A New Normal Returns
Melbourne Design Week x Boyd Baker House, Long Forest
A New Normal returns with an epic five days of festivities at the Boyd Baker House, Long Forest. This unique experience will bring together leading architects and creative practitioners to come together from across Australia to showcase a range of projects in motion to help transform our cities.
On exhibition, the next round of 12 projects with each architect selecting a room across the Robin Boyd / Roy Grounds compound. A New Normal will take the opportunity to lay down the required policy to transform the city into self-sufficiency by 2030.
This curated program of talented industry leaders will be showcased through a series of guided tours, talks, lunches and exhibitions is one not to be missed, with limited tickets available each day.
The Program
Day 01: Built Projects & Projects Underway
8:30AM - Bus Trip & Site Tour
10:30AM - Opening Welcome
11:00AM - Wilam Ngarang
Presented by Michael Mcleod, Kaia McCarty-Smith & Jake Milgrom-Marabel
11:20AM - Balam Balam
Presented by Victoria Reeves
11:40AM - Plumbers & Gastfitters
Presented by Rachel Nolan
12:00PM - Sanders Place
Presented by Nigel Bertam & Jake Milgrom-Marabel
12:30PM - Lunch
2:10PM - Matter House & Pony Fish
Presented by Andrew Low & Andrew Mackinnon
2:30PM - Master Builders Victoria
Presented by Quino Holland & Bettina Robinson
2:50PM - Blackwood Street
Presented by Clare Cousins
3:10PM - Hotel Optimismo
Presented by Rachel Nolan
3:30PM - Group Discussion
4:00 PM - Aperitivo
Day 02: Water, Landscape & Biodiversity
8:30AM - Bus Trip & Site Tour
10:30AM - Finding Infinity Introduction
11:00AM - Participatory Architecture
Presented by Greg Burgess
11:40AM - Cultivating Country
Presented by Winsor Kerr & SBLA
12:00PM - Panel Discussion
With Greg Burgess, Simone Bliss & Bradley Kerr
12:30PM - Lunch
2:10PM - (Re)valuing Landscape
Presented by Oculus
2:30PM - Panel Discussion
With Janis Fischer, Gail Hall & Stephanie Sirianni
2:50PM - Water Treatment Plant Civic Infrastructure
Presented by Muir Architecture
3:10PM - Panel Discussion
Panel to be announced
3:30PM - Group Discussion
4:00 PM - Aperitivo
Day 03: Energy, Transport & Retrofit
8:30AM - Bus Trip & Site Tour
10:30AM - Rob Adams Introduction
11:00AM - Retrofitting vacant buildings into mix programs with residential
Presented by Baracco+Wright
11:20AM - Retrofitting Strata Housing
Presented by Nigel Bertam & Esther Stewart
11:40AM - Retrofitting Public Housing
Presented by Nigel Bertram & Chris Kelly
12:00PM - Panel Discussion
Panel to be announced
12:30PM - Lunch
2:10PM - Middle ring community co-working
Presented by Public Realm Lab
2:30PM - Panel Discussion
With Rob Adams, Knowles Tivendale, Bianca Elencevski & Anna Maskiel
2:50PM - Energy Transition
Presented by Ross Harding & Will Young
3:10PM - Jefa Greenaway
3:30PM - Group Discussion
4:00 PM - Aperitivo
Day 04: Carbon, Housing & Education
8:30AM - Bus Trip & Site Tour
10:30AM - Finding Infinity Introduction
11:00AM - NSW Pattern Book
Presented by Rachel Neeson & Stephen Neille
11:20AM - Net Zero Affordable Housing
Presented by Peter Brew & Simone Koch
11:40AM - Future Construction
Presented by Daryl Patterson
12:00PM - Panel Discussion
With Abbie Galvin, David MacLennan, Abbie Galvin, Dan Hill & Jane Keddie
12:30PM - Lunch
2:10PM - Mary Featherston, Benjamin Baker & Phoebe Baker
2:30PM - Preparing the Next Generation
With Dan Hill, Mel Dodd & John Doyle
2:50PM - Schools of the Future
Presented by Kosloff Architecture
3:10PM - Panel Discussion
With Mary Featherson, Stefan Preuss & Kosloff Architecture
3:30PM - Group Discussion
4:00 PM - Aperitivo
Day 05: Circularity
8:30AM - Bus Trip & Site Tour
10:30AM - Finding Infinity Introduction
11:00AM - Circular Victoria: A New Economy
Presented to be announced
11:20AM - Quarry Rehabilitation through Future Material Production
Presented by KTA, Openwork & Josh Riesel
11:40AM - Panel Discussion
With Mick Alvisse, Jill Garner & Alan Pert
12:30PM - Lunch
2:10PM - Closed Loop Plastics Recycling Centre
Presented by Jeremy McLeod, Breathe Architecture
2:30PM - The Oval Economy
Presented by NH Architecture
2:50PM - Elephants Paths, Art & Defiance
Presented by Kylie Stillman
3:10PM - Panel Discussion
With Jeremy McLeod, Paul Charteris & Chris Jensen
3:30PM - Group Discussion
4:00 PM - Aperitivo