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I’m from New York. I’m here for the Urban Realities Design Challenge.
I’m coming from Barcelona.
I’m from Hawke's Bay in New Zealand.
I’m Tim Salvan. I’m from Melbourne.
My name’s Catherine. I am a part of the team from OUTR research lab and we’re running Urban
Realities, the landscape urbanism 3 day design challenge.
So we’ve had a really hectic morning. All the participants arrived. They’ve got their
welcome packs, they’ve got their uniforms, they’ve got their hard hats.
So I’m pretty sure everybody’s ready to go. Fingers crossed. There’s lots of excitement in the air
so we’re feeling pretty good about it.
I kind of want it to start, I want the competition to start soon, I ... like, yeah. I don’t want
to wait anymore.
I’m a little bit nervous but excited, yeah.
Great. Excited.
It’s very exciting to be here.
I feel very enthusiastic, yeah.
We’re excited.
Go get them.
Okay. So the day has come. It’s day one. We’ve just had all the participants and all of
our support team as well as some sponsors and the media crew, down here at the cow in the tree
for the launch. We’ve had the giant pretzels arrive, they’ve had a wonderful morning tea. The sun’s out,
we are so lucky and we’ve given each of the teams their brief.
They’ve all run to see their sites to do some site analysis and the day has finally begun.
Three days from here. Good luck everyone.
I’m really excited. I’ve just been waiting for this moment basically, there’s been so much
build-up and anticipation, so much information to process and now that we actually have
our purpose and our brief it’s good to be able to put all of that thinking, you know, into
something concrete and solid that we know we can use.
We’ll turn it into something sexy and fun.
M-A-D Collective, moveable, able design.
We’re here down at Docklands and I ... we’re designing your new world.
Yeah, we’ve brainstorming like mad sitting in the sun and, yeah, it’s pretty exciting. We’ve got
things on the role.
I think we’re feeling a little bit overwhelmed. There’s so many ideas going around and ...
We’re really going to be pushed to create some of these great ideas that we’re having but ...
Everyone’s working from a different angle so we've to spend a lot of time on our own developing some ideas
and we’re about to sort of get together and try and simplify.
Okay. So it’s day two. We’ve had a little bit of chaos with all the teams needing to hire the cars,
needing to get their budgets sorted, needing to get their designs signed off but most of them
seem like they’re pretty much on track.
A lot of the sites are just starting to ... you’re starting to see materials appear.
You’re starting to see a little bit of construction take place. I have a feeling there’ll be a
site testing period before you start to really understand, you know, what each of these sites is
emerging to be. So I don’t think anyone’s too tired yet. I think this’ll be the first big night,
it’ll be the long haul and then we’ll ... we’ll see what we come up with tomorrow.
So we’ve got a number of plans that are all going to come together at the last possible moment,
just to keep everyone guessing.
We’ve been absolutely thrashing out some amazing ideas.
Some team members are blogging and preparing media stuff. I’ve got some team members
scavenging extra recycled materials and some other guy’s just gone to the hardware shop.
We’re at an exciting point in the design process. We’ve got our materials and we’re starting
to sort of experiment with ... well not experiment, test how they’ll come together.
So it’s quite a critical moment but also exciting and hopefully, fingers crossed, what
we designed and how it’ll come together will work.
I’m on the support team for the Urban Realities competition. At the moment we’re just going
round to all of the sites and we’re giving them all their site payments which allow them to make
interventions into the public realm.
G’day, I’m Craig Douglas. I’m one of the support team organisers of this event. We’re here today,
this is day two. Yeah, this is day two. We’re pretty tired but it’s going well. The teams
are at a stage where they’ve all, you know, designed their interventions and are partly
in the shed constructing, finishing off their designs and partly out on site getting on with the work.
So we’re really excited to see what becomes of what they do.
This is not much sleep but it’s going to get a fair bit sleepless from here on in. I think there’s
going to be a few late nights.
Hey, so we’re in day three. We’ve probably got around 18 hours to go. I have a feeling that there’s
a few tired bodies. We had our first sort of 24-hour shift last night but it looks like the sites
are finally coming together. There’s been a few teams that are constructing things off-site.
So basically a really quick update. We’re building a sequence of pods which are going to create
a pathway. Our idea is to define space to allow connection from the old part of the wharf
into a new part of the wharf.
We’re building a ... I’ve been calling it a bower actually but some people have been calling it
a ... it’s a graft, it’s the urban graft.
What we’re creating here isn’t a piece of urban art or a piece of landscape. We’re actually
making a clinic to address this disorder called urban malaise.
We’re making ... we’ve been calling it a pixel beach. It’s kind of a little ... a dot on the Docklands
of the kind of the idea of ... the fantasy of having a beach here and ...
We’re getting the main structure up now. It’s finally coming together.
What we’re doing now is we’re trying to get as many of these bottle caps as possible into
... and we try to thread them together.
We’re standing in the middle of the wind tunnel that is waterfront city at Docklands. As you can see ...
The wind is something that we can’t ignore on this site so everything that we talked
about sort of just came back to the wind and ...
It’s kind of interactive and we really hope that when we get these out in the open air the wind
will pick them up, the light will pick them up and it ties in with, you know, the water
and like I said wind and the elements and ...
It gives a little bit of that peaceful feeling, that meditative sense.
This one sheet has taken us two hours to cover and we have eight of these to do so I’d say
we ... none of us will be seeing any sleep tonight. We’re kind of really against the clock
but we’re all kind of up for it and we’ve got someone bringing us some beers down later on so
that’ll either speed up the process or slow it down, we’ll find out [chuckles].
How far through are we? Maybe ...
Twenty-five percent through.
Eighty percent done.
Seventy-five percent without wanting to be too optimistic.
I feel really tired.
Yeah, we’ve been ... we’ve been doing this for how many hours yesterday.
We’ve been going for a couple of days now.
Until three o'clock in the morning last night.
They’ve been pretty late nights and not a lot of sleep in the kind of large scale hostel that we’re staying in.
We’re always up all night.
Yeah, I’m possibly going to do like some all nighters with the team.
Yeah, I think we’re going to be pulling an all nighter tonight, it’s looking pretty likely.
Yeah, we’re feeling a bit tired, 13 cubic metres of sand at least, now putting it in ...
quite a bit of it in bags as ... it’s going to be a long night.