News & Events
‘Designing with Country – Plants: Past, Present and Future’.
As a keynote event of Open House 2023, The Yulendj Weelam Lab presents ‘Designing with Country - Plants: Past, Present and Future’, with Zena Cumpston, Professor Lesley Head, Beau de Belle, Michael-Shawn Fletcher and Jock Gilbert. 'Plants: Past, Present and Future' is the latest offering in the remarkable “First Knowledges” series.
Positioning plants in relation to deep time, Plants further explores them in the context of contemporary Australian spatial, social and cultural relationships.
Moving beyond the framing of plants as constituent elements of either gardens or nature, the book powerfully demonstrates what landscape architects can (and should) learn from First Nations people – and how this knowledge can help us effectively engage in and provide leadership on landscape issues at a national scale.
Hear from the authors Zena Cumpston, Michael Shawn-Fletcher and Lesley Head in conversation with the Yulendj Weelam Lab's Dr Christine Phillips, Beau de Belle and Jock Gilbert.
Date: Wednesday 26 July, 2023
Time: 6.30-8pm
Location: The Capitol 113 Swanston St, Melbourne/Naarm
Images credit: Nick Bebbington
Image credit: Nick Bebbington
‘Design: Building on Country’
In response to Professor Paul Memmott and Alison Page’s book Design: Building on Country, this event is a public conversation with the authors that will explore the future of Australia’s built environment when it responds to the essence of the Country and its people.
· Professor Paul Memmott (co-author of Building: Design on Country)
· Alison Page (co-author of Building: Design on Country)
· Dr Christine Phillips (Senior Lecturer, RMIT Architecture Program)
· Jock Gilbert (Program Manager, RMIT Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Program).
· Beau de Belle (Gamilaraay architecture graduate/VC Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Fellow
at RMIT University)
Date: Saturday 30 July 2022
Time: 6pm – 7.30pm
Location: The Capitol 113 Swanston St, Melbourne/Naarm
Public Lecture presented by Anthony Hoete ‘Transcolonisation: Indigenising architecture and its environment’
Anthony Hoete is an RMIT School of Architecture & Urban Design Adjunct Professor, Professor of Architecture at the University of Auckland and is of Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Ranana (Māori) descent. He is registered in Aotearoa New Zealand, the UK and the Netherlands. In 2002 founded his own practice, WHAT Architecture (http://www.whatarchitecture.com), in London, which has received Royal Institute of British Architects, New Zealand Institute of Architects, and many other architectural awards for its innovative projects. He is the MD of the London-based property developer, Game of Architecture, which specialises in build-to-rent affordable housing made from CLT. He has taught at The Bartlett UCL, TU Delft, the Architecture Association in London, Sint Lucas Architektur in Brussels, the American University of Beirut, and RMIT in Melbourne.
In this lecture, Anthony Hoete will trace 30 years of the slow road to Te Ao Māori architecture in Aotearoa and the quest for this emergent architecture on these islands to reconcile colonial traditions and European influences with a sustained interest in the Indigenous project.
Date: Thursday 20 October 2022
Time: 6:00PM
Location: RMIT Capitol Theatre, 113 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC
MTalks Blakitecture: Memorialisation
As part of the MPavilion Blakitecture MTalks series curated by Sarah Lynn Rees, Dr Christine Phillips and Jock Gilbert from the Yulendj Weelam Lab were invited to present the ‘Memorialisation’ session. We live in cities and towns that reflect the denial of Indigenous histories and perspectives, but momentum around this issue is building. What role can design play in addressing the lack of memorials and visibility to the memories and legacy of the frontier wars in Australia? What are the challenges around this for both non-Indigenous and Indigenous designers?
MPavilion’s second annual BLAKitecture forum brings together Indigenous built environment practitioners on the Yaluk-ut Weelam land of the Boon Wurrung people. The forum aims to centralise Indigenous voices in conversations about architecture, the representation of histories, the present state and the future of our built environments.
This conversation included speakers Carroll Go-Sam, Christine Phillips, Jock Gilbert, Julie Barkari Jones and was chaired by Simon Knott.
Date: Monday 26 November 2018
Time: 6.15pm - 8.15 pm
Location: MPavilion, Naarm
‘Melbourne Design Week 2021: Confluence’
Conf Confluence invites you into a yarn led by Barkandji and Bun Wurrung Elders, Traditional Owners, artists and community members exploring the centrality of water to Aboriginal understandings of Country.
You will be asked to consider how the design community might work together to create a better, healthier future for the planet through an engagement with landscape that transcends the institutional and accepted and towards acknowledgment and understanding of Country as a world-view. The yarn will employ Storying, deep listening (through which one understands one’s own story in relation to those of others in a related group) and yarning as techniques.
Speakers:
• N’Arwee’t Dr Carolyn Briggs, AM, Boon Wurrung Foundation
• Eddy Harris, Wilcannia artist
• Woddy Harris, Wilcannia artist
• Sophia Pearce, Indigenous knowledge broker, Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation
• Christine Phillips, architect, RMIT University
• Jock Gilbert, landscape architect, RMIT University
Presented by The Capitol and RMIT University School of Architecture & Urban Design as part of Melbourne Design Week 2021, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV.
Date: Friday 26 March, 2021
Time: 11:45am
Location: RMIT Capitol Theatre, 113 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC