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Potter Museum of Art / Wood Marsh

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:00:00 +0000

The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Education and Programs Centre is a significant expansion of the original museum at the University of Melbourne's Parkville campus, extending into the heritage-listed 1930s Physics Annex. Connecting with both the campus and a major road leading out of the city centre, the concave, mirrored, polished stainless-steel portal extends from the original façade, marking the museum's presence and creating a multi-faceted public interface.

University of Melbourne Student Pavilion / KoningEizenberg Architecture

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 03:00:00 +0000

Driven by student input on diversity, gender equity, well-being, and sustainability, the Student Pavilion provides a home on the University of Melbourne campus for students to study and linger. Located within the new Student Precinct, it expands services for commuter students by providing informal dining, study, arts, meeting and event spaces that they can use at liberty during the day.

Talking Water (Take 1)

Rene Submissions — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:30:00 +0000

Margolese National Design for Living award winner Jane Wolff is delivering a special public lecture at Melbourne School of Design on her work framing public conversations about how to manage complex and contested landscapes that are subject to change.

Wolff envisions a role for design that is different from offering specific solutions to singular problems. Instead, they offer widely accessible tools for understanding, discussing, and reimagining our shared places with the institutions and policymakers that control them.

Wolff’s goal is to help people recognise their own roles in this ecosystem and consider the impacts of their individual and collective decisions.

John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense

Rene Submissions — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 08:30:00 +0000

John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense is a celebration of the great, yet under recognised, architect's work and its global impact. Now more than ever, Andrews’ designs are a shining example of how architecture can be used to address urgent environmental and urban concerns.

Toured previously at Harvard University’s Druker Design Gallery, Architect of Uncommon Sense showcases formerly inaccessible Australian archival holdings from the State Library of New South Wales, with a special focus on Andrews' Melbourne projects including the RMIT library and student union (completed as Building 8 by Edmond & Corrigan), the Melbourne Convention Centre, a scheme for the

The Case for City-level Innovation Ecosystems in Africa

Rene Submissions — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:45:00 +0000

It's difficult to fathom what constitutes appropriate sustainable urbanisation policy amidst persistent systemic inequalities, decaying institutional bodies, and hollow political discourse. In Melbourne School of Design’s third Dean's Lecture of the year, founding director of African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town Professor Edgar Pieterse will explore how to create working and sustainable urban policy in the Global South. In rethinking urban policy, Edgar looks to Africa where emerging urban sustainability experiments are moving communities towards a more just and culturally welcoming environment.

The University of Melbourne x Melbourne Design Week 2024

Rene Submissions — Mon, 20 May 2024 08:15:00 +0000

With a focus on sustainability, ethics and technology, this Melbourne Design Week the University will showcase the latest in design thinking and creation with a range of free public events to inspire everyone from the design-curious to the design professional.

Explore the complete program on our website, where you'll find individual event descriptions, times and booking details.

Ableist Cities Symposium

Rene Submissions — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:00:00 +0000

The Ableist Cities Symposium will bring together academics and industry experts to hear narratives of individual lived experience and co-designed research around disability and accessibility in cities.

The symposium is hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, and the Melbourne Disability Institute at the University of Melbourne.

Sessions will explore housing design, the consideration of neurodiverse individuals in the design of public spaces, and the relationship between government policy and inclusive design practice.

Emphasising an integrated approach, the symposium seeks to marry the realms of politics,

Retrofit Symposium

Rene Submissions — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:20:00 +0000

Hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, this two-day symposium brings together academic, government and industry experts to set the national research agenda to support the transformation of Australian cities. A series of keynote lectures, site visits and panel discussions featuring local and international speakers will explore the need for an increase in the scale of retrofitting in Australia. Join us for these timely conversations about our evolving cities. The symposium will also be livestreamed, find out more on the registration page.

A Sense of Identity: An exploration of Landscape Architecture in Africa

Rene Submissions — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 12:45:00 +0000

Join us for the final Dean’s Lecture for 2023 with landscape architects Chloe and Michael Humphreys, founders of The Landscape Studio. Their unique approach is driven by careful observation and an in-depth understanding of the wider landscape. In this lecture they will present key projects in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya that showcase their innovative process, with design solutions that aim to improve the biodiversity and sustainability of their project sites.

Matrix: How We Live Now

Rene Submissions — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:15:00 +0000

Matrix: How We Live Now is a timely new exhibition exploring the work of the Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, a radical feminist architectural practice active in London from 1980 to 1996. The exhibition features items drawn from the collective’s open archive, alongside projects from researchers at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning on gender, bodies and ecologies. Join us for a series of floor talks and panel discussions during the exhibition on important topics including architecture and community, bodies and cities, and writing diverse histories of architecture.

Thinking of You: Projects by MGS Architects

Rene Submissions — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Join us for this new exhibition reflecting on the work of well-known Melbourne-based practice MGS Architects. The exhibition will feature voices of the residents who inhabit the design projects; foregrounding the collaborative, process-driven approach of the practice. Key projects in community housing, urban precinct redesign and education demonstrate the practice’s commitment to creating places that meet the demands of living well and living sustainably, coupled with the desire for individual expression and the need for community. Check out the full program of exhibition floor talks and Open House Melbourne events on our website.

Victoria's Future Cities, Suburbs and Building Reforms

Rene Submissions — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:45:00 +0000

Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion with key building industry stakeholders.

State and Federal Governments are now grappling with both housing and infrastructure issues. All stakeholders in the Victorian Building Industry are critical to providing jobs, building for future sustainability, and ensuring consumer protection.

The Victorian Government has undertaken a program to reform the building system. These reforms raise important questions about consumer protection, building industry governance and the role of developers, contractors, architects, and consultants. However, the building system is complex with many different moving parts and stakeholder interests.

This event will explore this context and highlight the issues

MSDx Winter 2023

Rene Submissions — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Discover what’s happening at the Melbourne School of Design at MSDx Winter, as the building is transformed into a multi-floor gallery showcasing hundreds of pieces of studio work by talented students in one of Australia's largest design exhibitions. MSDx illustrates the quality and diversity of student output, ranging from highly speculative propositions reimagining the future of cities, to more practice-oriented efforts conveying a love of craft or a care for place. Join us for the launch party on Thur 22 Jun, register on our website.

Leveraging the City and University Connection for Impact

Rene Submissions — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:15:00 +0000

A public event by Melbourne Centre for Cities for those interested in how Universities and Cities collaborate for impact.

This one-day symposium featuring thought-provoking speakers, cutting-edge research and practice, and participatory discussions, to think about opportunities and challenges that arise when universities and cities work together to address important urban issues.

Keynote speakers include:
- Professor Harriet Bulkeley (FBA, Professor in the Department of Geography,
Durham University, and at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development,
Utrecht University)
- Inala Cooper (Director Murrup Barak, Melbourne Institute for Indigenous
Development)
- Jason Eades (Director Aboriginal Melbourne, City of Melbourne)

Universities play a vital

Landscape Architects as Change Makers

Rene Submissions — Wed, 10 May 2023 08:15:00 +0000

This bi-lingual exhibition showcases eight projects by award-winning Japanese and Australian landscape architects that explore the tactics and strategies they use to implement innovative design outcomes. As part of Melbourne Design Week, join us for a free floor talk in the gallery on Sat 20 May and panel discussions hosted by RMIT on Sun 21 May that will bring together the Australian designers and three Japanese designers.

A National Urban Policy for Australia

Rene Submissions — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 08:45:00 +0000

Humankind is rapidly becoming an urban species, with projected growth of city dwellers quadrupling from 2.3 billion to 9.3 billion between 1980 and 2080. Despite this growth, governments are slow to respond with urban policies that reflect changing demographics.

UK-based sustainable urban leadership and urban transition expert Professor Greg Clark will deliver this free lecture at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning.

After the pandemic cities need to be reinvented. Can the federal government help? What does Australia need now and how can it be created? Explore these questions ahead of the next federal budget.

New Horizons: Through Darkness comes Light Exhibition

Rene Submissions — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:30:00 +0000

New Horizons: Through Darkness comes Light showcases the the Perth-based émigré Iwan Iwanoff alongside a collective chorus of artists, designers, architects and creatives of European origin and education who practiced in Melbourne. Explore a wealth of exhibition materials including archival drawings, interviews, print media, 3D models and film that demonstrate how these practitioners explored new horizons and created prolific legacies.

BAUWENDE - Architecture in the climatic turn

Rene Submissions — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:15:00 +0000

German-based architect Matthias Sauerbauch will present a lecture addressing how his design firm has shifted its thinking in the context of ever-increasing climate awareness. Strategies from reduction of CO2 emissions through to computerised building management systems will be explored.