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As an architecture student at Melbourne School of Design, Sarah Ball pictured working in a small firm focusing on residential projects. Now the Principal, Global Sector Leader – Education at Woods Bagot, she focuses on spaces that shape student experiences.

Students returned to Melbourne School of Design this February to find a sleek, mirrored cube had emerged in the Andrew Kee King Fun Gallery. It forms the centrepiece of the school’s newest makerspace: the New Experimental Technology Lab (NExT Lab).

Place is important to Indigenous people and yet there are only a handful of Aboriginal architects in Australia. Jefa Greenaway is working to change that.

The modern metropolitan cities of the world are a classic example of living systems. Like any other living system, these cities have life pouring through their veins in the form of road networks and other infrastructure systems. These systems inhale and exhale as people commute to work in the morning and back to their homes in the evening.

The Melbourne Housing Expo is part of a century old tradition of international building exhibitions that explore ideas about living, dwelling and building in cities and regions. It aims to affect lasting transformation of the everyday practices of housing provision through experiment and public engagement.

Thrive is a transdisciplinary research hub. Our vision is that it must be possible to have a sustainable, thriving built environment for people and ecosystems. The hub uses applied industry-relevant research to create visible outcomes in the world.

Globally entrapped in the “modern religion of development”, cities manifest a wide spectrum of housing issues reflecting their respective economic development stages and socio-cultural specificities.