GGAA 2013 - Learning & Teaching - RMIT University - Finalist

The Matter of Landscape: Sustainable design strategies for RMIT City Campus

A series of complimentary project-based teaching and learning initiatives across the RMIT Landscape Architecture programme has provided an opportunity to showcase how RMIT is transforming its built environment through innovative and sustainable design.

A series of complimentary project-based teaching and learning initiatives across the RMIT Landscape Architecture programme has provided an opportunity to showcase how RMIT is transforming its built environment through innovative and sustainable design. This project primarily involves designing, developing and evaluating green roofs for RMIT city campuses as a way of demonstrating best practice sustainable design in the city of Melbourne. RMIT’s Leadership as a living laboratory and its fostering and nurturing of external stakeholders, industry engagement, and internal cross-disciplinary and departmental engagement ensured the multi-talent outcomes of this project.