MTalks
Igniting Presence – A forum on Inflection Vol.08

Free!

All visitors over the age of 12 must show their COVID-19 vaccination certificate as a condition of entry.

For full details on staying COVIDsafe at MPavilion 2021, read our Covid-19 Safe Plan

This event is now complete. If you want to revisit the talk, visit our Library, or subscribe to the MPavilion podcast via iTunes, Pocketcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts.

Recordings

Watch more

Due to adjusted collaborator availability, this event now forms part of our online program.

A discussion by Inflection Journal centred on Volume 08’s theme of Presence.

How does the power of ‘presence’ shape architecture and place-making today?

Black Summer (2019-2020) illuminated the phenomenon of the Australian bushfire as a violent, destructive and uncontrollable presence on the global media stage. The burning, ostensibly catastrophic flame-light of the Australian bushfire has become synonymous with trauma, for its immediately perceivable harmful effects on animals, humans and the built environment. However, Black Summer has also catalysed important discussions on the rich and ancient history of fire as an ecological tool, wielded as a promoter of biological diversity and flourishing ecosystems. Catastrophe can illuminate the ironies and contradictions of an anthropocentric existence and spur us to challenge our approach to reconstruction, erasure, memory and place. In times of disaster or rapid social (and climate) change, how can we understand architecture as a force that exposes unseen conditions? How can proponents of the built environment shine a light on hidden or latent perspectives to reify the power of place, land and people?

Join the editors of Inflection Journal for this MTalks event as they host a conversation of academic, creative and student contributors to the latest edition of the publication, ‘Presence.’ Through interdisciplinary discussion, this event seeks to uncover the power of presence in contemporary architecture and place-making and to bring together the many voices of Inflection Volume 08.

Please note: 

There will be an in person Inflection launch party at MPavilion on the Thursday 9 December. Click here for more info about the party.

*All talks are available as podcasts or videos via our library after the premiere date. 

 

In collaboration with

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.