In the latest #ClimateTalks , we talk about bringing climate science back to the COPs with Professor Mark Howden, ANU Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions Director and Vice Chair of IPCC Working Group II, and Dr Linden Ashcroft, lecturer, climate scientist and science communicator.

go.unimelb.edu.au/ytv8

With the aim of propelling positive change within society, Melbourne School of Design student and 2024 Westpac Bank Asian Exchange Scholar @MiaiCasey intends to use digital products to develop creative solutions to solve the world’s most pressing problems.

Growing up in China and Taiwan, Mia's

'Small pieces loosely joined' — one of the key strategic design principles I keep returning to, time after time (sits perfectly alongside modular kit of parts prototyping, adaptive design, and so many others) medium.com/slowdown-paper…

The pursuit of 'vanity height' in skyscrapers is driven by aesthetic appeal and the status of being 'the tallest'. Redefining how we measure building heights, writes James Helal (@UniMelb) + Daria Trabucco (@iuav), can help cut the environmental cost. theconversation.com/sky-high-vanit…

🎾 Could mega sporting events serve as intermediary advocates for climate action?

Dr @SebFastenrath considers the #AusOpen as a case study in Environmental Innovation & Societal Transitions → unimelb.me/3wosAo5

🎧 'To repair the multiple harms besetting the built environment, we must first break the logic that produced them.'

Dr Lucy Benjamin talks the 'right to repair' with Radio National's Blueprint for Living. unimelb.me/3UTVCW9

⛩️ Rebuilt every 20 years since the late 7th century, the Ise shrines raise complex issues around architectural process & meaning, sustainability & the perpetuation of indigenous building practices.

Learn more with Harvard University's Prof Yukio Lippit 22 May → unimelb.me/4dzCdAU

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the opening of Beyond Housing. It was wonderful to see four years of Studio Epsilon alum gathered with the MSD community.

More on the exhibit & programming, including Dr Djordje Stojanovic's book launch → unimelb.me/4bip3q4

We need a long term strategy that delivers better support and helps prevent homelessness for children and adolescents.

Important Editorial here: 'Clearly, long-term investment in housing is an effective public health intervention.'

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Is your smart city idea our next Fishermans Bend pilot?

We're looking for smart and tech-based ideas to help shape a more circular, resilient and regenerative city.

💧New work by Dr Kerry Nice (@MothLight) involved setting up field experiments to measure the afternoon cooling benefits of irrigation on urban green space.

Learn more in the Aug edition of Landscape & Urban Planning → unimelb.me/4adtEZA

🏢 Can saving a building save the planet?

With commercial, industrial & residential buildings contributing 20% of annual greenhouse gas emissions, ArchitectureAU asked Prof Sarah Bell, Director of The Retrofit Lab, exactly that → unimelb.me/3QC8pKi

'As we grapple with bad environmental news every day, we need to tell stories of ecological restoration – to speak of what’s possible & also what’s not.'

@BushJude writes on returning biodiversity to Merri Creek, a haven to many, for The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand → unimelb.me/3Ww6ASJ

What can walls tell about our cities?

An urban visual culture expert, Dr @SabinaAndron presents an Informal Urbanism Hub Seminar with A/Prof DrCrystalLegacy 9 May. 5–6pm in our Japanese Room or Zoom, join → unimelb.me/4dtrmbK #INFUR

From assessments to international politics, Australian universities have long been a site of protest.

As experts from @unimelb write, today’s students join this legacy of activists who helped shape higher education and the Australian cultural landscape. theconversation.com/vietnam-brutal…

New Online 1st Article “Geographies of super-philanthropy: Disaggregating the global philanthropic complex” by Pablo Fuentenebro, Rachel Bok, Emily Rosenman, and Michele Acuto.

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Our @NetworkedCities is working with Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) on a pilot program to provide local government workers with a deeper understanding of #disinformation 's impact – & the skills to assess, counter & build resilience to it.

More in today's @TheAge → unimelb.me/3Un2kT4

🏢 Does your work involve grappling with #retrofit ?

@NetworkedCities & UTS's Retrofit Forum meets on the first Tue of each month to dive into buildings, landscapes, skills & tech. 4–5pm, onsite & online, free. See you 7 May! → unimelb.me/3wsyrsi

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