CitySwitch is a international exchange framework for young urban professionals in Australia, Japan and other countries.

'City-switching' involves intensive transfer of knowledge and people between two countries about two cities in order to cross-illuminate new ideas for issues such as urban density and sprawl.

The CitySwitch model of urban research focuses around locally-based intensive design workshops with foreign guest catalysts.

Each workshop develops physical proposals to local issues in that city, e.g. large scale installations, demonstrations etc, while bridging transnational urbanism questions through comparative discourse.

The pixel.nest pavilion will play the central symbolic role for each workshop, acting as a receptor for digital projections and a host architecture for parties and events. It will be installed in a plaza or gallery in each city, enabling interaction with the general public.

The CitySwitch workshops are to be held in cities around the world, launching in 2008 in Izumo in Japan with participants from UTS in Sydney.

To date, the CitySwitch program has hosted 3 Japanese Architects to Australia for research collaboration and lectures, and 5 young Australian architects have travelled to Japan, with the aim of developing professional networks in the architecture and design fields.

CitySwitch is supported by :

Australia-Japan Foundation