In a Smart City, how will we identify people, organisations and things in the digital realm? How will we decide who, and what, to trust? Will we have choice and agency? Join an expert panel of futurists, designers and creative thinkers exploring 'the Smart City', highlighting barriers and benefits of a future where our identifying documents and objects are digital, sharing facts and fictions around digital identity - something that is likely to affect everyone in the future.
Dec 13, 2019•1 hr 22 min
Listen to this panel discussion about critical issues for our future cities: approaching climate change from a place of positivity. This talk was recorded as part of the Assemble Papers 'Living Closer Together Symposium: Future Legacies' a series of discussions exploring the intersection of design, action and community.
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Listen to this future-focused panel discussion about Smart Cities: what does innovation look like in the 21st century? This talk was recorded as part of the Assemble Papers 'Living Closer Together Symposium: Future Legacies' a series of discussions exploring the intersection of design, action and community.
Dec 10, 2019•59 min
Listen to this future-focused panel discussion about citizen-lead housing projects, as part of the Assemble Papers 'Living Closer Together Symposium: Future Legacies' a series of discussions exploring the intersection of design, action and community.
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Revisit this panel discussion with Amelia Wallin, Edition Office, Mark Feary, Mathieu Briand and Megan Cope, as they investigate the possible guidelines and outcomes for the creation of contemporary art spaces, and explore the important relationship between architects and the contemporary Australian arts ecology: How is a contemporary narrative suggested through architecture and design? What is the significance of this to the community when we don’t all share the same perspective.
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 12 min
Listen to host Peter Maddison in conversation with Glenn Murcutt AO and Naomi Milgrom AO (founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation which commissions each year’s MPavilion)as they discuss Glenn's design for the 2019 edition of MPavilion, his illustrious fifty-year practice, and his most recent and forthcoming projects.
Dec 10, 2019•59 min
In this special presentation podcast for our MPavilion 2019 season, architect Glenn Murcutt AO spoke with Triple R broadcasters Lauren Taylor and Simon Winkler while sitting inside his newly completed pavilion. Glenn explains in poetic detail his design for the 2019 edition of MPavilion. We hear how the surrounding park breathes into this seasonal structure, and how all his works are is in deep dialogue with their environment. We also learn more about the origins of his keen observational skills...
Nov 12, 2019•39 min
Leading the first all-black curatorial team for the 10th Berlin Biennale, Gabi Ngcobo has made international headlines this year, speaking about the importance of revisiting history in our art institutions. This MTalks event, co-presented by the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), brought a lecture by Gabi, the curator and educator titled 'Working with the unknown', which was MUMA's Boiler Room Lecture for 2018. In this talk, Gabi Ngcobo spoke about her collaborative curatorial practice star...
Sep 17, 2019•55 min
What does Indigenising education mean in the built environment? Should we learn about the Indigenous built environment and, if so, what should we learn, and when, how, why and from whom? Hear from current students, graduates, practitioners and educators about the past, present and possibilities for the future of education and its representation of Indigenous perspectives and realities. MPavilion’s second annual BLAKitecture forum brought together Indigenous built environment practitioners on the...
Sep 09, 2019•35 min
What does Indigenising education mean in the built environment? Should we learn about the Indigenous built environment and, if so, what should we learn, and when, how, why and from whom? Hear from current students, graduates, practitioners and educators about the past, present and possibilities for the future of education and its representation of Indigenous perspectives and realities. MPavilion’s second annual BLAKitecture forum brought together Indigenous built environment practitioners on the...
Sep 09, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Many individuals, groups and institutions in Australia now incorporate an acknowledgement of country into official proceedings—a recognition of the Traditional Owners of the land in which people gather, and events take place. But what does that actually mean in practice? In so many ways, architecture and urbanism are invested in ideas of land, and historical conceptions of ownership—be it through force or other means. So, to kick off MPavilion’s 2018 season, we sought to take some time out and t...
Sep 03, 2019•58 min
Explore the different aspects of sound healing and music therapy in this intellectual and spiritual discussion at MPavilion as part of Melbourne Music Week 2018. Hear how music and sound can help improve your physical and mental health, and how sound can induce a state of profound relaxation, meditation, expansion of consciousness and self-healing.
Aug 30, 2019•1 hr 1 min
FOREGROUND brought conversations and storytelling that is usually in the background to the foreground at MPavillion—mapping the intersection between spoken-word, poetry, sound, movement and discussion. One of the uniting aspects of humanity is storytelling. In this performance and discussion, the collective of artists used ritual and space to alchemise history and experience through collective storytelling. The event's intention was to create a playful and safe space for important and meaningful...
Aug 27, 2019•1 hr 15 min
As a wrap-up to the BLAKitecture 2018/19 series, speakers across the fields of architecture, planning, archaeology and design contemplated the good, bag, ugly and inspiring aspects of the season's themes, exploring where the conversation and action should head next. MPavilion’s second annual BLAKitecture forum brought together Indigenous built environment practitioners on the Yaluk-ut Weelam land of the Boon Wurrung people. The forum aimed to centralise Indigenous voices in conversations about a...
Aug 20, 2019•1 hr 22 min
“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck,” said Paul Virilio, yoking together the opportunities and consequences of technological progress. We joined Rory Hyde, co-curator of The Future Starts Here exhibition at the V&A in London, to discover a landscape of possibilities for the future of design. Rory discussed the background to the major 2018 exhibition, which brought together 100 objects ranging from smart appliances and satellites to artificial intelligence and i...
Aug 13, 2019•40 min
Mass attacks in public spaces, pedestrian trauma, gender-based violence... How do we better share our public spaces? Have our safety needs changed, and if so, what do we most immediately need to be addressing? What are the innovative ideas leading the endeavour to keep our cities open to everyone? This panel included Melbourne’s deputy chief resilience officer, Maree Grenfell, architect Orlando Harrison, Zoe Condliffe of XYX Lab and artist Glen Walton.
Aug 06, 2019•52 min
Listen in on a conversation on the changing nature of work over the generations. We spoke with active community member, Marg D’Arcy, as she shared her experiences working in government, not for profit and “grass roots” organisations. Marg is also the mum of Real Life Patron, Beci Orpin.
Jul 30, 2019•56 min
Melbourne is recognised as the world’s most liveable city, and the most intelligent. But what does the city do to remain relevant and maintain these accolades? European cities are seeing river and ocean pools open in the major cities almost monthly; urban farms are activating disused spaces and creating vital services and income to displaced members of the public; and events that encourage wide community participation have been created right across Asia to engage the active millennial traveler a...
Jul 23, 2019•1 hr 9 min
What should cultural heritage encompass? What should be protected—how and why? Spring evening design debates with the Australian Institute of Architects returned to MPavilion during our most recent season of free events. Representatives from the Victorian Chapter of the AIA went head to head on timely and enduring ideas in architecture, including this debate, titled ‘New heritage’. Panellists included Sofie Kvist, Matt Gibson, Tania Davidge, Ross Turnbull and Clare Cousins.
Jul 16, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Spoken-word, poetry, sound, movement and discussion intersect with a line-up of emerging storytellers. Last season’s ‘FOREGROUND’ event brought storytelling styles that are usually in the background to MPavillion with the intention to create a playful and safe space for important and meaningful conversations. Guests included Oscar Key-Sung, Aretha Brown, Jo Pugh, Shannon May Powell, Joshua Lynch, Ichikawaedward, Jonathan Homsey and Jacob Coppedge. Following the performances was a panel discussio...
Jul 09, 2019•1 hr 15 min
Listen to a vital panel conversation interrogating the role of gender in leadership, presented by Collectivity Talks. ‘Leadership and women’ interrogates the attributes of good leadership. Should gender enter the discussion? Why the controversy around quotas? Do female leaders have a responsibility to foster the careers of other women?
Jun 24, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Listen to Sir Peter Cook, internationally influential architect and a founder of avant-garde architectural group Archigram. Sir Peter is Emeritus Professor at University College London, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Frankfurt Staedelschule, with recent works including the construction of his radical Art Museum in Graz, Austria (Kunsthaus). He was in Melbourne to direct an intensive design studio at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Sir Peter joined us at MPavilion in a...
Jun 11, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Join Marie Foulston, the chief curator of videogames at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, in this discussion about the current climate, challenges and changing conversations around exhibiting videogames in museum spaces. The lead curator of the V&A’s ambitious 2018/19 exhibition 'Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt', Marie has championed the social and interactive nature of videogames, interrogating the medium through a design lens. In a feature in the New York Times, Marie said: “People stil...
Jun 04, 2019•1 hr 3 min
What role does public space play in the everyday experience of women and gnc people? In the wake of ongoing deaths and violence, how are we responding and galvanising in public spaces and online? This event was a facilitated discussion and workshop around the ideas of activating spaces, community actions and ensuring the conversation around the right to safety in public continues collectively. To begin, a discussion of complex issues were discussed by a panel providing a range of perspectives: a...
May 29, 2019•1 hr 20 min
Public Art Field Guide 4.6: Vault by MPavilion
May 29, 2019•10 min
Public Art Field Guide 4.5: VCA by MPavilion
May 29, 2019•7 min
Public Art Field Guide 4.4: Spiegeltent by MPavilion
May 29, 2019•6 min
Public Art Field Guide 4.2: Ritual by MPavilion
May 29, 2019•11 min
Public Art Field Guide 4.3: Wild Australia Tour by MPavilion
May 29, 2019•3 min
Public Art Field Guide 2.6: Testing Grounds by MPavilion
May 21, 2019•5 min
