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Redesigning the Housing System

Melbourne Design Week 2023

Broadcasting ideas for systemic change.

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People & Place

Exploring the evolution of place and community through time
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Culture

Creativity and ideas to enrich our daily living
Series

Work

What are we working for, and to whose benefit? ‘Work’ speculates on the status quo and futures for work, from a fictional commute that envisions a city in perpetual motion to a spotlight on essential workers doing unseen labour.
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Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap looks at the many ways different communities come together to support each other when our systems fail.

City Living

Read [12 mins]
Dec 20, 2022

Leveraging louvres to turn off the sunshine in L.A.

by Sam Bloch
Read [7 mins]
Jul 13, 2022

Repairing Melbourne through active citizenship 

by Lily Di Sciascio
Read [8 mins]
Jun 21, 2022

Divining the future of car parks

by Samuel Holleran
Read [15 mins]
May 25, 2022

Making cities better with vacant spaces and ‘meanwhile use’

by Mel Dodd
Read [7 mins]
Sep 14, 2021

Reforming the gig economy

by Keelia Fitzpatrick
Read [5 mins]
Sep 14, 2021

Looking at the unseen labour behind deathcare

by Samuel Holleran

Impact

Read [7 mins]
Jul 18, 2022

Immersing in post-bushfire recovery in East Gippsland

by Nikhila Madabhushi
Read [12 mins]
Sep 14, 2021

Calculating the cost of womanhood

by Jane Gilmore
Read [7 mins]
Feb 3, 2021

Ahakoa He Iti He Pounamu*

*Although It May Be Small, It Is Precious
by Emma Telfer & Sophie Rzepecky
Read [12 mins]
Feb 3, 2021

Government Architect Jill Garner says don’t be afraid of density

by Sophie Rzepecky
Read [6 mins]
Feb 3, 2021

Tales of living together, apart, in Melbourne’s public housing

by Bri Hammond
Read [8 mins]
Feb 3, 2021

Melbourne’s inner city and the fight for food relief

by Georgia Symons

Recent Stories

Read [15 mins]
Feb 21, 2023

Envisioning the future of local communities through artmaking

by Jade Irvine
Read [14 mins]
Feb 9, 2023

Transforming architecture into an act of care with Tatiana Bilbao

by Ingrid Langtry
Read [12 mins]
Feb 2, 2023

Advocating for alternatives to Melbourne’s public housing demolition

by Miriam McGarry and OFFICE
Read [12 mins]
Dec 20, 2022

Leveraging louvres to turn off the sunshine in L.A.

by Sam Bloch
Read [7 mins]
Jul 18, 2022

Immersing in post-bushfire recovery in East Gippsland

by Nikhila Madabhushi
Read [7 mins]
Jul 13, 2022

Repairing Melbourne through active citizenship 

by Lily Di Sciascio