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Melbourne 3
CYCLE 02 – 2023

Flatpack : Repacked

Flatpack : Repacked

Long Story, Short

An investigation into how students living in Melbourne's City North furnish their apartments, and the opportunities to minimise waste and potential to rethink furniture lifecycles.

What We’re Exploring

‘Flatpack Repacked’ aims to provide solutions to hard rubbish waste by investigating the lifecycle of furniture in high-turnover, city-based student accommodation. By determining the mechanisms and motivations that shape the purchasing and disposing of furniture in urban settings, this research will advise short- and long-term interventions based on the 4Rs of a circular economy – reduce, reuse, recycle and remove. The project will include piloting an intervention to determine its potential function within the circular economy model.

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Project Team

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Luke Gebert

RMIT PlaceLab Research Assistant

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Cherese Sonkkila

RMIT PlaceLab Research Assistant

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Eloise Leopold

RMIT PlaceLab Research Assistant

Project and Local Contributors
Bonnie Shaw
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Event
02.03.2023 – 18.08.2023

Living Together Series Premiere

RMIT PlaceLab acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the Eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University.

RMIT PlaceLab respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present, as the original and continuing Makers of Place.

Brunswick 3
Early 2023

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