Fumbling Towards Change: Reimagining Built Environment Practice Through Shared Responsibility and Collective Care

This pecha kucha-style event will share the experiences of five designers/thinkers/scholars who are fumbling with how to practice differently in the face of extreme ambivalence*.   

The presenters will provide insight into the different ways of knowing, doing, and becoming they weave into their evolving practice. They will reflect on the values their practice embodies and what it means to craft environments that endeavour to heal, replenish, and enable life. They will share snippets of where they have struggled, failed, and found unexpected joy.  

To conclude the event, the audience will be invited to engage in a facilitated conversation with the presenters to draw connections between the ideas and reflection shared and what it means to reimagine the way we create environments to bring into being a world of shared responsibility, collective care and beauty.  

*In this context, extreme ambivalence is when one is simultaneously deeply invested in and profoundly troubled by existing systems and expectations within built environment design.

Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria