The Future Suburb Symposium has ended.
Recordings from this event will be published in the coming weeks. We have an exciting program of events and exhibitions coming up - see what's happening next.
The life of today's suburbs is interesting, complex, and diverse, but the suburban environments we are building are not.
This is the central paradox of the contemporary Australian suburb: its social life has become more inventive, more culturally layered, and more economically dynamic, while its built form remains stubbornly generic, repetitive, and under-serviced.
The Future Suburb symposium seeks to approach these questions from first principles, by exploring six interconnected aspects of the suburbs: the Life of the suburbs, the Image of the suburbs, the suburbs as a System, the Modes of Practice required to operate in the suburbs, new Designs for the suburbs, and a series of speculative design Provocations for the future of the suburbs.
Together, this will form a vision of the future suburb that is inclusive, exciting, and better reflects the real needs and ambitions of its residents.
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Ticketing information
Full price
$77.00
Concession*
$38.50
Online
$22.00
Ticket price includes morning tea, lunch and networking event refreshments on Friday 2 October.
*Concession rates are available to students, concession card holders and people who are working part-time or on a career break. Proof of valid concession or student ID is required on arrival.
Session highlight
Suburban Provocations
Presented by Naarm Architecture Foundation
Join us as we bring together ten emerging practitioners, academics and recent graduates for a ‘Pecha Kucha’-style rapid-fire series of presentations of speculative provocations for the future of the suburbs.
These provocations will not simply ask what the suburb is, but what else it could become: stranger, denser, greener, more collective, more generous, more unruly, more alive.
Featured speakers
We're excited to welcome the following guests to this year's Symposium.
View the full list of speakers and check out the full program.
Martino Tattara
Martino Tattara is an Italian architect, researcher, and educator, and co-founder of Dogma, an architectural practice engaged in the exploration of architecture’s political and social potential. He holds a PhD in Urbanism and is currently Assistant Professor of Architecture at KU Leuven in Belgium.
Tattara’s work focuses on the development of collective housing, the critique of contemporary urbanism, and the conceptualization of alternative architectural frameworks. Through both academic work and design practice, he advocates for architecture as a medium of critical inquiry and social engagement. With Dogma, he has contributed to numerous international exhibitions and publications.
Pier Vittorio Aureli
Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect and educator. Together with Martino Tattara, he is the co-founder of Dogma, an office for architecture based in Brussels. Dogma has developed a specific interest in large-scale interventions, urban research, and especially domestic space and its potential for transformation. He studied at the Istituto di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) and later at the Berlage Institute and TU Delft where he earned his PhD.
Aureli currently teaches at the école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory Theory and Project of Domestic space and teaches courses on History and Theories of Architecture. He has taught at the Architectural Association in London, Yale School of Architecture, Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, Columbia University in New York.
Willow Lung
Dr Lung is a scholar of equitable community development, economic inclusion, suburban transformation, and urban policy.
Ryan Conroy
Ryan is an architect based in Los Angeles and a principal of Hair Conroy, a practice working at the edge of architecture and the disciplines that shape it.
Kaylie Salvatori
Kaylie works to reconnect herself with Country, Indigenous knowledge and community through her design processes.
