Parts of Practice: Pedagogies

The entanglement of architecture practice and design education has a long history with many renowned architects supporting the early stages of their careers through critical engagement with tertiary pedagogies.

Studio and electives enable emerging practitioners to test ideas, briefs and methodologies outside of their architectural practice and explore these with a student cohort of young thinkers of the upcoming generation. Yet, pedagogical practice remains largely unacknowledged despite its generative and enriching contribution to an architect’s practice.

Join Simona Falvo, James Bowman Fletcher, and Anna Jankovic to hear about the multiple ways that pedagogical practice is a valuable and integral part of practice. This panel discussion will focus on the symbiotic relationship between emerging practitioners and architectural education, with a focus on the multiple, and often subtle, ways in which practice and teaching influence each other.

Panellists:

Simona Falvo is an architect and director of Trower Falvo Architects, and a design educator at the University of Melbourne. Simona believes in design which recognises history yet is committed to the contemporary, design which celebrates function, space and proportion, and design which is responsive to place and context.

James Bowman Fletcher is a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Monash University, a practising architect, and an editor of Memo Review Architecture. His research interests include architecture and art, architecture and building, and architecture and words. James’ recent written and built work has been published locally in Union and internationally in Ardeth. He is the current Coordinator and Chief Examiner of the Foundation Studio 2 unit in the Department of Architecture.

Anna Jankovic is an architect, director of Simulaa, and Lecturer at RMIT Architecture, where she currently serves as Program Manager for the Bachelor of Architectural Design degree. Her work and research explores how architecture might respond and act in a world defined by environmental limits, interrelational systems, and layered temporalities. Recent projects include the exhibition Deep Time Real Time (2025) at Design Hub Gallery, and the publication Notes from a finite world: A study of post-carbon paradigms for architecture (2024).

This event is organised and facilitated by Sophie Adsett

Exhibition open daily: Tuesday 23 September - Friday 28 November 2025, 10am - 4pm.
The Design Gallery (formerly the Dulux Gallery), Ground Floor, Glyn Davis Building (133).
The Glyn Davis Building is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any questions about your visit, email us at msd-exhibitions@unimelb.edu.au.

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