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BUILT ENVIRONMENT Vol. 2 A gathering of books, art, and talks. Friday, 29th May (Opening + Book Launch): 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Saturday, 30th May (Book Fair & Talks): 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Expanding upon last year’s event, BUILT ENVIRONMENT Vol. 2 returns to celebrate a diverse range of practices that engage with our surroundings through multidisciplinary approaches. Curated by @thresholdprojects in collaboration with @___office , the event brings together a curated group of publishers, graphic designers, architects, landscape architects, and artists. Each contributor was invited to present work that explores, references, or responds to the spaces we inhabit, both constructed and natural, expressed through text, printed matter, and books. Running alongside the book fair is a series of curated panel discussions. These sessions will track the typical progression of a project: from conceptualisation and production to the printing and distribution of work across various mediums. Come down buy some books, hear from interesting people and support independent makers. @threefivefivethree Panel Discussion Saturday 30th May Panel 1 – CONCEPTUALISING + DEVELOPING (11am – 11:45am) Adam Cruickshank @adammcruickshank Paul Mylecharane @p_mylecharane Kate Finning @kfarchitect Panel 2 – PRODUCTION + PRINTING (1pm – 1:45pm) Bridget Chappell @hextape.wav Uriah Gray @u____p Zenobia Ahmed @zenobiaahmed Panel 3 – DISSEMINATING + DISTRIBUTION (3pm – 3:45pm) Odessa Mykytowycz @fiendbookshop Mat Ward @bookshop_by_uro Adrian Hardingham @booksatmanic Flyer design by @jhneumann

Speaker Introduction 04 for our Melbourne Design Week talk(1 week away now :0), we welcome Simon Robinson to discuss Terrain Vague! Simon is an architect and director of OFFICE, a not-for-profit design and research practice. As a registered charity, the studio’s operations, processes, and outputs are bound by a constitution to undertake projects for the public good. The practice also runs 3553, a public event space dedicated to the exploration of ideas that affect the built environment. 3553 fosters collaboration across disciplines, communities, and borders. We look forward to having Simon Robinson with us on Friday 15th of May! Tickets are available now, link in bio. This event will be hosted at 19 Down Street Collingwood in partnership with @dko_architecture See you there! #ngv #melbournedesignweek

We’re honoured to be a part of this year’s Melbourne Design Week, taking place from the 14 — 24 May. As part of the event, we invite you to experience A Place Between — a place for pause, gathering and collective presence. Set within an empty warehouse, this project temporarily reactivates a dormant interior suspended between its past life and what comes next. Once defined by function rather than presence, the building is reintroduced as a space for collective memory. The warehouse is returned to the public and a softer spatial condition emerges. Like a tent lightly placed in the landscape, the intervention forms a threshold between the scale of the city and the scale of the body. The installation reflects architecture’s most fundamental role: creating moments of refuge within the vastness of the city. Through subtle cues of light, sound and atmosphere, the space hosts informal talks, music and conversations, alongside quieter moments for reflection, inviting visitors to experience the building as a temporary place of shelter and shared presence. This is a great industry initiative arranged by @NGVMelbourne and @Creative_Vic which also wouldn’t be possible without our partners @evienstudio , @unioslight , @unios_mec , @cultivated_au , @mark_tuckey , @_studiofranco_ , @entuitive_ , @warbies.farm , @bluepyrenees , @glenlofty_estate_wines , and @vinesmithmelbourne . Swipe to see our full program and secure your free tickets via the Eventbrite link in our bio. MaggZ Image Credits: SpringCity 17852 creative direction + movement direction + talent: @magg._z photography and post production: ccroserio HMUA @raraendoh jewelry @naula_studio silver mask collab piece @claudia.lepik x @naula_studio styling @adaratresna @naula_studio videography @rizromauli assistant @neziapriscila nails @_yanicegianina @NGVMelbourne @Creative_Vic #NGV #MelbourneDesignWeek #CreativeVic #CreativeState

our monthly round-up of photography exhibitions and programs on display in may!

Tonight's the night!! It's been four years since my last solo exhibition in Melbourne and I am so back. You and every single person in Melbourne are invited, encouraged, implored and warmly welcomed to come to the opening of Ten Eighty. Looking at the treatment of Dingoes, currently and historically, this work is all about how settler attitudes remain written in the land, the law and the way we are, for the worse. I've got a new book out with @tallpoppypress and events all weekend.

We are seeking submissions from students, graduates, and early career architects and designers working on projects that foreground material-led adaptive reuse at the scale of both the component and the whole building. Projects may be speculative, unbuilt, or realised. Submissions should demonstrate approaches to documenting, understanding, and enabling reuse practices. This may include the use of digital technologies, material inventories, passports, or other methods that make existing materials visible and usable within design processes. This exhibition aims to highlight the architectural processes, tools, and methods required to enable reuse. We are particularly interested in work that makes these processes explicit and contributes to knowledge sharing and collective learning around material reuse in practice. The exhibition will include contributions from a range of practitioners, to establish a dialogue between practices, academics and emergent voices. The exhibition will be held at 3553 in Collingwood in August. Submission Requirements - 200-word critical project statement - Sample project drawings and images - Short CV - Maximum 4 x A4 pages (PDF, under 20MB) Submissions are due by 11:59pm, 20 May. Please email submissions and any questions to [email protected] #opencall #callforsubmissions

Less than two weeks until my first solo exhibition in a few years opens. Come to @threefivefivethree gallery on Friday May 1st for the exhibition opening and some quick words. On Saturday May 2nd I'll be sitting in the gallery 11-5 and giving an artist talk at 2.30 On Sunday May 3rd I'll be sitting in the gallery from 11-5 and hosting a panel about dingoes at 12 and there'll be a LOVE FRIENDLY DINGO YOU CAN MEET in the gallery from 1.30-3. The whole weekend there'll be books to buy and I'd love to see you there, for a minute, for five, for hours. If you love animals and want to know more - please come along. If you're sick of nature coming last - come along. If you just want to shoot the shit and see what I've made - come along. If you just want to see Australia's largest land predator in the flesh - come along.

Hey Naarm friends, this Friday (10 April) is the launch of aqua nullius, a publication that dismantles the colonial myth of "nobody's waters" by centreing the voices of First Nations people. The publication features work from communities across the continent, including the Central Desert, and includes contributions from Maureen O’Keefe at Running Water Community Press, who we’ve been working with on our water justice campaign. Opening this Friday, 10 April, 6-9pm Floor Talk Saturday 11 April 3pm This book focuses on the concept of aqua nullius, the attempted application of the falsehood of terra nullius to water. It highlights the voices of First Nations people interviewed from across Australia about their cultural relationships to water. “This book is a body of water. In these pages lies a collection of words, printed on to paper, pooling together here like the confluence of a river. Each stream of vibration carrying meaning, from thoughts, to sounds, to shapes, arriving through their respective Country and the bodies, hearts, blood and mind of each custodian. Each speaker has held this knowledge in relationship to kin and community for thousands and thousands of years in an unbroken stream.” Jack Mitchell (editor) This is a publication of over 20 interviews structured around four key themes: storytelling, water injustice, First Nations water management, and overturning aqua nullius. Contributors include; Alex Bond, Colleen Raven Strangways, Dave Wandin, David Collard, Erin O’Donnell, Hozaus Claire, Jack Mitchell, Jim Everett, Joseph Williams Jungarayi, Josie Douglas, Kazan Brown, Maureen O’Keefe, Melissa Kennedy, Norman Frank Jupurrurla, Oliver Costello, Sophia Pearce, Sue Jackson, Tony Birch, Troy McDonald, Noel Nannup, Virginia Marshall. The exhibition, curated by @___office , @u____p , and @samsonossedryver_studio , brings the book’s themes to life through paintings, poetry, film, and artifacts that further explore First Nations’ deep connections to fresh water. For more event details, go to @threefivefivethree and follow the link in their bio

Some more photos from our Volume 04 launch party... We are currently looking for Melbourne architecture students to join the editorial team - link in bio, applications close this Friday. 📷: @magnus.photomaking

👀 Reminder: Applications are open Hosted by @threefivefivethree , I’m facilitating a free workshop for artists and designers making installation or interactive work. The premise is simple: art doesn’t exist without audiences. Over the past decade I’ve seen too many projects get tripped up by adding audience-focused elements at the last minute, when there’s no budget left, no time, and the material is no longer malleable. Bring a project you’re developing and we’ll work through it together, thinking about how people encounter, move through and experience your work in real space. 🗓 24 April, 12–5pm 📍 3553 Space, Collingwood Places are limited so that the conversation can be deep. EOIs close 24 March, 5pm Application link in bio.

Works still in progress … still making and assembling concrete, plaster, acrylic and soft, thick paper - oh, and words (very mixed media). show opens this Friday (13th March), and ends Saturday. We will do a reading on Saturday from 1pm. #3553 @threefivefivethree

OPPORTUNITY FOR ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS MAKING INSTALLATION ART. This free one-day workshop is a space to brush up on all things audience engagement to help inform the creative development of your art installation project. You’ll workshop your own project ideas and leave with a clearer roadmap for connecting with audiences through language, space, design, and systems. ✨ Only 6 places available. Apply via the short application form (link in bio). This is an independent workshop by creative producer Arie Rain Glorie and the program is generously supported by 3553. Both are coming together in the belief that a confident creative community serves the public good. #artistdevelopment #creativepractice #artscommunity #interactiveart #publicart #creativeworkshop