Land Use Inequality: Melbourne's Ecological Future

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Join us for a floor talk at the Land Use Inequality: Melbourne's Ecological Future exhibition.Melbourne’s metropolitan footprint stretches over 10,000km² for just over 5 million people, making it one of the least dense major cities in the world. Driven by population growth and a housing crisis, the city continues to expand through low-rise housing and industrial development, despite thousands of empty buildings across its landscape. While cities worldwide explore ecological transitions in urban form, Melbourne persists in using land without ecological or cultural care, or regulations that consider these aspects across scales. This exhibition documents and questions these practices. It restages Land Use Inequality, the work produced by Monash Urban Lab for the 2025 Milan Triennale, representing Australia, as well as showing other research reveals the impacts of land use planning in Melbourne, advancing an ecological lens that advocates for approaches that repair, retain and reuse.Floor talk: Friday 24 October, 5-6pm, followed by official opening until 8pmThe exhibition is open: Saturday 25 October, 11am-3pm Thursday 30 October to Saturday 1 November, 11am-3pmThis exhibition and talk are part of the <a href="https://www.festivalofurbanism.com/events/fou2025" title="https://www.festivalofurbanism.com/events/fou2025" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Festival of Urbanism 2025</a> <h3>Works in the exhibition include:</h3>Milan Triennale 'Land Use Inequality' - 2 screen didactic and 2 channel video projection Monash Urban Lab / Baracco+Wright ArchitectsConnected Corridors - research, comprising 1,612 kilometres of possible bio-corridors across metropolitan Melbourne OFFICE / MSD (Melbourne School of Design)ReUse - database of vacant buildings in Melbourne, interactive/laptop, photographs Mauro Baracco / Monash Architecture1075 Houses/3225 Trees - video documenting demolition of 1075 houses and 3225 trees in the City of Boroondara Louise Wright<a href="https://www.monash.edu/mada/monash-urban-lab" title="https://www.monash.edu/mada/monash-urban-lab" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Monash Urban Lab</a> researchers <a href="https://www.monash.edu/mada/architecture/people/nigel-bertram" title="https://www.monash.edu/mada/architecture/people/nigel-bertram" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Professor Nigel Bertram</a> and <a href="https://www.monash.edu/mada/architecture/people/catherine-murphy" title="https://www.monash.edu/mada/architecture/people/catherine-murphy" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Catherine Murphy</a>, focus on the ways cities are made, the way they transform over time and how we can reset, repair and reimagine our relationship with the built environment.<a href="https://www.baraccowright.com/" title="https://www.baraccowright.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Baracco+Wright Architects</a> work over a diverse range of locations from conglomerate inner urban areas to sensitive rural and coastal environments, exploring how to make architecture that is generous, opportunistic and connected to a local physical environment as well as the non physical mixed conditions of each context.<a href="https://www.baraccowright.com/" title="https://www.baraccowright.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mauro Baracco</a> is a practising architect and co-Director of Baracco+Wright Architects, who currently lectures at Monash Architecture. His research is focused on urban resilience through cross-programming and integration of open and built space.<a href="https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/" title="https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MSD</a> undertakes research on urban environmental policy, nature-based solutions and climate change for liveable and inclusive cities.<a href="https://office.org.au/" title="https://office.org.au/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">OFFICE</a> is a not-for-profit multidisciplinary design and research practice based in Melbourne. Its projects span the intersections of built form, research, discourse and education.<a href="https://www.monash.edu/mada/architecture/people/louise-wright" title="https://www.monash.edu/mada/architecture/people/louise-wright" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Louise Wright</a> is Practice Professor in the Monash Urban Lab and co-Director of Baracco+Wright Architects. Her research and practice investigates a reparative approach to architecture, grounded by spatial conditions and landscapes through built works, exhibitions and publications. Banner Image: Photo: Still from video ‘East’ by Eugene Perepletchikov Land use inequality between species, Melbourne, Australia. The landscape of the endangered Southern Brown Bandicoot cleared and fragmented by continued development of low rise housing estates on the eastern edge of Melbourne, 2025.

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