Prof Michele Acuto

Prof Michele Acuto is Director of the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne where he is also Professor in Urban Politics and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, where he teaches the Melbourne School of Design’s Studio N(ight). A keen researcher and practitioner of urban policy and innovation, not least after dark, he recently co-authored Managing Cities at Night and How to Build a Global City, and co-hosts the Cities After Dark podcast, and currently serves as a member of the City of Melbourne’s Nighttime Economy Advisory Committee.

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.