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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 developers are in desperate need of an intention makeover, with a huge emphasis on empathy and compassion both for people and the planet.

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.

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 histories, the present state and the future of our built environments.

BLAKitecture 2019/20 is co-curated by MPavilion’s program consultant Sarah Lynn Rees and Jack Mitchell.

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.

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.

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. Contributors include practitioners for whom the written form is their primary professional output and practitioners whose work manifests as exhibitions or events within the domain of contemporary art.

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, inclusion, location, safety, active ageing, diversity and identity, this discussion asks “What does housing mean to you, how has it shaped your sense of identity and belonging, and where do we go from here?”

Developed in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Architects, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and the Planning Institute of Australia.

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 Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities at the Louvre Museum — to speak about the pyramid and Pei’s work.

In a Smart City, how will we identify people, organisations and things in the digital realm? How will we decide who, and what, to trust? Will we have choice and agency?

Join an expert panel of futurists, designers and creative thinkers exploring 'the Smart City', highlighting barriers and benefits of a future where our identifying documents and objects are digital, sharing facts and fictions around digital identity - something that is likely to affect everyone in the future.

Listen to this panel discussion about critical issues for our future cities: approaching climate change from a place of positivity. This talk was recorded as part of the Assemble Papers 'Living Closer Together Symposium: Future Legacies' a series of discussions exploring the intersection of design, action and community.