We are thrilled to join with Housing Choices Australia for the 2020 Oswald Barnett Oration. Listen back to this talk, with speakers from government, planning and property sectors. Our panel this year is expert, diverse and opinionated but they share a common goal; to dramatically improve the housing opportunities of people in need, in the city fast becoming the growth capital of the nation, Melbourne. Moderator: Journalist and lead moderator with the Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership, Peter...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Listen back to this discussion with Simona Castricum around the theme 'What is home'. This talk was presented as part of a 5-day long program exploring 'Who we are together, and what is home?', with talks and workshops supported by RACV. Simona Castricum is an architecture academic, musician and designer from Melbourne. As an educator and PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, her work explores gender nonconforming and queer intersections in architecture, the city and public space. Simona...
Feb 17, 2020•28 min
Listen back to this discussion with Andy Fergus, Alexis Kalagas and Katherine Sundermann around the theme 'What is home'. This talk was presented as part of a 5-day long program exploring 'Who we are together, and what is home?', with talks and workshops supported by RACV. Andy Fergus is an urban design critic, commentator and practitioner. Andy is a design advocate at City of Melbourne, co-director of Melbourne Architours and Studio Lead at Melbourne School of Design. Through these roles Andy i...
Feb 17, 2020•52 min
Listen back on this keynote speech from the Royal College of Art's Tarsha Finney, on 'Domesticity: I am trapped'. This talk was presented as part of a 5-day long program exploring 'Who we are together, and what is home?', with talks and workshops supported by RACV. Dr Tarsha Finney is an architectural urbanist, senior research tutor and program lead on the City Design MA, School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art. Previously she was visiting professor in the School of Architecture at th...
Feb 17, 2020•49 min
In his recent documentary ‘2040’, speaking of the changes we’ll all need to make if we’re to save the planet, Damon Gameau says ‘transitions are awkward.’ If this is so, and we need to make a ton of them to survive, how do we help each other make them? What are the benefits of change? Why, and how, do we find it uncomfortable? How can we more openly approach it? Look back on this MTalks session, with educator-artist Kate Ellis and a panel comprising artists yoga teacher Lucienne Shanti; writer a...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 11 min
Listen back to this talk from Global Gardens of Peace as they lead a highly engaging workshop of exploring perceptions, thoughts and attitudes. Can landscape design activate cultural and social transformation? Can we create landscapes that have profound positive impacts on people’s lives? Explore new landscapes and ideas that will open the way you think about the land around you.
Feb 17, 2020•39 min
Your health is not usually the first consideration when choosing a new postcode, however where you live is increasingly recognised as a key determinant for your health and wellbeing. While the connection between health outcomes, planning and design is increasingly acknowledged, the role of the planning system to implement public health policy remains largely unexplored. This raises the question: how can the planning system be used as a tool for public health policy? Revisit this MTalks session, ...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 12 min
In February we welcomed the razor-sharp team from The Conversation for a very special MPavilion Book Club session. Listen back to this podcast to hear from Arts + Culture editor Suzy Freeman-Greene as she leads a discussion about the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, Richard Powers’ grand novel The Overstory, joined by Kathryn Williams, professor of environmental psychology at the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences at the University of Melbourne. The Conversation is an independent sou...
Feb 17, 2020•59 min
Revisit this conversation with Ross Harding and Joost Bakker moderated by Tasmin O'Neill, as part of the Green Magazine weekend of programming on Saturday 1 Feb. Ross Harding's organisation Finding Infinity is dedicated transforming our cities from consumers to producers, will discuss how Melbourne can transition to become self-sufficient by 2030 by connecting technology with culture. Joost Bakker, an environmental activist and florist, who discusses the scourge of greenwashing and challenges li...
Feb 17, 2020•57 min
What are the challenges that face Melbourne’s night time creative economy? Look back on this interdisciplinary panel discussion, reflecting on the macro and micro pressures that face Melbourne’s night time creative spaces. Hear from representatives from the environment, government, and academic sectors on the role of spatial planning in the life cycle of these spaces, and how design can mitigate the impacts of night time activity, while ensuring night spaces are safe and inclusive. The discussio...
Feb 17, 2020•58 min
When asked what needs to change in order for the process of architecture to be more meaningful and respectful of Indigenous peoples, a common answer is time. Time to undertake proper engagement processes. This forum will explore the concept of deep listening and what it means for the built environment. MPavilion’s third annual BLAKitecture forum brings together Indigenous built environment practitioners on the Yaluk-ut Weelam land of the Boon Wurrung people. The forum aims to centralise Indigeno...
Jan 28, 2020•55 min
Join Sophie from Green Fleet, Kylie Lewis from Of Kin, Vanessa Petrie from Beyond Zero Emissions, Luke Taylor from the Sustainable Living Foundation to discuss what we can do in the face of the climate crisis. Powered by bicycles, the Climate Emergency Cinema invites you to experience a series of outdoor films at MPavilion celebrating the urgent grassroots action around climate change. Co-curated by the Transitions Film Festival and the Little Projector Company, the curated program of short film...
Jan 28, 2020•33 min
Revisit the second MPavilion book club of the season, with thoughts from Cher Tan, Jaclyn Crupi, Bridget Caldwell, Chris Somerville and Justine Hyde, who’ll each reflect on one of the five shortlisted titles: Act of Grace by Anna Krien, Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas, Simpson Returns by Wayne Macauley, The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab and The Yield by Tara June Winch.
Jan 28, 2020•56 min
Revisit this MTalks exploring storytelling processes and speculating about how architecture, a form of storytelling in itself, can contribute to and work in harmony with Indigenous understandings of Country. Our interpretation of the world we live in is communicated through stories and narratives. We can’t separate ourselves from these stories in the same way we can from data and science. This process of storytelling engenders empathy and equality with everything in our environment. MPavilion’s ...
Jan 28, 2020•1 hr 17 min
The notion of neurodiversity—the breadth and difference in the ways we relate to our environments—raises a number of questions for spatial designers. How do different sensory modes enhance our understanding of the world? What approaches can designers use to engage with these diverse experiences, and how can this lead to more inclusive, higher-quality spatial environments? Revisit this panel discussion from a diverse group of Monash University researchers and designers, including MADA’s Dr Chris ...
Jan 16, 2020•1 hr 21 min
Light is a crucial part of how we experience our surroundings, and lighting design brings this element into our homes, cities and shared spaces in particular ways. At its best, it can help us feel safe, empowered, convivial or enchanted; at its worst, it can engender unease or discomfort. But how can we better understand the ways in which light configures our worlds? And what do lighting designers, metropolitan authorities and city dwellers need to know about light and lighting to support our sh...
Jan 15, 2020•1 hr
Guerrilla gardening. Housing equality activism. Mural art. Revisit this panel discussion exploring the various forms of subtle urban subversion being performed by young people in and around Melbourne. This event was facilitated by Rachel Iampolski, Phd candidate at RMIT with research into intangible cultural heritage in urban spaces, and University of Melbourne design anthropology student Zane Pinyon. It is part of our youth expressions of interest, engaging collaborators aged 15–25. This event ...
Jan 15, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Look back at this Q&A after the screening of Set the Tone: an online talk show conceived by Adier Maluk, Angeth Malual, Adior Deng and Yar Biar, young Australian women of South Sudanese descent driven to create a platform that speaks to them and their peers. The show is about shifting up the conversation, opening up points of view and challenging the status quo, creating a platform for young women from the African diaspora to deep dive into the issues that matter to them and challenge assump...
Jan 14, 2020•30 min
Has technology caused us to lose the art of connection? Is loneliness a modern pandemic? If so, how do we cure it? How can we better reconnect? LIsten back to this very special Night of Better Conversation hosted by the much-loved School of Life, with friendly discussion about making friends and building relationships, and an exploration of the current state of connection. How can our failures make us more interesting, and our vulnerabilities more appealing? How do we overcome shyness and connec...
Jan 10, 2020•38 min
Dive into this thought provoking podcast hosted by artist Eugenia Lim with leading thinkers and advocates from across the fields of labour and industrial relations, gig workers’ rights and the arts. This panel explores working in the digital age, and the impact of the gig economy on our relationships, rights, creativity and bodies. Speakers include Sarah Kaine, Associate Professor, School of Business, UTS; artist and performance maker Roshelle Fong; and former Foodora worker Josh Klooger.
Jan 10, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Revisit this 2-part discussion of how Melbourne is providing more open space for its growing population from micro and macro levels: first a case study of the newly opened Prahran Square, a $62M development undertaken by the City of Stonnington to transform a run-down car park into public open space, followed by a broader look at how Melbourne property leaders are incorporating open spaces into their developments and how it’s shaping our society. This event was presented by AECOM.
Jan 10, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Listen back to this talk, as guests Sui Zhen (Becky Freeman), Alicia Sometimes and Paul Gorrie address the theme Connection: Instruments of Harmonious Living—What does it mean to be human in connection with other humans and in connection with the universe?
Dec 13, 2019•1 hr 5 min
How can we create this positive change together? How can we totally reimagine the development industry to realise its soft skills and human obligations to our growing population? Small Giants Developments brings together an array of perspectives that are bound by their intention to re-imagine how we live together. This panel conversation explores a future where developments are facilitators of vibrant, nurturing, accessible communities. Small Giants Developments and friends investigate why devel...
Dec 13, 2019•46 min
We’ve all felt lonely at some stage, whether in a fleeting or ongoing capacity—it’s part of the human experience. Even so, why do many of us feel more isolated than ever, despite our unprecedented technological connectedness? And why are these feelings still so heavily stigmatised? Listen to this panel of experts and social-change pioneers discuss loneliness and explore what we can do to combat its measurable increase in our communities.
Dec 13, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Cross-cultural design often requires a set of protocols to maintain respect throughout the design process. What are these protocols from Indigenous perspective and how can they be embedded in the way we create the built environment? MPavilion’s third annual BLAKitecture forum brings 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 architecture, the representation of h...
Dec 13, 2019•57 min
What is it like to paint a famous face? What relationship is formed between artist and sitter? And how does a painting go from blank canvas to winning the coveted Archibald Prize? Listen back to Archibald Prize 2019 winner Tony Costa and his subject, the renowned painter and sculptor Lindy Lee, for a deep dive into the artist studio.
Dec 13, 2019•33 min
Listen back to this interesting discussion with Art Gallery of NSW director Michael Brand, ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott, and Archibald Prize 2016 winner Louise Hearman on the Prize’s place in global art economies and what winning the Prize means in real terms for an artist’s career.
Dec 13, 2019•40 min
Narrm/Melbourne, editor and writer Sally Olds and Kōtare (fka DJ Sezzo) present the 88th WRITING & CONCEPTS talk reflection on texts contemplating the liminal space of queer expression and sensory experience within club culture. WRITING & CONCEPTS is a lecture and publication series exploring the insights that visual arts practitioners have in to their own creative and cultural practices, and provides an opportunity for them to discuss and publish these insights in a public forum. Contri...
Dec 13, 2019•55 min
The ‘Australian Dream’ of a freestanding house on a quarter-acre block was popularised in the 1950s and iconised by Howard Arkley in Suburban Home (1993). However, for many people, that dream is no longer affordable, sustainable nor capable of supporting contemporary households. This panel looks at alternative models of housing that either provide, or have potential to provide, meaningful additions to a necessarily diversifying residential landscape. Having consideration for affordability, inclu...
Dec 13, 2019•1 hr 18 min
In 2019 the Louvre Pyramid by Chinese-American architect I.M Pei turned thirty. Designed as a contemporary art installation, the pyramid is nowadays a landmark of the Parisian museum—but it was also one of the most controversial cultural projects of François Mitterrand’s presidency. Since, the Louvre Pyramid has been accepted and embraced, and now houses art installations that look back on this controversial birth and refresh its myth. This talk welcomed Ludovic Laugier — curator in the Departme...
Dec 13, 2019•1 hr 2 min
