MPavilion

Listen to six artists as they discuss the processes in procuring, and incorporating under-utilised materials in their practice.

The session focuses on how the artist—as creator and consumer—actively refuses to create wasteful by-products in their practice and where possible, uses discarded waste products and manufacturing by-products.

This talk was presented in conjunction with Craft Victoria's Melbourne Design Week 2022 exhibition 'Alternative Provisions'. Showing from Feb 10-March 26.

This event was developed as part of the M_Curators, an MPavilion program engaging young makers, doers and programmers. This initiative is made possible by our presenting partner Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Skateboarding has long had a reputation for being a rebellious sub-culture—but it's something much more meaningful than that. The skateboarding community continues to prove that this little wooden toy on wheels can be a force for good.

Listen as we explore the social impact of skateboarding—as we chat to a diverse range of skate panellists, each doing their bit to make the world a better place, one kick-push at a time.

This event was part of Melbourne Design Week 2022.

‘Future Homes’ is a government initiative to facilitate better density development in the suburbs. The first stage of the project achieves this through readily available, high-quality apartment plans paired with a streamlined planning process.

The ‘Future Homes design competition’ was launched at MPavilion in February 2020. Two years later, we invite you to come along and see the design evolution of the four winning schemes— from competition ideas to viable apartment developments for the suburbs.

This panel discussion explores how to deliver viable and excellent housing for more people.

This panel discussion works towards building the capacity of built environment designers to recognise their duty-bearer and accountability status as controllers of built environment design, however un-empowered they may feel.

Rather than exploring the right of access to design expertise, ‘Disability, Human Rights, and the Built Environment’ explores the implications of (disability)human rights principles on designers' mindsets and production.

Women over the age of 55 are the fastest growing cohort of homeless in Australia and current research estimates that more than 400,000 women over the age of 45 are at risk of homelessness.

Women who find themselves at risk of homelessness in later life have often led productive lives and have had conventional housing histories. What factors have placed them at risk of homelessness and what can we do to help?

This discussion addresses these questions from a personal, social and human rights perspective. It unpacks the issues and policies that have created this crisis and outline pathways for advocacy and action.

For more information, visit:

- Australian Human Rights Commission: Age Discrimination

- Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG)

How you can help:

Search for - HAAG Federal Election Advocacy Toolkit

This event was part of Melbourne Design Week 2022.

As housing prices increase, more and more older women are seeking access to affordable housing alternatives.

Nursing homes, retirement villages, expensive private rentals and traditional owner-mortgage arrangements are no longer meeting the financial or social needs of many.

Hear about existing and emerging alternative housing options in Victoria—why they are needed, what they are trying to achieve and how they are funded.

Speakers:

Jennifer Kulas – Development Manager, Nightingale Housing, 2020 Churchill Fellow investigating innovative housing models for women

Caryn Kakas – Head of Housing Strategy, ANZ Bank

Natasha Liddell – Development Manager, Women’s Property initiative

Anneke Deutsch – President of WINC – Older Women in Cohousing

This talk was presented by the City of Melbourne with Jo Cannington, Affordable Housing Manager, facilitating the panel discussion.

Renowned visual artist Patricia Piccinini in conversation with wildlife scientist and marine mammal expert Dr Vanessa Pirotta.

Tune in to learn everything there is to know about these extraordinary creatures, their more typical journeys through the ocean and how their wondrous evolution became the inspiration behind Patricia’s Skywhales.

For 80,000+ years Aboriginal knowledge systems have guided the way humans interact with and care for Country. 

Join Krystal De Napoli in conversation with Zena Cumpston, Kirsten Banks, and William Stevens as they discuss the strength within Aboriginal science and how engaging with Aboriginal perspectives can lead to the healing of both land and sky Country. 

Zena Cumpston is a Barkandji researcher and curator of the exhibition Emu Sky now showing at Old Quad on University of Melbourne’s Parkville Campus. 

Kirsten Banks is a Wiradjuri astrophysicist and renown science communicator known as @AstroKirsten on Tik Tok.  

William Stevens is a Muruwari man with a long career working with native animals and plants, and is known as @Muzzawilly on the livestreaming platform Twitch. 

Krystal De Napoli is a Gomeroi astrophysicist and the host of Indigenuity on 102.7FM Triple R.

Painting Country is about more than words can convey. It is at the heart of some of Australia’s most vital creative, cultural and political movements. To paint Country is to make visible a world of meaning and values that are otherwise often lost in translation.

Aboriginal artists, diplomats and intellectuals have continually sought to cross the divide of cross-cultural ignorance and misunderstanding through the sharing of their Country. From the Yirrkala Bark Petitions, the Barunga Statement, the evolution of the Western Desert painting movement and contemporary Art Centres, to the presentation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, painted Country is how Australians have been asked to listen, and learn.  Yet the importance of Country, and the complexity of painting it, is often reduced to the simplistic, landscape-driven language. Worse yet, it is often lost in the language of ‘art’.

So what is Country, why does it matter, and why do so many of the most important documents in Australian History draw upon its authority?

To explore the creative and political importance of painting Country today is an esteemed panel including Claire G. Coleman, Noongar woman and acclaimed writer, Sally Scales, Pitjantjatjara woman, artist and advocate, Professor Clare Wright OAM, historian, author and broadcaster, and Professor John Carty, scholar and Head of Humanities at the South Australia Museum and author of the acclaimed book BALGO: Creating Country

This talk was presented as part of the program for UNTOLD: Marking Life, Indigenous reflections on continuing/maintaining/living rituals presented by Agency Projects.

In Australia, post-war modernism was a response to the profound social change that occurred following World War II. We are now living through another time of intense global change, and uncertainty is impacting our lives.

How will current issues—such as the global pandemic and climate change—impact how we approach the way we live, and housing, for the years ahead?

This panel discussion looks at domestic spaces and the rituals surrounding them—how they influenced how we lived in the past, and shape our lives into the present.