Bendigo TAFE Campus Revitalization, Bendigo, Victoria
Built on the land of the Dja Dja Wurrung and the Taungurung peoples of the Kulin nation
SBLA Studio Landscape Architecture and Urban Design in collaboration with Architectus (principal consultant) and Six Degrees Architects
isit many TAFEs in regional Australia and you will see the impact of sporadic investment in collections of buildings that sometimes amount to campuses. Often built with good bones in the early or mid-twentieth century, these buildings faced decades of underinvestment and misplaced “quick-fix” additions that created maze-like experiences and made the actual activity taking place inside hard to find. This is exactly at odds with the important role that TAFE can play in our communities, supporting people from a range of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds to access learning and training that will set them up for life. How do more vulnerable community members have opportunities to engage with TAFE if the campus doesn’t speak to them, and the learning and training opportunities are
