Cityscape | mindscape : an interactive investigation of the spatiality and poetics of the metropolis. This rhizomic mapping will consider urban Melbourne as a city-text: a kaleidoscope of identities, architectural expressions, histories, commentaries, sculptural forms and manifestos. Our imagination grows cities and the resultant cognitive maps are infused with a palimpsest of collected meanings. The megastructure of the city will be sampled, yielding a subset of dynamic and eccentric spaces. The Flash interactive will prototype this network of city experience, feeding off a database of impressions to generate a patchwork miniature, reflecting the nature of mental maps.

	Living in a building site The city as a work in progress.
The archaeological layering of presence A collective of intermeshing communities living on top of one another.		Agents of change Living and making, weaving individual paths, wearing patterns into the bed of marsh and stone, leaving their traces.
Manifestos Ideas of the city. What manifestos have been consulted/derived/passed down through the generations?
	‘THE DECORATIVE MUST BE ABOLISHED? Issues of taste must be transferred from the field of fussy mouldings, finicky capitals and flimsy doorways to the broader concerns of BOLD GROUPINGS AND MASSES, and LARGE-SCALE DISPOSITION OF PLANES? That Futurist architecture is the architecture of calculation, of audacious temerity and of simplicity; the architecture of reinforced concrete, of steel, glass, cardboard, textile fibre That oblique and elliptic lines are dynamic, and by their very nature possess an emotive power a thousand times stronger than perpendiculars and horizontals? EVERY GENERATION MUST BUILD ITS OWN CITY’ (Antonio Sant’Elia 1914)
	OR ‘... in our modern architecture (allegedly "constructed for the human being") man's soul is oppressed. Therefore, the principle behind functional architecture should be rejected. We should instead adopt as the premise for improvement the slum principle, that is, wildly, luxuriantly growing architecture.’ (Friedensreich Hundertwasser , 1958) OR...