020 Week 4 Tutorial - Architectural Purpose I

Our investigation in relation to the issues of the population, led us to a series of further issues that needs addressing. The idea of "affordability &/or accessibility" became a guiding principle in deepening our understanding of what needs to be critically addressed. Under this "umbrella", main issues pertaining to the everyday lives of the population were looked into:-

- infrastructure
- welfare
- food
- children

It was decided that "infrastructure" as a component is ultimately a critical issue to look into as it is able to encompass the various problems associated with having a strong and solid infrastructure as a framework. "Infrastructure" here, could mean a variety of things - social, economy, housing, food supply, transport, etc.

In terms of our MOBILE tutorial theme, we came up with a series of questions that naturally challenges how population and infrastructure needs improvement, and how the parliament can function to address this.

- Is having parliament necessary?
- How does a hypothetical Australian capital city wants to "move" the population?
- Is there a need for members of parliament to fly in & out of the capital city in order to meet and make decisions?

These series of questions then led us to question if it is about managing the density of Australia as a whole. It looked at the importance of Australia as a "body mass" that receives immigrants and asylum-seekers, as well as holiday-makers and international businesses.

How then, would the parliament manage the density of Australia in light of current globalisation where "home" is subjective? Should this form a basis for a hypothetical Australian capital of the future?

~ H