ArchiTeam 2025 Conference

EXPANDING PRACTICE: 100% Architecture is the fourth biennial ArchiTeam conference, this year's conference will be a hybrid event online and face-to-face at the Melbourne Museum on Friday 16 May 2025.

EXPANDING PRACTICE: 100% Architecture is a forum aimed to empower small practice architects to move beyond ‘business as usual’ and expand their influence in shaping the built environment and communities across Australia. The conference will feature engaging sessions that explore how architects can define their purpose, embrace collaboration, and adopt alternative and non-traditional approaches to practice.

The conference will be creatively directed by Nick Johnston (Session Architecture), Shae Parker McCashen (Green Sheep Collective), and Jane Cameron Finlay (Jane Cameron Architects) and aims to empower small practice architects to expand their influence in shaping the built environment and communities across Australia.

Don't miss out on this one-day hybrid conference that will bring architects and allied professionals together to share insights on entrepreneurship, collaboration, business strategy, and sustainable innovation to achieve positive and fulfilling outcomes

The conference is organised into three themes:

PURPOSE IN PRACTICE | COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE | EXPANDED PRACTICE

1, PURPOSE IN PRACTICE
This session will delve into how a clear sense of purpose can drive meaningful change in small practices. It will explore how identifying and leveraging this purpose can help architects expand their practices, offer unique services, and achieve greater success.

Speakers:

• Rebecca Caldwell
• Courtney Holm

Panel discussion

• Warwick Mihaly (moderator)
• Rebecca Caldwell
• Courtney Holm
• Mick Moloney
• Kate FitzGerald
  

2, COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
This session will highlight the transformative potential of collaboration across disciplines in small practices. By examining cross-industry examples, we’ll explore how architects can be agile and proactive, using collaboration to enhance their projects, create new opportunities, and strengthen their businesses.

Speakers:

• Dr Danièle Hromek
• Ross Harding

Panel discussion

• Mick Moloney (moderator)
• Dr Danièle Hromek
• Ross Harding
• Warwick Mihaly
• Kate FitzGerald

3, EXPANDED PRACTICE
This session will focus on how small practice architects can broaden their impact by embracing approachability, offering alternative services, and championing affordable sustainable design. Discussions will center on engaging communities, making architecture more accessible, and adopting a mindset that enables architects to contribute to 100% of projects across Australia.

Speakers:

• Sarah Lebner
• Christopher Haddad

Panel discussion

• Kate FitzGerald (moderator)
• Sarah Lebner
• Christopher Haddad
• Warwick Mihaly
• Mick Moloney

Time: 8.30am - 5.30pm

Afterparty (for all face-to-face ticket holders): 6.00pm onwards. 

CPD Points: 8 Formal Points

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this Conference, participants will have gained:

1. Define and Harness Purpose – Understand how a clear sense of purpose can drive meaningful change and business growth in small architectural practices.
2. Expand Practice Potential – Learn how identifying and leveraging purpose can help architects offer unique services and reach broader markets.
3. Embrace Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration – Explore how collaboration across industries can enhance project outcomes, create new opportunities, and strengthen business resilience.
4. Adopt Agile and Proactive Strategies – Gain insights into how small practice architects can remain flexible and innovative in a rapidly changing industry.
5. Enhance Community Engagement – Discover ways to make architecture more accessible by engaging with communities and offering alternative services.
6. Champion Sustainable and Affordable Design – Learn how small practice architects can contribute to sustainable design solutions that are both impactful and financially accessible.
7. Maximize Industry Influence – Develop strategies to ensure architects can contribute meaningfully to a wider range of projects across Australia.
   
   

AACA 2021 NSCA Performance Criteria:
Practice Management and Professional Conduct
This unit of competency encompasses a holistic understanding of the organisation of the profession, practice and business of architecture, with the objective of providing value through sustainable, timely and effective professional services in accordance with the ethical and legal obligations of an architect to clients, colleagues, employees and to broader communities.
Units of Competency: PC1, PC2, PC3, PC4, PC5, PC6, PC7, PC8, PC9, PC10, PC11, PC12, PC13, PC14, PC15, PC16

Project Initiation and Conceptual Design
This unit of competency encompasses the intelligent, creative, iterative and culturally responsive processes of initiating a project and the early stages of design. This involves research, analysis and the exploration of approaches, design ideas and alternative solutions. It leads to a design concept that meets the client's brief, respects Country and is capable of compliance with planning controls and construction codes.
Units of Competency:PC17, PC 18, PC25, PC27, PC28,PC29, PC30, PC31, PC33, PC34, PC35

Detailed Design and Construction Documentation
This unit of competency encompasses the process of developing the design through research, detailed assessment of options and the integration of technical solutions, value and cost control processes to maintain or enhance the design intent. The final proposal is cohesive, fully described and resolved to achieve value and cost objectives, and compliance with planning controls and construction costs. 
Units of Competency:PC36, PC39, PC40, PC41, PC43, PC44, PC45

Design Delivery and Construction Phase Services
This unit of competency encompasses the provision of services to support the process of project execution through construction. This may occur through a variety of building procurement methods and construction contracts. The form of construction contract may establish different expectations and obligations upon the architect and may include contract administration services. Typically, all contract types includes the timely and cost-effective management of design delivery, review and inspection process.
Units of Competency:PC48, PC50, PC52, PC53, PC54, PC59, PC60

FAQ

I won't be able to make it to the conference, or might miss part of it, will there be a recording that I can catch up on?

Yes, there will be a recording. All ticket holders will receive a link to view it the following week alongside their CPD quiz to receive points. For anyone who isn't registered, it will be made available to purchase on CPD Online in a month's time.

How do I get my CPD points?
A CPD quiz will be sent alongside the session recording which you can complete. The quiz will be open for 2 weeks. Certificates will be sent out to those who have completed the quiz after it is closed. Please ensure to check your junk emails 

I no longer wish to attend the session, can I cancel my booking?
Yes, you can cancel and receive a refund by going to your Humanitix Order Confirmation email > Manage Order > Refund/Cancel.

More Info:
NOTE: This event may be photographed and filmed (in-person), and/or recorded (virtual). Your recorded image may be used by ArchiTeam Cooperative in printed and electronic publications for promotional and educational purposes. By attending this event you are agreeing to ArchiTeam Cooperative using your image for these purposes.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Formal CPD points will only be issued on completion of any written requirements. Attending the session alone will not earn you formal CPD points. ArchiTeam reserves the right to alter the dates, speakers or venue of an event. Cancellations or refunds must be requested 48 hours prior to the event, no refunds will be given after this time. People attending in replace of a member must pay the difference for non member pricing. Start and end times are an estimation.

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