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A series of ‘Illuminating Conversations’ with Place Intelligence explores the role of data in cities, in public institutions and how its role has changed with Covid-19 and the climate emergency.

DATA AS ILLUMINATION - Urban data experts discuss how new forms of city data make hidden patterns visible and public, illuminating access to knowledge, and how our knowledge institutions are responsible for the ways that ideas move and spread through a city.

KNOWLEDGE AS ILLUMINATION - Cultural and knowledge sector leaders shine a light on the role of their institutions in providing public access to knowledge and illuminating new ideas, and how this role is changing with covid and the climate emergency.

DESIGN AS ILLUMINATION - Leading architects, lighting and interaction designers explore the role of design in illuminating and engaging people in these important public institutions.

A series of ‘Illuminating Conversations’ with Place Intelligence explores the role of data in cities, in public institutions and how its role has changed with Covid-19 and the climate emergency.

DATA AS ILLUMINATION - Urban data experts discuss how new forms of city data make hidden patterns visible and public, illuminating access to knowledge, and how our knowledge institutions are responsible for the ways that ideas move and spread through a city.

KNOWLEDGE AS ILLUMINATION - Cultural and knowledge sector leaders shine a light on the role of their institutions in providing public access to knowledge and illuminating new ideas, and how this role is changing with covid and the climate emergency.

DESIGN AS ILLUMINATION - Leading architects, lighting and interaction designers explore the role of design in illuminating and engaging people in these important public institutions.

A series of ‘Illuminating Conversations’ with Place Intelligence explores the role of data in cities, in public institutions and how its role has changed with Covid-19 and the climate emergency.

DATA AS ILLUMINATION - Urban data experts discuss how new forms of city data make hidden patterns visible and public, illuminating access to knowledge, and how our knowledge institutions are responsible for the ways that ideas move and spread through a city.

KNOWLEDGE AS ILLUMINATION - Cultural and knowledge sector leaders shine a light on the role of their institutions in providing public access to knowledge and illuminating new ideas, and how this role is changing with covid and the climate emergency.

DESIGN AS ILLUMINATION - Leading architects, lighting and interaction designers explore the role of design in illuminating and engaging people in these important public institutions.

The Maldives is synonymous with luxury holidays: the ultimate “Robinson Crusoe” island escape where you can be treated like royalty and step out of your busy lives. Over the span of 50 years, Maldivian tourism developed from humble beginnings to a place that now welcomes over one million tourists per year (almost double the country’s population), and the number of resorts is reaching close to the number of inhabited islands. However, obscured from tourists' eyes are complex realities of a population of people grappling with the impact of rapid development, situated at the forefront of the biggest climate calamity facing human existence.

Two Maldivian artists, one living in Melbourne, one in the Maldives talk about their connection to the Maldives, and how their art practices have become a medium of telling their stories about what it means to live in and belong to, a place that is so romanticised in the global consciousness.

This conversation is facilitated by Helen Runting.

As Nyoongar Country morphs into Yamatji Country, off the coast of the small port town of Geraldton in Western Australia, there lies an archipelago of 122 islands and coral reefs known as Houtmans Abrohlos.

Home to Australia’s largest single species fishery, the Western Rock Lobster industry, the fishermen who drive this $500 million industry have grown their isolated community of colourful fibro shacks since the early 1900s—but times have never been harder.

In recent years, the pandemic and a shifting political landscape has decimated the industry, forcing many fishermen to empty their cray-pots back into the ocean and find alternate income streams, including continued exporting through unofficial ‘grey channels’.

Woven into the background of this contemporary geopolitical story is a history of shipwrecks, mutiny, sunken treasure and brutal survival. However before any tall ships arrived, the Yamatji and Nyoongar people told stories that go back tens of thousands of years, stories of crayfish and Country that go back to the Dreaming…

Come hear some of those stories, and learn about the past, present and future of traditional crayfishing on Sea and Country.

As Nyoongar Country morphs into Yamatji Country, off the coast of the small port town of Geraldton in Western Australia, there lies an archipelago of 122 islands and coral reefs known as Houtmans Abrohlos.

Home to Australia’s largest single species fishery, the Western Rock Lobster industry, the fishermen who drive this $500 million industry have grown their isolated community of colourful fibro shacks since the early 1900s—but times have never been harder.

In recent years, the pandemic and a shifting political landscape has decimated the industry, forcing many fishermen to empty their cray-pots back into the ocean and find alternate income streams, including continued exporting through unofficial ‘grey channels’.

Woven into the background of this contemporary geopolitical story is a history of shipwrecks, mutiny, sunken treasure and brutal survival. However before any tall ships arrived, the Yamatji and Nyoongar people told stories that go back tens of thousands of years, stories of crayfish and Country that go back to the Dreaming…

Come hear some of those stories, and learn about the past, present and future of traditional crayfishing on Sea and Country.

This panel discussion explores ideas of safety, movement, surveillance, physical distancing, visibility and invisibility within Melbourne’s public spaces.

Think Tank Moderator Nur Shkembi, artist, curator and PhD candidate, University of Melbourne, and Curatorial Advisory Group member for Who’s Afraid of Public Space?, is joined by esteemed local cultural contributors including Idil Ali, writer, performer, youth practitioner and community organiser; Antony Hamilton, Artistic Director, Chunky Move; Nicole Kalms, Associate Professor in Department of Design and founding director of Monash University XYX Lab; and Steven Rhall, artist, curator and PhD candidate at Monash University.

This Think Tank is fourth in the series presented by ACCA and produced as part of 'Who’s Afraid of Public Space?'

Tune in for a panel discussion hosted by Emerging Architects and Graduate Network (EmAGN) to hear emerging and established architects discussing future perspectives for young architects and designers looking to a brighter future in 2022.

The big challenges of our time such as climate change, biodiversity loss or social inequality are not directly visible and seem overwhelming for an individual to address. But all over Melbourne and Australia, there are people working away on tactics and solutions to make our cities more equitable and regenerative.

From temporary events and activations to city-wide strategies, these actions collectively give us a glimpse of what ingredients we need to build our future city.

In this conversation in the round, hear from the important but unseen actors in our cities, such as community leaders, activists and urbanists as they outline their potential solutions, many of which already exist.

What if we have enough vacant properties to house the 80,000 people on Victoria’s public housing waiting list? If you believe housing is a human right, this talk is for you.

Renegade economist Karl Fitzgerald explains how the traditional methods of evaluating residential vacancy rates are inaccurate and favour investors.

Urban geographer at the University of Melbourne Dr Kate Shaw weighs in on the economic, social, and cultural factors and incentives that cause property to be hoarded—and what policies need to change to correct the situation. Data science officer Flavia Barar discusses the challenges around obtaining data that shines a light on housing issues in Australia and spatial data marketing and communications expert Emma Joughin moderates on using data to uncover residential vacancy rates with the hopes of exposing the vacant residential properties that could house more Victorians