What is it?
New spaces and places for innovation and collaboration. Prototyping new technologies, ideas and approaches to the public realm. Re-imagining the ways that public spaces are used and regulated.
Aims of Public Realm:
- Linking public spaces with public ideas to refresh civic engagement, public debate and urban life.
- Integration of new principles in planning, design and use of public space, and application of emerging technologies that focus on sustainability and liveability.
- Prioritising openness and shared public access and engagement for spaces, buildings, infrastructure and institutions.
Public realm in MID
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Former Women’s Hospital Site Redevelopment
The University of Melbourne will build Australia’s leading innovation precinct on the former Royal Women’s Hospital site on Grattan St in Carlton.The precinct will tackle...
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Urban Ideas Playground Workshop
As part of Melbourne Knowledge Week 2017 the MID partners ran a four day co-design workshop for students, industry, and members of the public to...
![](https://mid.org.au/app/uploads/2019/06/Icon-Public-Realm.png)
Science Gallery
Inspiring and transforming curious minds through the collision of art and science As one of only eight nodes worldwide, Science Gallery Melbourne will be a...
![](https://mid.org.au/app/uploads/2019/06/Icon-Public-Realm.png)
Creative Critical Concerns Studio
This studio focuses on emerging discourses of creative practice in the broad field of Industrial Design and its intersections with art, sociology, architecture, science, and...
![](https://mid.org.au/app/uploads/2019/06/Icon-Public-Realm.png)
Designing Information Environments
This studio, open to students in the Master of Design Innovation and Technology at RMIT, explores the concept of ‘Knowledge Wayfinding’: a blending of knowledge...
![](https://mid.org.au/app/uploads/2019/06/Icon-Public-Realm.png)
VEIL Eco-Acupuncture Studio
The Victorian Eco Innovation Lab (VEIL) has brought together students from the University of Melbourne and RMIT to collaborate on a vision for a sustainable urban...
![](https://mid.org.au/app/uploads/2019/06/Icon-Public-Realm.png)
University of Melbourne Student Precinct
Over the past two decades, the University of Melbourne has experienced significant growth at the Parkville campus with over 40% of the University’s students and...
![](https://mid.org.au/app/uploads/2019/06/Icon-Social-Innovation.png)
Former Women’s Hospital Site Redevelopment
The University of Melbourne will build Australia’s leading innovation precinct on the former Royal Women’s Hospital site on Grattan St in Carlton.The precinct will tackle...
![](https://mid.org.au/app/uploads/2019/06/Icon-Social-Innovation.png)
Creative Critical Concerns Studio
This studio focuses on emerging discourses of creative practice in the broad field of Industrial Design and its intersections with art, sociology, architecture, science, and...
![](https://mid.org.au/app/uploads/2019/06/Icon-Social-Innovation.png)
VEIL Eco-Acupuncture Studio
The Victorian Eco Innovation Lab (VEIL) has brought together students from the University of Melbourne and RMIT to collaborate on a vision for a sustainable urban...
![](https://mid.org.au/app/uploads/2019/06/Icon-Social-Innovation.png)
Urban Ideas Playground Workshop
As part of Melbourne Knowledge Week 2017 the MID partners ran a four day co-design workshop for students, industry, and members of the public to...
![](https://mid.org.au/app/uploads/2019/06/Icon-Social-Innovation.png)
Designing Information Environments
This studio, open to students in the Master of Design Innovation and Technology at RMIT, explores the concept of ‘Knowledge Wayfinding’: a blending of knowledge...
![](https://mid.org.au/app/uploads/2019/06/Icon-Social-Innovation.png)
University of Melbourne Student Precinct
Over the past two decades, the University of Melbourne has experienced significant growth at the Parkville campus with over 40% of the University’s students and...
![](https://mid.org.au/app/uploads/2019/06/Icon-Social-Innovation.png)
Science Gallery
Inspiring and transforming curious minds through the collision of art and science As one of only eight nodes worldwide, Science Gallery Melbourne will be a...