The Light Catcher pavilion designed by Venice firm Map Studio will play host to the longest ever MPavilion season, the Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced.
The first season back in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens since the pandemic, starting 2 December, will feature more than 500 guests from across Australia and around the world, including some big names in architecture.
Francesco Magnani and Traudy Pelzel from Map Studio will discuss their pavilion design in conversation with architect and Grand Designs Australia presenter Peter Maddison, while a host of other firms will be represented, including Sean Godsell Architects, MVRDV (Netherlands), Snøhetta (Norway), SO – IL (USA), UN Studio (Netherlands) and Zaha Hadid Architects (UK).
The program also includes the fifth outing of BLAKitecture: The Manifesto, a three-day forum on Indigenous architecture. The forum will focus on education, asking the question: “As architecture curriculum changes, how can the wisdom of Indigenous culture become a mandatory part of university education?”
The MPavilion staff uniform by Erik Yvon.
Outside of architecture, there will be the Melbourne launch of Skywhalepapa, Patricia Piccinini’s newest giant hot-air-balloon sculpture, fashion shows, and a series of talks and DJ sessions that celebrate the nightclub as a space for culture, design and expression.
The program begins with online events in November, before the in-real-life events begin in December.
“Following two years of uncertainty, MPavilion 2021 provides an optimistic beacon of post-pandemic recovery for the creative life of our city,” said Naomi Milgrom.
“Map studio’s MPavilion will bring the community together and renew connection in a safe environment for our first season back in the Queen Victoria Gardens … The diversity of this year’s program promises to reinvigorate the dialogue between Melbourne and the rest of the world.”
Along with the program, the Naomi Milgrom Foundation also revealed the designs for the MPavilion furniture and staff uniforms. Melbourne’s Nüüd Studio, led by designers Bradley Mitchell and Kerli Valk, won the chair commission with their design for a yellow bench-type seat dubbed The Dancer. In collaboration with Melbourne’s MUSK Architecture Studio, Castlemaine-based furniture design studio Like Butter has designed a periscope-inspired feature seating installation, which will be seen at the MPavilion in January. And Melbourne-based fashion designer Erik Yvon has designed this year’s staff uniform, drawing inspiration from his Mauritian heritage and the November program theme “Island Life.”
See the program here.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
