Mark your calendars for an exciting month of precinct events, including pitches by the entrepreneurial community MAP UniMelb, and interactive student exhibitions Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology. From 23 May to 2 June, check out our event program at #melbournedesignweek → bit.ly/4bd6lkh

Full program released for Wellbeing of Architects Symposium dlvr.it/T5qXkT

'In these towns, the patterns of enterprise seem more redolent of the biological processes of fermentation, as with the local koji, than the extractive language of start-up & scale-up.' @CityOfSound reads Saito in Kagoshima in Future Observatory Journal → unimelb.me/3UCQHZu

Launching the recent special issue on Jennifer Bloomer, edited by Dr Emma Cheatle and Hélène Frichot, The Bartlett 🌟 A Festival of Feminist Architectural Writing | Re:arrangements and A Revisitation | The Bartlett School of Architecture ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/archi…

🥵 How sweltering does your street get?

Find out in our Map of the Month with @AURIN_Org_AU, MDAP & #UniMelbPursuit & learn why we must ‘de-pave’ & ‘re-plant’ our cities to live well in a warming climate → unimelb.me/4dlE9Ni ᴍɪᴄʜᴇʟᴇ ᴀᴄᴜᴛᴏ @NetworkedCities @_Ficus RMIT Centre for Urban Research

We'll soon face a radically different form of intelligence, an ‘alien intelligence,’ that will transform the disciplines of architecture & urban planning.

Hear @DigitalFutures0 co-founder Prof Neil Leach at MSD. 12.15pm 3 May, free → unimelb.me/4aXxW8W

'Contested Riverscapes in Jakarta: Flooding, Forced Eviction & Urban Image' by Prof Kim Dovey, Dr Amanda Achmadi & Science at Melbourne's A/Prof Brian Cook is featured in Erasmus Huis Jakarta' What If Lab: The Sustainable Society → unimelb.me/4aSdk1O

Learn more → unimelb.me/44o2E8K

Join @JanesWalk this Sun to uncover landmarks of Melbourne’s women’s movement. From 4.30pm at Burston Reserve, free → unimelb.me/3Wjz4Pz

🇨🇳 🇦🇺 Main streets aren’t dead – they’ve just gone digital, according to Prof Sun Sheng Han who has collaborated with @SJTU1896 & Wuhan University to research how COVID has transformed Wuhan’s commercial hub. Learn more → unimelb.me/3JFFuRK

Coming up: Our Stuart Harrison joins ACAHUCH in launching heritage advocate Warren Andersen's new book The Architecture of Iwan Iwanoff.

6–7.30pm 15 May in the Japanese Room at MSD, free. Register → unimelb.me/49NTBik

'To get the Sustainable Development Goals back on track, we need to reshape our approaches to implementation, including localisation.'

@NetworkedCities' Alexei Trundle on transformative localisation to accelerate the 2030 agenda in nature→ unimelb.me/3Qd0p2d

'To demolish them is like deleting an element of Melbourne’s working-class history.'

Prof David Nichols in @TheAge on how public housing towers mean 'a huge amount to Melbourne' as forces unite to save them → unimelb.me/49FQrwV

🗿 Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor & Chair of Architecture Philip Goad has been appointed Chair of the Jury for NationalGalleryAus' Sculpture Garden Design Competition → unimelb.me/3w0uJGf ArchitectureAU

📣 Project Spotlight: Old Quadrangle Redevelopment

The #OldQuad at University of Melbourne was the first in Australia to target the adaptive reuse model Passivhaus EnerPHit.

There was extensive work to achieve airtightness around the building envelope.

Learn more ➡️ introba.com/work/projects/…

Planners’ Changing Relationships with Participation: The Impact of New Training & Certification Schemes. New work from A/Prof DrCrystalLegacy & @PlaceMatt with Dr Janice Barry & @MorganWBoyco of University of Waterloo
in JPER PlanningJournal → unimelb.me/4d2uM51

🎧 Dr Soon-Tzu Speechley (@Speechleyish) ponders a brick from his garden & what it reveals about changes in architectural style as well as our increasingly disposable attitudes towards buildings on RN Blueprint for Living → unimelb.me/3w3Ikwp @ABCAustralia

📢 New in The Journal of Architecture: Creative Practice Inquiry in Architecture – a book review by Prof Hélène Frichot → unimelb.me/3Q5tkFg

How can tech & data help cities become more circular, efficient, healthy & resilient? The @Fishermans_Bend Digital Innovation Challenge seeks big ideas to build a regenerative city.

Learn more at its launch from 5.30pm 18 Apr at narrm ngarrgu Library → unimelb.me/3vUvuAE

🎧 Ahead of her Dean's Lecture at MSD Tue, listen to @AnaMiljacki's podcast on refusal with Architectural League → unimelb.me/3Uemf7T

Limited tickets remain for Collective Repair. 7pm 16 Apr, free – register at unimelb.me/3UbgtUx

Missed Dr Mandy Nicholson's Baggarrook-al Biik-u: #SheIsOfCountry ? Delve into Country's many layers – below, on, water, wind, sky, star – in our virtual gallery this weekend → unimelb.me/3U9QmNI