Festival of Diversity and Inclusion
Join the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning community from the 5th to the 8th of September to celebrate the diverse and inclusive cultures and perspectives that make up our faculty. Take part in a range of interactive events, activities and installations throughout the week that will expand your understanding of place and the many ways of life and community that represent you and us --- our students, staff and visitors.
The Festival will include a cultural dinner, drawing sessions, student made spaces, walking tours and more!
| When | Event | Leads | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAY 1 Monday 5 September, 2022 10.00 AM | Festival opening with Professor Julie Willis, Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning | Julie Willis | Atrium, Level 1, Glyn Davis Building MAP |
| DAY 1 Monday 5 September, 2022 6.00 PM | Take Up Space! Celebrating diversity and inclusion demands recognition that the experiences of minority women within universities can oftentimes be exclusionary both, academically and socially. Our event will be a social gathering that celebrates the ability of minorities to thrive in a predominantly white space and encourages them to continue to take up space! | Fatima El Samad & Qaisara Mohamad | Basement Glyn Davis Building MAP |
| DAY 2 Tuesday 6 September, 2022 11.00 AM - 1.00 PM | Campus on Country Every student who walks into the MSD, onto the Parkville campus, steps onto Wurundjeri Country. By collaborating with experts involved in the ongoing reconciliation journey at the University of Melbourne, this event will involve a tour through focal points of embedded Indigenous recognition across the campus. The tour will highlight recent constructions that both recognise and celebrate Country and Indigenous sovereignty, as well as ecological features that demonstrate how Country is present on campus. Students and staff will then be invited to join a yarning circle and collaborative art activity to represent what they have learned through art or writing. These representations will be collected for display within the Diversity and Inclusion Festival. | Rechelle Brookes & Kate Donaldson | Meet at Melbourne Connect courtyard, 700 Swanston St, Carlton MAP Tour ends in the Atrium, Level 1, Glyn Davis Building |
| DAY 3 Wednesday 7 September, 2022 Afternoon tea 4.00 PM | Neighbourhood The 'Neighbourhood' of working desk spaces dedicated to students is a space for cultivating studio culture that is open for any year level and discipline. This event is sold out. | Saran Kim | Maker Space, Baldwin Spencer building MAP |
| DAY 3 Wednesday 7 September, 2022 6.30 PM - 7.30 PM | The City at Night This event places a spotlight on Sydney Road’s night-time economy, acknowledging the diversity of urban experiences and the need for greater research to avoid assumptions and further exclude groups from feeling safe at night. Sydney Road accommodates the culturally and linguistically diverse, and the LGBTIQ+ communities, providing safe places for people to come together. However, stepping onto the sidewalk and into public space, do our streets represent that same perception of cultural safety at night? If our cities are to accommodate the diversity of urban experiences we desire, the city streets and its sidewalks need to reflect the inclusivity of the people activating these spaces after dark. | Jesse Mentha | Atrium, Level 1, Glyn Davis Building MAP |
| DAY 4 Thursday 8 September, 2022 10.00 AM - 12.00 PM | An Invitation to Scribble and Doodle! Come and draw or write something about your culture, about yourself; stay for a couple of minutes if you wanna share the stories behind, we have food & drinks prepared; or walk away quietly straight after, if you believe the stories are better kept with a bit of privacy people might wanna take a guess tho, feel free to stop by again and check what they left after. | Yutong (Kelly) Jin | Leo Simon foyer, Level 1 (off the Atrium near the east external stairs), Glyn Davis Building MAP |
| DAY 4 Thursday 8 September, 2022 All day | R U OK Day feed and pledge ABP Staff & Students are invited to Morning and Afternoon Tea in the Atrium. These will be held as a bake sale, with gold coin donations going to Beyond Blue. Baked goods for the bake sale will be supplied by STREAT Bakery, a non-profit bakery that helps disadvantaged youth. We invite students to take the R U OK Day pledge, pledging to check-in on someone on the day. As a thank you, each student who takes the pledge will receive 2 x coffee vouchers for Standing Room, so they can invite a friend out to coffee and ask if they’re okay. We will also hold Pizza Lunch in the Atrium, with gold coin donations going to Beyond Blue. | Maria Lodola-Price and Chris Lambert | Atrium, Glyn Davis Building MAP |
| DAY 4 Thursday 8 September, 2022 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM | Stories of Home: Art Workshop This art workshop encourages people to slow down, to become curious about art-making materials, the space around us and the diversity of stories - both personal and collective - of the places we call home. Through stories of home, we begin to understand what is important to us and our wellbeing, our identity, our worldview and our feeling of safety and belonging. This may be different for everyone and at any given moment. A sense of home may be a childhood memory, or a longing, an embodied sense experienced through sound, colour or texture, a familiar feeling, a connection to land, a place of daily rituals, or a space to daydream, imagine or hide. In sharing the range of stories we are met with our differences and similarities emerge. Everyone is welcome. No previous art-making experience is required, and all materials will be provided. Explore these themes and connect with staff and students in this art-making workshop. If you want to take this opportunity to try out painting, making with clay or collage, this is for you. The workshop is made up of a group and personal creative time. The workshop is facilitated by arts therapy student Magdalena Siliwinska, who is completing her Masters of Therapeutic Arts Practice with Miecat Institute, Melbourne. Bookings are essential, and the workshop will accommodate a maximum of 15 people. Registrations required via Eventbrite. | Magdalena Sliwinska | Room 449, Level 4, Glyn Davis Building MAP |
| DAY 4 Thursday 8 September, 2022 5.00 PM | Melbourne School of Design Research Student Association Cultural Dinner The MSD Research Student Association (RSA) will be hosting a shared cultural dinner celebrating and learning about cultures from the wide variety of countries from which our cohort originate. The event is open to all MSD Graduate Researchers. The RSA will be purchasing specialist cultural foods to share. Participants will also be invited to bring along a cultural dish and share photos that represent their home country to be displayed during the event. Registration is required for this event for catering purposes. Please register via this Google Sheet. | MSD RSA | Staff Kitchen, Level 4, Glyn Davis building MAP |