We're changing direction, FBE Society here we come!

Okay, it seems we’ve hit a bit of a bump in the road on the way to establishing the UNSW designer Collective. We basically have no means of bringing together the COFA & FBE design student communities, basically because the FBE doesn’t currently have a student community (other than OOPS, which doesn’t involve non-planning students).. Despite our continued efforts to kick-start a community at the FBE we have been met with little success, leading us to realise just how much hard work bringing Architectural Computing, Architecture Studies, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Industrial Design and Planning students together is actually going to be. We don't know exactly why it is so difficult; it might be the lack of community space (student lounge/kitchen!) OR the need for more cross disciplines events within the FBE, whatever it is we are determined to fix it (we’re even talking to the faculty about it)!

Now that you understand the amount of work facing us, imagine also trying to include the geographically distant COFA into the picture! Too much hard work for such a small group of enthusiastic individuals interested in making a difference (they know who they are ;)! This is why we have decided to modify our heading away from a united UNSW design student community towards a united FBE community, called the FBE Society, instead. Our aims & goals will remain mostly the same, with the obvious exclusion of the integration of the COFA community (although COFA students are still more than welcome to join). This change of direction will allow us to run more relevant events to FBE kids, hopefully making the idea of a united design student community a lot more attractive for everyone.

Since we are starting anew, it would be great if you could support our push to establish an FBE Society by suggesting how you'd like to see an FBE Society run, what events you'd like to see us host (built environment trivia nights, FBE pub-crawl?) and what kind of initiatives you'd like to see us support. You can do this by commenting below this post.

Finally, we'd like to thank everyone who has supported us so far and hope that this change will make it easier for us to make the FBE a much more interesting place for everyone! We've set up a facebook for the fbe society, so if you're interested then make sure you join ;)

Stay tuned,
Jeremiasz Sieczko