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Melbourne: Design, government and politics
Special Public Lectures
Design, government and politics:
Creating quality in the built environment or pandering to political agendas?
University of Melbourne Asia Center, Carrillo Gantner Theatre
Saturday 27 May, 10am - 12:30pm
Government architects have been playing a fundamental, if patchy, part in the construction of urban Australias heritage and its institutional infrastructure.
In recent years, government architects have been appointed in new roles in Queensland, Western Australia, Northern Territory and, most recently, in Victoria. They join the office of the NSW Government Architect that commenced in 1816.
These new appointments face different challenges from their predecessors. Their role is no longer focused on the production of buildings but is rather an advisory one, suggesting spatial priorities, formulating strategies, developing public policy and overseeing due procurement processes. How does this contemporary role connect to the quality of Australian places? How does it respond to the political pressures of working within government?
In the attempt to provide answers, six government architects will lead a public discussion on their position in relation to the political process and the ability of their office to institute change in the built environment.
Speakers:
John Denton, Government Architect of Victoria
Shelley Penn, Associate Government Architect of Victoria
Geoffrey London, Government Architect of Western Australia
Peter Mould, Government Architect of New South Wales
Peter Poulet, Design Director of the NSW Government Architect Design Directorate (GADD)
Wayne Petrie, Interim Government Architect of Queensland
Introduction:
Professor Philip Goad, Acting Dean of the Faculty
Moderation:
Associate Professor Paolo Tombesi
Schedule:
10:00 10:15 Introduction
10:15 11:30 Chaired discussion
11:30 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 12:30 Open forum
Cost: Free
Partners:
Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, University of Melbourne
RAIA Sisalation Prize (sponsored by Fletcher Solutions and RAIA)
Office of the Victorian Government Architect
Contact details:
Paolo Tombesi <p.tombesi @unimelb.edu.au> 8344 8981
Blair Gardiner <blairmg @unimelb.edu.au> 8344 6939
Design, government and politics:
Creating quality in the built environment or pandering to political agendas?
University of Melbourne Asia Center, Carrillo Gantner Theatre
Saturday 27 May, 10am - 12:30pm
Government architects have been playing a fundamental, if patchy, part in the construction of urban Australias heritage and its institutional infrastructure.
In recent years, government architects have been appointed in new roles in Queensland, Western Australia, Northern Territory and, most recently, in Victoria. They join the office of the NSW Government Architect that commenced in 1816.
These new appointments face different challenges from their predecessors. Their role is no longer focused on the production of buildings but is rather an advisory one, suggesting spatial priorities, formulating strategies, developing public policy and overseeing due procurement processes. How does this contemporary role connect to the quality of Australian places? How does it respond to the political pressures of working within government?
In the attempt to provide answers, six government architects will lead a public discussion on their position in relation to the political process and the ability of their office to institute change in the built environment.
Speakers:
John Denton, Government Architect of Victoria
Shelley Penn, Associate Government Architect of Victoria
Geoffrey London, Government Architect of Western Australia
Peter Mould, Government Architect of New South Wales
Peter Poulet, Design Director of the NSW Government Architect Design Directorate (GADD)
Wayne Petrie, Interim Government Architect of Queensland
Introduction:
Professor Philip Goad, Acting Dean of the Faculty
Moderation:
Associate Professor Paolo Tombesi
Schedule:
10:00 10:15 Introduction
10:15 11:30 Chaired discussion
11:30 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 12:30 Open forum
Cost: Free
Partners:
Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, University of Melbourne
RAIA Sisalation Prize (sponsored by Fletcher Solutions and RAIA)
Office of the Victorian Government Architect
Contact details:
Paolo Tombesi <p.tombesi @unimelb.edu.au> 8344 8981
Blair Gardiner <blairmg @unimelb.edu.au> 8344 6939
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