“OUTR is a network of professionals from RMIT University in Melbourne that utilize research as a focus for design practice.
OUTR understands design practice as an agent of cultural change within an increasingly complex cosmopolitan world.
Our research endeavors to assist in the emergence of design opportunities specialising on the topics of expanded field, urban environments and advanced technologies. The expanded field deals with issues of ethics and sustainability, regimes of care, art and public space, social needs and the ephemeral. Urban environments focus our concerns of precedent, type and the pragmatics of infrastructure and urban scale, including civic consciousness and hence civic narratives. Advanced technologies deals with the pursuit of rule generated processes in design that allow for the utilization of new digital and biological technologies. Our network of designers reveal a diverse background of Landscape Architects, Architects, Urban Planning, exhibition design, spatial analysis, brief formation, programming, project management and academic development, however as a research laboratory our common language is Landscape Architecture, Architecture and Urbanism.”