Studio brief
Building on the 2024 investigation of the Atherton Gardens Estate, this expanded studio critically examined the Victorian government's plan to demolish all 44 public housing towers under the Big Housing Build. Fifteen students worked across sites in Fitzroy and Prahran with First Nations cultural advisors, integrating climate resilience, Indigenous knowledge systems, alternative housing models, and intergenerational space-making. The studio positions design research as a form of policy advocacy — contesting the erasure of public housing and the displacement of communities who have called these estates home for decades.