The Faculty is proud to present our #2024Symposium Climate Action in Cities. Come together with local & global voices from academia, government & industry to drive urgent & meaningful change across the built environment. 12–13 Nov, register → unimelb.me/3XrkDYQ

Philosopher Dr Lucy Benjamin University of Melbourne is the 2024 recipient of the Ernst and Rosemarie Keller Award. The award will support new research on how the architecture of memorials can help us understand loss. Melbourne School of Design bit.ly/3TysaUq

Calling all Swifties 🎤 👢 Our symposium on the 24th of October features a Keynote discussing the impact of Taylor Swift on Melbourne, in the context of a local music sector in crisis. Register here: go.unimelb.edu.au/8p78

🛴 Paris, Melbourne, Sunshine Coast – cities the world over are banning shared e-scooters. What does this tell us about the viability of Product Service System models & could our transition to a circular economy be at threat? Kebir M. Jemal dives deep → unimelb.me/3TBC6wo

New from our Prof Anoma Pieris with Daniel Milne & Beatrice Trefalt in @BritJnlMilHist: Prisoners of the Asia-Pacific War – Forgotten Locales, Transimperial Links & Selective Memorialisation → unimelb.me/3MZbfqi

🌱 Imagine living in a city brimming with biodiverse habitats & green spaces. Our Melbourne Biodiversity Network project with OFFICE has identified under-utilised green corridors 8 times the size of Melbourne! → unimelb.me/3Br7es9 @BushJude @CityOfSound Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation

Can you imagine living in a city brimming with biodiverse habitats and green public spaces? 🌱 Stage One of Melbourne School of Design's Melbourne Biodiversity Network project with OFFICE, supported by the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation, has identified under-utilised green corridors eight

Melbourne School of Design 2024 symposium: Climate Action in Cities. We're bringing together local and global voices to campaign for urgent and meaningful change in the built environment. Keynotes from Sarah Ichioka and Deb Chachra + more besides. 12–13 Nov sign up! → unimelb.me/3XrkDYQ

🏃🏻‍♀️ What are the spatial geographies of women runners & how are they limited relative to men? Kathryn Davidson & Stella Radford have studied how the urban form influences where women run in our city's north for UPR_Journal → unimelb.me/3NwQh2y

Before the launch of Yumi fasem taet (We hold on tight) tomorrow, Sebastian Antoine Salay reflects on his work with migrants, using photovoice to record how they make the city home → unimelb.me/4dTgMd3 #UniMelbPursuit

<72% is the amount of greenhouse gas emissions urban areas are responsible for. We invite all built environment professionals to join our 2024 Symposium: Climate Action in Cities. Let's work together & adapt the world around us, register now → unimelb.me/3XrkDYQ

In Fitzroy 1974, photographer Robert Ashton captured the working-class suburb's transformation into a (now outpriced) bohemia. David Nichollls reflects University of Melbourne theconversation.com/fitzroy-1974-a…

The annual #UniMelb Sustainability Awards celebrate professional staff, academics and students who have made valuable contributions to sustainability across various disciplines, and we'd like to say thanks to: 👉 Ruby Graovac's project delivery team from Science at Melbourne whose project

🔥 How to retrofit a home for bushfire protection? Born of #BlackSummer, one of the most intense fire seasons on record, The Bushfire Retrofit Toolkit was developed to do exactly that. Learn how online 12 Nov → unimelb.me/3wsyrsi @NetworkedCities UTS

Ahead of #Symposium2024, @Sarah_Ichioka talks to ArchitectureAu about transitioning to a regenerative mindset, underscoring how carbon reduction is but one aspect of #ClimateAction → unimelb.me/4ego3ns Join us 12 Nov, register → unimelb.me/3XrkDYQ

What if there was a way to spark climate action in cities that embraced biodiversity, housing, reconciliation & equity? With #Symposium2024 12 Nov, @CityOfSound speaks to The Fifth Estate about an ecosystem approach → unimelb.me/3NOo3Ad Register → unimelb.me/3XrkDYQ

🏛️ The Shrine of Remembrance opened 90 years ago today. Read Dr Katti Williams' reflection on meeting the descendants of its architects – Philip Hudson & James Wardrop – & discovering the family treasures featured in Designing Remembrance → unimelb.me/4hKpjSI

As leaders assemble at COP29 Azerbaijan, a global network of researchers has issued a call to action for alignment between science & policy to achieve net zero across the building & real estate sector. Learn more → unimelb.me/4fCWm9x Greg Foliente Aalto University Shmoopy

Welcome to those joining us for #Symposium2024: Climate Action in Cities today. We invite you to share your insights & experience with us here or on Instagram & LinkedIn – & look forward to listening & learning with you. Full program → unimelb.me/3XrkDYQ

Researchers at University of Melbourne and the Pacific Climate Change Centre have received $4.9M from Wellcome to strengthen Pacific communities’ resilience to the health impacts of climate change. Learn more about this vital initiative → unimelb.me/3O5NaPj