Alexis Kalagas

Alexis Kalagas is Head of Public Programs at Molonglo, and leads an advanced architecture studies unit at MADA. Previously a foreign policy advisor with the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet, he worked on design and research projects across Europe, Latin America, and Africa with the Zürich-based practice Urban-Think Tank. He has pursued his interest in the complex economic, social, and technological forces reshaping our experience of urban space and the home as a Harvard GSD Richard Rogers Fellow, a Future Architecture Fellow, and as a participant in the Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.