Eco-Cubby: footprint on the world

A great weekend

A cubby was made @ the Regional Victoria Living Festival - much fun was had!

images by Sarah Bell

Regional Victoria Living Expo

Eco-Cubby will be holding a workshop at the Regional Victoria Living Expo

A free event held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre on the 28th and 29th April - COME ON DOWN!

2012 Schools are up and running

After a very successful exhibition and launch we are up and running for 2012. We are very excited to be working with such interesting and experienced architects (be sure to check out their profiles here)

Eco-Cubby 2012 launched by Cr Cathy Oke (students from Victorian College for the Deaf in foreground).

Mishel Lowndes, Director Ripponlea Kindergarten and Architect Juliet Moore 2011 Eco-Cubby participants speak to the incoming teachers about their project.

our 2012 group

2012 Eco-Cubby schools and architects announced

We are very excited to announce the following Schools and Architects for the 2012 program: (School and architect pairings will be announced at the Eco-Cubby official Launch 11am, 17th February 2012 @ ArtPlay as part of the Sustainable Living Festival)

SCHOOLS

Camp Hill Primary School - Bendigo

Clayton South Primary School - Clayton South

Colbinabbin Primary School - Colbinabbin

The Farmhouse Bush Kinder - Mansfield

Goongerah primary school - Goongerah

Mallacoota P-12 College - Mallacoota

Tarwin Lower Primary School - Tarwin Lower

Wangaratta District Specialist School - Wangaratta

Warringa Park School - Hoppers Crossing

Wooranna Park Primary School - Dandenong North

ARCHITECTS

Karl Baumann - Karl Baumann Architecture

Ammon Beyerle & Michelle James - here studio

Tonique Bolt

Gerard Brandrick - Brandrick

Emilio Fuscaldo - Nest Architects

Fiona Gray - Soul Dwellings

Anthony Lake & Angus McKay - Slap Architects

Harriet Stone

Charlotte Lindsay (Building Designer) - Charlotte Lindsay Design / Earth Structures

Sunny Wilder - Timbertrip

Mansfield Primary School - 2009

Creswick North Primary School - 2010

Gowrie Victoria - 2011

Architect Expressions of interest for 2012 Eco-Cubby program

Expressions of interest are now open for the 2012 Program. Please email us on:

eco-cubby@rav.net.au

for more info and application forms

CLOSING DATE - 5PM 9TH DECEMBER 2011

Architect Fiona Lew from BENT Architecture demonstrates light and shade to children at Berwick Fields Primary School (Eco-Cubby 2010 Participants)

Step Up! Step Up! Eco-Cubby at the Royal Melbourne Show!

Phew! After a very busy but equally wonderful 10-day stint at the Royal Melbourne Show, we've finally found a spare moment to share with you all what a great time we had.

Assisted by a dedicated volunteer team and with some very skilled Eco-Cubby designs being built (including the Eco-Cubby-Ark and Eco-Cubby-Circus), I think it's a safe bet to say that this year may have been our best year at the Show yet!

Have a look below to see what we go up to...

Cubbies in progress...

Team effort!

Can you spot the retractable roof?

Happy designers with the finished Eco-Cubby!

Our lovely volunteer Architect Mani with her Eco-Cubby Circus

Some of the fantastic Eco-Cubby gang - L-R Hannah, Leona, Mani and Emily

 

Design and finished cubby!

The Eco-Cubby-Ark!

 

A BIG thank you to our fabulous volunteer team, and everyone who attend the Eco-Cubby workshops at the Show! It was a huge success and we can't wait to see you all there again next year for some more Eco-Cubby fun!

State of Design Festival happenings

Eco-Cubby had a lot of fun at the festival. We hosted 4 workshops over the weekend at Design:Made:Trade. We were very busy and were quite astounded by the design savvy kids who participated in the workshops.

One family had done some serious preparation in anticipation of working with an architect to help design their cubby. They brought in their ipad to show pictures of their proposed cubby site in their backyard, they had done comprehensive sight analysis, had precise site measurements and had done some design sketches. The children were then able to discuss things with our volunteer Architect Pippa Howard and then created a fantastic model. The family will be building the cubby in the near future. How's that for pro active!

Edwards Moore // Ripponlea Kindergarten // State of Design Festival

Working in collaboration with the children at Ripponlea Kindergarten, Juliet Moore from Edwards Moore has translated the children's drawings, experiments and design investigations into a SENSATIONAL interactive, movable cubby design (christened 'eek oh cubby').We are excited to see how the children work together to create their scale models.

Edwards Moore has also designed the stalls for this year’s Design:Made:Trade exhibition for the State of Design Festival. Check out the Edwards Moore website for more interesting projects.

Eco-Cubby is excited to be part of the State of Design Festival. We will be providing workshops at Design:Made:Trade on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th July. For more information and bookings, go to the State of Design Festival Website.

(Secretly we feel as though Juliet made the stalls just for us!)

Children from Ripponlea Kindergarten with thier favourite cubby...a cardboard box! (Image courtesy of Architect: Juliet Moore | Edwards Moore).

TOP image: Ripponlea Kindergarten's eek oh cubby - movable cubby design. (Image courtesy of Architect: Juliet Moore | Edwards Moore).

Listen up

Listen here for our recent interview on the Radio National By Design program.

Radio National [Eco-Cubby on air]

Eco-Cubby Project Coordinator Kelly Boucher will be interviewed on Radio National's By Design program on Wednesday 22nd June @ 3.15pm [repeated on Saturday 25th June @ 9am]

Tune in...or go to the Radio National WEBSITE to listen via podcast.