Satellite Events

Living Cities Film Series

In collaboration with Open House Melbourne & ACMI

Trepidation in the presence of abandoned, dilapidated monuments. Angst in the sound of a voice from the future that guides us through a landscape devoid of humankind. But there is hope, too. In our biology, our interconnectedness with nature. And there is hope in imagining alternative tomorrows.

Living Cities Forum is proud to partner with Open House Melbourne and ACMI to present a suite of film screenings that speak to the Forum’s 2021 theme, The Long View—a theme that asks how different perspectives on time can affect the growth of our cities, and the shape of our futures.

Imagined Cities: Urban Futures Prototyped through Film is a series of short films presented by speculative architect and director Liam Young, and applies a gradient of lenses that examine the macro and the micro of our presence on this planet. 

The series draws upon the cares and concerns of future city makers to present us with both stark and uplifting visions of possible urban destinies to provoke and rally us at a time when future failure can seem inevitable.

This Is Public

Hosted by Open House Melbourne

This event focuses on the need to find new ways to reconnect and transform the ways in which we live and work together. This Is Public will host speakers with different backgrounds and perspectives and seeks to answer big questions about the role of policy, climate change and architecture in the future of cities, amongst other thought-provoking topics. 

This Is Public is a hybrid event with a live audience in the inspirational spaces of The Capitol theatre. The event will be recorded and live streamed on the Open House Melbourne and The Capitol websites, and later produced as a podcast. Focusing on the central theme, Reconnect, this year OHM asks us to reconsider the way we will occupy our city and to envisage new ways of designing and adapting our buildings and infrastructure as we emerge from the impact of the COVID era.  

Guests can expect a series of thought provoking and insightful presentations beginning with an address from Lord Mayor Sally Capp, and an introduction to the OHM 2021 theme, Reconnect.

Speakers include Jefa Greenaway and Tristan Wong, Jill Garner (Victorian Government Architect), Nicole Kalms (XYX Lab), Liam Young with Ewan McEoin, and more.

More speakers to be announced soon.