'Ecoversity' is a word Imagine The Future Inc invented to mean a place where we explore and exchange ideas from which we'll build sustainable societies.

The physical ecoversity space in the head office of the Australian Conservation Foundation, Melbourne, as it was in 1993. This fitout represents one of the earliest attempts by an environment group to use the most ecologically benign materials available. For more photos see Building the world's first ecoversity.

The physical structure was designed and constructed in 1992, within the Australian Conservation Foundation's head office building in inner-city Fitzroy, Melbourne, with seed-funding from our first sponsor.

When ACF moved from its Fitzroy building to a new more ecologically sustainable office in the 60L green building, Carlton, some of ITF's ecoversity fittings were acquired by Museum Victoria, some were put on exhibition in the School of Social Science and Planning at RMIT University, and a recycled timber table was included in ACF's new office as a reference to its relationship with Imagine The Future Inc.

ECOVERSITY EVENTS

Many seasons of sustainability forums were conducted in the Fitzroy space until 1996 when the ecoversity reached out to the broader community with What's good urban design? in St Kilda and Re-imagining your neighbourhood in western Melbourne. In the late nineties ITF went virtual with its bioregional futures project, Redreaming the plains; and in 2001 went global with a workshop on rehabilitating the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary.

ITF's internet projects and our international work now take the ecoversity concept into a new century.