The opening of All Zone’s colourful temporary pavilion at Queen Victoria Gardens came with it a comparably vibrant program of talks, live music events and workshops. ArchitectureAU rounds up the top architecture and design events to explore from 1 February to 6 April.
Mtalks BLACKitecture: Material Agency.
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Jon Clements
BLAKitecture: Material Agency
Monday 6 February, 6:30 pm–7:30 pm
MPavilion’s sixth annual BLAKitecture forum brings into focus Indigenous voices in a conversation about architecture, considering how the application of materials in the built environment contributes to the commodification of Country. In collaboration with program consultant Sarah Lynn Rees, this MTalk will consider the ability of materials to embed culture and knowledge, and suggest how Australian architecture might move to a regenerative model of consumption. More here.
MTalks Labour in Architecture: The Future of the Profession.
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Courtesy of Architectural Workers – United Voices of the World (UVW SAW)
Labour in Architecture: The Future of the Profession
Tuesday 4 April, 6:30 pm– 8 pm
In collaboration with Matthew Borg (OVGA), Rory Hyde (University of Melbourne), and Professional Architects Australia, this talk look at how the industry can move forward to an empowered, future-proof profession. The panel considers the historically exploitative workplace culture in architecture and related design fields, where “passion” is used to rationalise underpayment and overworking. In light of emerging movements around the world to counter the worsening plight of architectural workers, Professional Architects Australia presents a talk between local and international practitioners, advocates and academics. Guest speakers will open the conversation to the audience to share their experience. More here.
MTalks Future Homes: Melbourne’s Liveable Apartments.
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Illustration by Board Grove Architects
Future Homes: Melbourne’s Liveable Apartments
Tuesday 28 March, 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Presented by the Office of the Victorian Government Architect with Andrew Mackenzie (Uro Publications), this talk examines the Victorian government’s Future Homes initiative for family-friendly homes that enable ageing in place. Th initiative incorporates high-quality, liveable, and sustainable design principles into housing models that will be rolled out through pilot councils across Melbourne. Exemplar designs by four architecture firms – appointed through a competition launched in 2020 – are now released for public consideration and available for public purchase now. More here.
MTalks Propelling or Pathological? Heritage in Urban Design.
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Derek Swalwell
Propelling or Pathological? Heritage in Urban Design
Tuesday 6 April, 5:30pm–6:30pm
Kerstin Thompson (Kerstin Thompson Architects) has curated a panel discussion with Christine Phillips (RMIT), Dan Hill (Melbourne School of Design) and Felicity Watson (Wyndham City Council), facilitated by Stuart Harrison (Harrison and White, and host of Restoration Australia), that will consider our built heritage and how it can be interlinked with urban design imperatives and opportunities. Thompson’s practice, along with BVN, received the 2022 Urban Design Award at the Melbourne Awards for Queen and Collins. In this talk Thompson poses the question, what might it be like to have the spheres of heritage and urban design more productively entangled. More here.
MMeets Experimental Architectural Writing.
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Les Anderson via Unsplash
Experimental Architectural Writing
Wednesday 22 March, 6:30 pm–7:30 pm
This MMeets workshop facilitated by Anna Kate Blair (Writers Victoria) explores how language can expand our relationship with architecture. The workshop will experiment with a range of creative literary techniques and strategies to expand your architectural knowledge and literary practice. Emphasising process over product, this workshop invites participants to look at a history of imaginative responses to architecture, and to share their own ideas and experiments. More here.
MTalks The Afterlife of Concrete
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The Afterlife of Concrete
Tuesday 21 February, 6.30 pm—7.30 pm
Concrete is currently the largest contributor to construction and demolition waste in Victoria. In this talk, architects and landscape architects encourage audiences to think outside of the knock-down-and-rebuild model to think differently about how we value existing materials. Architecture Media’s Emily Wong (Landscape Architecture Australia) joins Millie Cattlin, Runjia Chen and Amy Seo and Shahar Cohen of Second Edition for a deep-dive into the process of demolishing and recycling concrete, offering insights in how we might use concrete in more creative and sustainable ways. More here.
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