Professor Mel Dodd

Mel Dodd is an architect and academic who explores practice-based pedagogy and research in architecture that bridges the gap between the academic institution and wider communities, government and society. She has led architecture departments at a range of institutions internationally including at Central Saint Martins in London, and is currently Professor and Head of Department of Architecture, MADA, Monash University. Her publications include ‘Live Projects: Designing with People’ (RMIT Press, 2012) and most recently ‘Spatial Practices: Modes of Action and Engagement with the City (Routledge 2019).

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.