Five stylized figures with plants and flowers instead of heads, walking against a background featuring a yellow building with large dome shapes under a blue sky.

22 Jul

Melbourne Conversations: Designing with Country

Name: Melbourne Conversations: Designing with Country
Start: 2026-07-22
End: 2026-07-22
Location: Fed Square

How can design reveal and strengthen our connections to Country? Bringing together leading voices in First Nations knowledge, architecture and urban design, this conversation explores how pathways, trails and infrastructure can act as living cultural lines.

In conversation: Senior Wurundjeri Elder Aunty Joy Murphy; Dr Danièle Hromek, Director and Design Lead, Djinjama; and Stas Mantzis, Design Leader, Greenshoot Consulting. Hosted by Dr Kat Nelligan.

Together they will reflect on approaches to ‘designing with Country’ and consider how lines – whether songlines, walking trails or transport corridors – carry knowledge, memory and responsibility, and how design can meaningfully support deeper, ongoing connections with Country.

Light refreshments provided.

Join Senior Wurundjeri Elder Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin AO for a Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony before this event at the Smoking Dish in City Square at 4.30pm.

Presented with event partners Open House Melbourne and Fed Square.