2021

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Here’s what took place in 2021.

Life after MADA

22 Sep 2021, 1–2pm

Caulfield campus

Queer Geology

15–25 Sep 2021

MADA Gallery

Inside Monash: Seminar

8 Sep 2021, 6.30–7.30pm

Caulfield campus

Walking, talking and accountability

8 Sep 2021, 1–2pm

Online

Art writing and MeMO Review

1 Sep 2021, 1–2pm

Caulfield campus

Get Ready to Apply Expo 2021

1 Sep 2021

Online

Artist Hoda Afshar and Curator Nur Shkembi in conversation

25 Aug 2021, 1–2pm

Online

Monash Fine Art, Design and Architecture Experience Day

21 Aug 2021, 10.30am – 12.30pm

Caulfield campus

Malleable Structures

18 Aug 2021, 1–2pm

Online

Determined Sensibilities

11 Aug 2021, 1–2pm

Online

Form x Content

11 Aug – 22 Sep 2021

Disorganised: Bus Projects, Liquid Architecture and West Space

4 Aug 2021, 1–2pm

Postponed - new date announced soon

Art, Design and Architecture PhD Information Session 2021

29 Jul 2021, 5–6pm

Webinar

Digital Open Day 2021

28 Jul 2021, 5–9pm

Online

Design Talk: Michael Trudgeon

26 Jul 2021, 5–6pm

Online

Living Cities Forum

22 Jul 2021, 9am – 5pm

The Edge, Federation Square

ICONIC Australian Design

9 Jul – 1 Aug 2021

Willaura Modern

Jo Scicluna: Where The End Meets The Beginning

7–17 Jul 2021

MADA Gallery

Connecting the World through Sculpture

7 Jul – 18 Sep 2021

MUMA

Monash Art, Design and Architecture Workshop Tours

6–15 Jul 2021

Caulfield campus, Building G

A Biography of Daphne

26 Jun – 5 Sep 2021

ACCA

Entangled with Water: Participation and design of water and sanitation infrastructure in Indonesia

25 Jun 2021, 7–9pm

online

Eucalyptusdom

25 Jun 2021 – 1 May 2022

Powerhouse Museum

The Perfect Migrant

24 Jun – 18 Oct 2021

The Gallery, Sir Louis Matheson Library

What next for robots in public space?

9 Jun 2021, 4–6pm

Online

Yung Lung

3–5 Jun 2021

Festival Hall

Newsroom

29 May – 11 Jul 2021

Counihan Gallery

Club Purple: Stuart Ringholt

26 May – 6 Jun 2021

Queen Victoria Women's Centre

Naomi Eller: Making touch visible

19–22 May 2021

MADA Gallery

Design Talk: Marije Vogelzang

18 May 2021, 5–6pm

Online

Victorian Careers Show 2021

14–15 May 2021, 9am – 3pm

Exhibition Pavilion 1, Melbourne Showgrounds

Information Session: Architecture and Urban Planning and Design

13 May 2021, 6–6.45pm

Online

Kathy Temin: Mothering Garden

13 May – 12 Jun 2021

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

Information Session: Master of Design

12 May 2021, 6–6.45pm

Online

Information Session: Graduate Certificate in Public Art

11 May 2021, 6–6.45pm

Online

Inside Monash: Fine Art & Art History and Curating

6 May 2021, 6.30–7.30pm

Online

Art Bites: Rex Butler - Modernism and Miffy

6 May 2021, 12.30–1pm

Bunjil Place, Narre Warren

George Criddle: The True Nature of What We're Up Against

6–8 May 2021

MADA Gallery

Inside Monash: Design

5 May 2021, 6.30–7.30pm

Online

Inside Monash: Architecture

4 May 2021, 6.30–7.30pm

Online

Strategic Performance of Resistance

4 May 2021, 1–2pm

Online or Lecture Theatre G1.04

Meet a Humanoid Robot

1 May 2021, 10am – 4pm

Meat Market Hub, North Melbourne

VCE and Careers Expo 2021

29 Apr – 2 May 2021, 9am – 3pm

Caulfield Racecourse

Brian Martin: Jugun (Country)

29 Apr – 25 Jun 2021

William Mora Galleries

Through a Lens of Visitation

28 Apr 2021, 1–2pm

Online and Caulfield Big Screen

How does Public Art Happen? Inside the Public Art Studio with Australian artist Callum Morton

24 Apr 2021, 10–11.30am

Caulfield campus

Parlour 2021 Melbourne Autumn Salon

21 Apr 2021, 6–8pm

Brickworks Melbourne Design Studio

Planet City

21 Apr 2021, 1–2pm

Online and Caulfield Big Screen

Here, There, Nowhere

15 Apr – 2 May 2021

Blak Dot Gallery

Storytelling and curatorial practice

14 Apr 2021, 1–2pm

Online and Caulfield Big Screen

Indigenous Curation

12 Apr 2021, 9–10am

Online

Waterfront: Slipway Salon - Talks program

3 Apr 2021, 10am – 4pm

Slipway Sheds, Lakes Entrance

Gastronomy in the Age of Digital Reproduction

1 Apr 2021, 6–7.30pm

Online

reFrame: Making Space for Co-design in the Design of Learning Environments

1 Apr 2021, 5–6pm

online

reFrame: CoDesign materials for climate action

1 Apr 2021, 12–2pm

Melbourne Recital Centre

Waterfront: Rethinking Regional Recovery

1–3 Apr 2021

Iceworks Shed

Politics and Utopia in Architecture: Knowing the Anthropocene

31 Mar 2021, 7–8.30pm

Online

In Conversation with Vicki Couzens, Daniel von Sturmer & John Harvey

31 Mar 2021, 6–7pm

ACMI, Federation Square

reFrame: Weaving Indigenous Perspectives in Design

31 Mar 2021, 5–6pm

online

Curating with Nature

31 Mar 2021, 1–2pm

Online and Caulfield Big Screen

reFrame: Envisioning Healthcare

31 Mar 2021, 12–2pm

Melbourne Recital Centre and online

I-CONIC Australian Design

31 Mar – 14 Apr 2021

Robin Boyd Foundation

AA Prize for Unbuilt Work

31 Mar 2021

Dulux Gallery, University of Melbourne

City planning for living locally and 20-minute neighbourhoods post-COVID

30 Mar 2021, 5.30–6.30pm

Sunshine Social - BBQ

Archipitch for social housing of the future

30 Mar 2021, 2–4pm

Zenith Interiors, Melbourne

reFrame: Melbourne’s future mobility

30 Mar 2021, 12–2pm

Melbourne Recital Centre and online

reFrame: The Seven Grandfathers Teachings as an Indigenous design process

30 Mar 2021, 10am – 12pm

online

Politics and Utopia in Architecture: Indigenous Knowledge Systems

29 Mar 2021, 7–8.30pm

Online

reFrame: Book Club

29 Mar 2021, 5.30–6.30pm

Blondie Bar

reFrame: Love about Food

29 Mar 2021, 12–2pm

Melbourne Recital Centre and online

After the Australian Ugliness

28 Mar 2021, 6–7.30pm

290 Walsh Street

Spatial Practices: Modes of Action and Engagement with the City

28 Mar 2021, 3–4pm

Bookshop by Uro

Waterfront: Waterscapes of South Westernport

28 Mar 2021, 2–3pm

Tooradin & District Sports Club

A New Normal: New suburban street typology

26 Mar – 3 Apr 2021, 10am – 4pm

130 Lt Collins St

Topiary Mist

26 Mar – 4 Apr 2021, 10am – 6pm

Building E, Monash Art, Design and Architecture

A new suburban ambition – the past and future of the Australian suburb

26 Mar – 5 Apr 2021

MADA Gallery and Building G Concourse

Urban Screening Retrospective 2014-2020

26 Mar – 5 Apr 2021

Federation Square Big Screen, Harmony Square Screen and Monash University Big Screens

Not an expert

25 Mar 2021, 6–7pm

Online

Confronting New Futures: Healthy Building Materials in the Age of Climate Change

25 Mar 2021, 12–1pm

Online

To Think with the Forest

24 Mar 2021, 1–2pm

Online and Caulfield Big Screen

Architecture for Joy / Joy for Architecture

19 Mar 2021, 12.30–1.30pm

Online

Art, Mine Power and the Cultural Work of Climate Justice

17 Mar 2021, 1–2pm

Online and Caulfield Big Screen

disorganising: Julieta Aranda on Time/Bank

13 Mar 2021, 4.30–6pm

Collingwood Yards

Debbie Symons: Sing

13 Mar – 9 May 2021

Bayside Gallery, Brighton

This brittle light: Light Source commissions 2021-2021

12 Mar – 20 Jun 2021

Buxton Contemporary

The Tree School

11–23 Mar 2021

MADA Gallery

More than a guulany (tree): Indigenous knowledge systems

10 Mar 2021, 1–2pm

Online and Caulfield Big Screen

Photo Ideas: Control

4 Mar 2021, 6–7pm

Online

HyperSext City

4 Mar – 9 Apr 2021

Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney

Michael Bullock: Market Values

3–6 Mar 2021

MADA Gallery

MTalks: BLAKitecture: Indigenous first principles

1 Mar 2021, 6.15–8pm

Docklands

Bradley Webb: Invading Identity

27–28 Feb 2021

Wyong, NSW

Adelle Mills: Scrolling Intimacies: A Library Walk

25 Feb – 30 Apr 2021

Caulfield Library

MTalks: Photo Live: Brook Andrew and Kate Golding in conversation

22 Feb 2021, 5.30–6.15pm

Parkade

Australian Design Index Exhibition

11–12 Feb 2021, 10am – 4pm

Caulfield campus, Building G

Jordana Bragg: Love will tear us apart

10–12 Feb 2021, 10am – 5pm

MADA Gallery

Tree Story

6 Feb – 10 Apr 2021

Monash University Museum of Art

Lara Chamas: The entrance to Paradise lies at your mother’s hands

6 Feb – 28 Mar 2021

Gertrude Contemporary

MTalks: BLAKitecture: Co-Design? Collaboration? Consultation?

1 Feb 2021, 6.15–8pm

Docklands

MTalks: Adaptive Recovery

28 Jan 2021, 6.15–7.15pm

Parkade

MADA Now: Fine Art Graduate Exhibition 2020/2021

27–30 Jan 2021

Caulfield campus, Building D

MTalks: BLAKitecture: Design Obligations

18 Jan 2021, 6.15–8pm

Docklands

Graduate Study Information Series: Art, Design and Architecture

18–29 Jan 2021