Poetry and beekeeping finally came together in this wonderful event, seeing creative beekeeping practice Honey Fingers debut his poetry anthology—titled Sparrows in the Supermarket—with selected readings and a honey-themed grazing table. Honey Fingers is more than an urban beekeeping network—beekeeping is a wonderful and often mindful look into the natural world that exists in our urban environment. Beekeeping cultivates quiet observations of biological systems, the human community that lives in...
Jul 07, 2020•19 min
Listen back to this artist talk with Yen Chou, Artistic Director of VM Studio + Very Theatre (狠主流 & 狠劇場) and Edwin Kemp Attrill, Artistic Director of ActNow Theatre about merging their artistic practices for Virtual Intimacy. The Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts—or Asia TOPA—settles into MPavilion for an action-packed month-long residency from Thursday 20 February to Sunday 15 March. Each day of the residency, talented and multidisciplinary guests from Asia TOPA’s international rost...
Jul 07, 2020•57 min
This podcast from early 2020 explores the potential of technology-driven approaches to drive innovation in the area of healthcare architecture, design and research. Virtual Reality (VR) is an emerging and rapidly developing technology that can be used as a powerful method to engage end-users in healthcare and design projects. It is well suited for projects aiming to design human-centered spaces, which contribute to positive outcomes and user experience. The topics for this session are drawn from...
Jul 07, 2020•18 min
Listen back as Takao Kawaguchi, Linda Sastradipradja and Amaara Raheem join in conversation with Dr Philipa Rothfield and Dr Priya Srinivasan. This conversation interrogates the politics of taste; in particular the politics of arts ecologies that define questions of aesthetic value and the systems that support them. In particular, we ask what it means to be a practitioner of “traditional” art forms in a landscape that privileges “the contemporary” and how taste can be thought to be hegemonic. Wh...
Jul 07, 2020•58 min
Listen back us as Parlour—an organisation advocating for gender equity and increased representation in architecture—hosts an informal conversation between Hélène Frichot, Professor of Architecture & Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor of Design at the University of Melbourne, and Charity Edwards, founder of The Afterlives of Cities research collective and lecturer at Monash University. Casual and welcoming, the Parlour Summer Salon is an opportunity to connect with many of the women acti...
Jul 07, 2020•1 hr 10 min
"Free admission is not enough, we need to do more... it means we have to go with art to the people." —Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator at the Serpentine Gallery in London, in conversation with Victoria Lynn, Director of TarraWarra Museum of Art Essential listening for anyone interested in art, curation and culture: Hans Ulrich Obrist spoke in early May with Victoria Lynn about what a building without walls can do for bringing art to the community. Exploring experimentation, conversation marathons, ho...
May 04, 2020•46 min
Storytelling has been at the heart of every culture since the dawn of humankind. It’s how we’ve sought to make sense of who we are and how we interact with the world around us. From rock walls and campfires to theatres and dinner tables, the platforms for our storytelling have been as varied as the yarns themselves. As we find ourselves deeper and deeper in the digital age, our natural inclination to process experience through storytelling can be challenged. In this interactive workshop, the tea...
Mar 20, 2020•42 min
This facilitated conversation and interactive workshop asks: Why is Australia not seeing a tidal rise of young women, and women of colour, rising up in politics? This event brought together a range of perspectives, from youth activists, the Melbourne School of Government, Democracy in Colour, artists, and designers who specialise in systems re-design, to talk through some of the road blocks and what can be done to create better political systems that speak to and for women. The audience was then...
Mar 20, 2020•39 min
Bring your lunch and your curiosity and listen back to this picnic conversation. Facilitated by Singapore-born artist Jamie Lewis, and joined by table hosts from a range of artistic, cultural and professional backgrounds, prod at the boundaries of the multiplicity of the ‘Asian-Australian’ narrative. The Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts—or Asia TOPA—settles into MPavilion for an action-packed month-long residency from Thursday 20 February to Sunday 15 March. Each day of the residency, t...
Mar 20, 2020•55 min
For the final instalment of the Wednesday Assembly series, we were joined by South Sudanese Australian musician Ajak Kwai, broadcaster, producer and writer Namila Benson, and Dr Vicki Couzens. Simon, Ajak and Namila discuss MPavilion’s March theme — Knowledge: Shared Learning, Shared Power. Lauren Taylor and Simon Winkler, hosts of 3RRR’s Breaking & Entering, record a special podcast each month, with guests including inventive artists, musicians and creatives. Over four nights throughout the...
Mar 20, 2020•53 min
Listen back to this talk with Takao Kawaguchi, Linda Sastradipradja and Amaara Raheem in conversation with Dr Philipa Rothfield and Dr Priya Srinivasan. This conversation interrogates the politics of taste; in particular the politics of arts ecologies that define questions of aesthetic value and the systems that support them. In particular, they ask what it means to be a practitioner of “traditional” art forms in a landscape that privileges “the contemporary” and how taste can be thought to be h...
Mar 20, 2020•58 min
This talk explores the potential of technology-driven approaches to drive innovation in the area of healthcare architecture, design and research. Virtual Reality (VR) is an emerging and rapidly developing technology that can be used as a powerful method to engage end-users in healthcare and design projects. It is well suited for projects aiming to design human-centred spaces, which contribute to positive outcomes and user experience. The topics for this session are drawn from the New and Optimis...
Mar 20, 2020•18 min
The either / oar sailboat docked at MPavilion for a special Friday sunset series, with DJs and discussion. Listen back to our panel discussing the deep relationship we have with ‘place’ and exploring how place is simultaneously reconciling the past, the present and the future. Consider what is it that ties you to place, and how that relationship has changed with time. Unravelling the knots of a fishing net, our panellists untie how our experiences, ideas, memories and feelings come together to t...
Mar 10, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Join us for this talk with Show Director Tuan Le and Musical Director Nhat Ly in relation to À Ố LÀNG PHỐ. The Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts—or Asia TOPA—settles into MPavilion for an action-packed month-long residency from Thursday 20 February to Sunday 15 March. Each day of the residency, talented and multidisciplinary guests from Asia TOPA’s international roster of artists will give a lunchtime performance at MPavilion, from 12.30–1.30pm. Asia TOPA is a joint initiative of the Sid...
Mar 10, 2020•54 min
How do we build resilience through nature? Join us as we attempt to answer this question. An Australian first, Living Melbourne is a formalised strategy and report that seeks to connect, extend and enhance urban greening across the metropolitan area. Developed by Resilient Melbourne in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, Living Melbourne unites the efforts of many different organisations to see our whole city better work towards three outcomes: healthy people, abundant nature and robust nat...
Mar 10, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Listen back to presentations by prominent space-thinkers & thinkers alike who are experts in their fields, followed by a public discussion convened by Annie Handmer. Many governments and private companies plan in the coming years to venture to the moon for scientific purposes, resource exploration and long-term human habitation. We ask the question: can going to the moon reconcile Earth? The plan is to give the public a voice in the Moon/Earth relationship in context of Moon Village Associat...
Mar 09, 2020•2 hr 3 min
Revisit this talk with Law Architects’ Senior Associate Jenni Webster, in conversation with Dr. Martyn Hook, to hear reflections on the Melbourne Award 2019 Urban Design Winner, the Carlton Learning and Community Hub School project. Learn how the existing three-storey school building was transformed to include an integrated early learning centre, family services centre and community hub. With its signature element, the Covered Outdoor Learning Area (COLA), the project has raised the profile of t...
Mar 09, 2020•51 min
Revist this talk, with an interactive exploration of the processes of the young Balinese performers of Bumi Bajra, featured in The Seen and Unseen. In partnership with Performing Lines. The Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts—or Asia TOPA—settles into MPavilion for an action-packed month-long residency from Thursday 20 February to Sunday 15 March. Each day of the residency, talented and multidisciplinary guests from Asia TOPA’s international roster of artists will give a lunchtime performa...
Mar 09, 2020•18 min
Listen back to this conversation with fashion industry elder Janice Breen Burns and four of Melbourne’s renowned independent designers and couturieres, Estelle Michaelides, Kara Baker, Nevada Duffy and Julie Goodwin for a deep-dive into the art of original garments, the exquisite crafts of couture, and the heritage values they practice that offer consumers one solution to fashion’s very modern problem of sustainability and ethical supply.
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 2 min
The Meeting Points Series is a creative collaboration between the Australian Art Orchestra and Arts Centre Melbourne, bringing together musical styles from across the globe in unexpected collaborations. The concert Hand to Earth features Sunny Kim, Daniel Wilfred and AAO Artistic Director Peter Knight. Renowned Korean jazz singer Sunny Kim is a lecturer at the University of Melbourne and a close collaborator of the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO). In this capacity, she has worked extensively with...
Mar 09, 2020•55 min
Revisit Michelle Lim Davidson and Diana Lin in conversation with Benjamin Law exploring his new work Torch the Place, focusing on the representation of Asian-Australian characters on stage. In partnership with Melbourne Theatre Company. The Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts—or Asia TOPA—settles into MPavilion for an action-packed month-long residency from Thursday 20 February to Sunday 15 March. Each day of the residency, talented and multidisciplinary guests from Asia TOPA’s internation...
Mar 09, 2020•58 min
Listen back to this talk with director Kamila Andini and dramaturg Adena Jacobs on the intercultural artistic collaboration for The Seen and Unseen Theatre/Dance production. In partnership with Performing Lines. The Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts—or Asia TOPA—settles into MPavilion for an action-packed month-long residency from Thursday 20 February to Sunday 15 March. Each day of the residency, talented and multidisciplinary guests from Asia TOPA’s international roster of artists will...
Mar 09, 2020•57 min
For more than 65,000 years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have studied the intricate ways in which the sky and land are connected. Listen back to Kamilaroi astrophysics student Krystal De Napoli to hear about the methods Indigenous astronomers use to predict weather and harvest cycles from the sky, plan ceremonial practices, and navigate vast distances. This presentation will explores the use of orality as the vehicle for encoding and preserving astronomical knowledge over th...
Mar 09, 2020•52 min
Listen back to this 2019 Talk with Jeni Paay, Flavia Marcello, and Dan Golding. Architects and planners don’t just plan for the present—they imagine the future. In past times of crisis and upheaval, architects have thought beyond the realm of the possible, creating new visions of the future that reimagine how people can once again live harmoniously in cities. We are currently facing new times of disharmony and uncertainty but the crisis is not world war it is global warming. Post-war designs for...
Feb 24, 2020•1 hr
Where have Melbourne Music Week’s last ten years taken us? And where will its next ten lead? As MMW commences its tenth anniversary, lets analyse the idea and impact of the annual music week in promoting a city’s music culture. Listen back to this 2019 talk from Dr Andrea Baker, lecturer and author of ‘The Great Music City’, sustainability-focused councillor Cathy Oke; Look Out Kid co-director Nick O’Byrne; Bakehouse Studios co-founder Helen Marcou, and Yorta Yorta poet, musician and activist Ne...
Feb 24, 2020•55 min
Listen back to a special edition of our MRelay series, organised by the M_Curators. As young people from the age of 18-25, they have chosen to focus this MRelay on the biggest issue facing their generation: the climate crisis. The MRelay series takes the art of conversation and makes it into an intellectual team sport where—instead of batons—insights and ideas are passed down the chain. In September 2019, record numbers of people around the world took to the streets to demand action on climate c...
Feb 24, 2020•2 hr 32 min
Join kundalini yoga teacher and founder of Mistletone Records & Touring Sophie Miles, Artist as Family, and musician Allara Briggs Pattison, as they discuss the alternate sources of energy, healing and renewal in this new climate era, in response to MPavilion’s February theme — Earth: A Place of Reconciliation, a Reconciliation of Place. Lauren Taylor and Simon Winkler, hosts of 3RRR’s Breaking & Entering, record a special podcast each month, with guests including inventive artists, musi...
Feb 24, 2020•57 min
Listen back to this forum speculating on alternative models of reciprocity that could facilitate community empowerment and procurement; debating the pros and cons and imagining a future where this is commonplace. 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 Indigenous voices in conversations about architecture, the representation of histories, the present...
Feb 21, 2020•1 hr 7 min
This presentation by Dr Paul Toyne, Sustainability Practice Leader at Grimshaw, explores the ingenuity and possibility of architecture as we look for intelligent strategies for sustainable future living, and to strengthen humanity’s connection with nature. Drawing upon Grimshaw’s interest for projects with minimal footprints, Paul explores how the disciplines of architecture and urban design may adapt to, and regenerate, the Earth’s systems. With its aspirational message about the natural world,...
Feb 21, 2020•1 hr 23 min
Melbourne is proudly Australia’s ‘most liveable city’ – but how can we best accommodate a doubling of the population without doubling the footprint of the city? Join a wide-ranging discussion exploring how we can face Melbourne’s housing challenges as we grow to Australia’s biggest city. Andrew Mackenzie leads a range of experts from urban design, transport, economic, academic and government perspectives exploring the future challenges across these areas. Wild speculation, utopian visions and pr...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 14 min
