MPavilion

Listen to host Peter Maddison in conversation with Glenn Murcutt AO and Naomi Milgrom AO (founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation which commissions each year’s MPavilion)as they discuss Glenn's design for the 2019 edition of MPavilion, his illustrious fifty-year practice, and his most recent and forthcoming projects.

In this special presentation podcast for our MPavilion 2019 season, architect Glenn Murcutt AO spoke with Triple R broadcasters Lauren Taylor and Simon Winkler while sitting inside his newly completed pavilion. Glenn explains in poetic detail his design for the 2019 edition of MPavilion. We hear how the surrounding park breathes into this seasonal structure, and how all his works are is in deep di...

Leading the first all-black curatorial team for the 10th Berlin Biennale, Gabi Ngcobo has made international headlines this year, speaking about the importance of revisiting history in our art institutions. This MTalks event, co-presented by the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), brought a lecture by Gabi, the curator and educator titled 'Working with the unknown', which was MUMA's Boiler Roo...

What does Indigenising education mean in the built environment? Should we learn about the Indigenous built environment and, if so, what should we learn, and when, how, why and from whom? Hear from current students, graduates, practitioners and educators about the past, present and possibilities for the future of education and its representation of Indigenous perspectives and realities. MPavilion’s...

What does Indigenising education mean in the built environment? Should we learn about the Indigenous built environment and, if so, what should we learn, and when, how, why and from whom? Hear from current students, graduates, practitioners and educators about the past, present and possibilities for the future of education and its representation of Indigenous perspectives and realities. MPavilion’s...

Many individuals, groups and institutions in Australia now incorporate an acknowledgement of country into official proceedings—a recognition of the Traditional Owners of the land in which people gather, and events take place. But what does that actually mean in practice? In so many ways, architecture and urbanism are invested in ideas of land, and historical conceptions of ownership—be it through...

Explore the different aspects of sound healing and music therapy in this intellectual and spiritual discussion at MPavilion as part of Melbourne Music Week 2018. Hear how music and sound can help improve your physical and mental health, and how sound can induce a state of profound relaxation, meditation, expansion of consciousness and self-healing.

FOREGROUND brought conversations and storytelling that is usually in the background to the foreground at MPavillion—mapping the intersection between spoken-word, poetry, sound, movement and discussion. One of the uniting aspects of humanity is storytelling. In this performance and discussion, the collective of artists used ritual and space to alchemise history and experience through collective sto...

As a wrap-up to the BLAKitecture 2018/19 series, speakers across the fields of architecture, planning, archaeology and design contemplated the good, bag, ugly and inspiring aspects of the season's themes, exploring where the conversation and action should head next. MPavilion’s second annual BLAKitecture forum brought together Indigenous built environment practitioners on the Yaluk-ut Weelam land...

“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck,” said Paul Virilio, yoking together the opportunities and consequences of technological progress. We joined Rory Hyde, co-curator of The Future Starts Here exhibition at the V&A in London, to discover a landscape of possibilities for the future of design. Rory discussed the background to the major 2018 exhibition, which brought to...

Mass attacks in public spaces, pedestrian trauma, gender-based violence... How do we better share our public spaces? Have our safety needs changed, and if so, what do we most immediately need to be addressing? What are the innovative ideas leading the endeavour to keep our cities open to everyone? This panel included Melbourne’s deputy chief resilience officer, Maree Grenfell, architect Orlando Ha...

Listen in on a conversation on the changing nature of work over the generations. We spoke with active community member, Marg D’Arcy, as she shared her experiences working in government, not for profit and “grass roots” organisations. Marg is also the mum of Real Life Patron, Beci Orpin.

Melbourne is recognised as the world’s most liveable city, and the most intelligent. But what does the city do to remain relevant and maintain these accolades? European cities are seeing river and ocean pools open in the major cities almost monthly; urban farms are activating disused spaces and creating vital services and income to displaced members of the public; and events that encourage wide co...

What should cultural heritage encompass? What should be protected—how and why? Spring evening design debates with the Australian Institute of Architects returned to MPavilion during our most recent season of free events. Representatives from the Victorian Chapter of the AIA went head to head on timely and enduring ideas in architecture, including this debate, titled ‘New heritage’. Panellists incl...

Spoken-word, poetry, sound, movement and discussion intersect with a line-up of emerging storytellers. Last season’s ‘FOREGROUND’ event brought storytelling styles that are usually in the background to MPavillion with the intention to create a playful and safe space for important and meaningful conversations. Guests included Oscar Key-Sung, Aretha Brown, Jo Pugh, Shannon May Powell, Joshua Lynch,...

Listen to a vital panel conversation interrogating the role of gender in leadership, presented by Collectivity Talks. ‘Leadership and women’ interrogates the attributes of good leadership. Should gender enter the discussion? Why the controversy around quotas? Do female leaders have a responsibility to foster the careers of other women?

Listen to Sir Peter Cook, internationally influential architect and a founder of avant-garde architectural group Archigram. Sir Peter is Emeritus Professor at University College London, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Frankfurt Staedelschule, with recent works including the construction of his radical Art Museum in Graz, Austria (Kunsthaus). He was in Melbourne to direct an intensive design stud...

Join Marie Foulston, the chief curator of videogames at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, in this discussion about the current climate, challenges and changing conversations around exhibiting videogames in museum spaces. The lead curator of the V&A’s ambitious 2018/19 exhibition 'Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt', Marie has championed the social and interactive nature of videogames, interrogatin...

What role does public space play in the everyday experience of women and gnc people? In the wake of ongoing deaths and violence, how are we responding and galvanising in public spaces and online? This event was a facilitated discussion and workshop around the ideas of activating spaces, community actions and ensuring the conversation around the right to safety in public continues collectively. To...

Public Art Field Guide 4.6: Vault by MPavilion

Public Art Field Guide 4.5: VCA by MPavilion

Public Art Field Guide 4.4: Spiegeltent by MPavilion

Public Art Field Guide 4.2: Ritual by MPavilion

Public Art Field Guide 4.3: Wild Australia Tour by MPavilion

Public Art Field Guide 2.6: Testing Grounds by MPavilion