Wright, Melbourne

The intensive two week RAPT! Research Workshop with Atelier Bow Wow (Japan), Taira Nishizawa (Japan) and architecture students from Tsukamoto Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITech), andTsukuba University formed a key stage in a semester long RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio. The  provisional urban research methodologies and outcomes of the workshop were drawn on to inform culminating architectural design proposals by each of the RMIT Architecture design studio students.