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Thu 12 Mar, 6 & 8pm | University Square, | Free |
What can the night teach us about life on campus?
Explore the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus after hours through a series of interactive night walks guided by researchers from the Melbourne Centre for Cities. Developed through The Night Shift research project, the walks invite you to experience the campus as a working night-time environment shaped by safety, mobility, lighting, access and care.
Starting at MPavilion Parkville, each walk explores a different challenge of designing city spaces for life after dark. See familiar spaces in new ways through themes ranging from nightlife and harm reduction to cultural life, labour, climate and biodiversity.
The walks are guided by an interdisciplinary team of University of Melbourne researchers spanning criminology, urban studies, social planning, architecture and visual culture. Along the way, they’ll highlight the people and systems that keep the city running at night, including the often-unseen workers who sustain the night-time economy. The walk will also include some prompts and exercises for you to write, share or draw your thoughts. The experience returns to the pavilion for warm drinks, conversation and a shared mapping activity to reflect on what it means to inhabit the campus after hours.
Walks
Take a 2 hour tour at 6pm on Wednesday 15 April or Wednesday 29 April.
While every effort will be made to accommodate mobility levels, the tour will involve approximately 3km of walking, including across uneven surfaces.
Please note the walks will touch on topics of sexual violence, harms and may be distressing for some participants.
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About
MPavilion Parkville is the University of Melbourne’s open-air space for art, ideas and experimentation. The program offers a series of curated experiences that invite you to experience familiar spaces in new ways.
All events are free and open to everyone.
Presenters
Event presented by Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne:
- Jesse Mentha – PhD Candidate at the Melbourne Centre for Cities and the Melbourne School of Design; urban Planning, urban illumination, life after dark
- Professor Alison Young – Francine V. McNiff Professor of Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts; safety and urban life
- Dr Anna Edwards – Research Fellow in Urban Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning; night-time economies
- Dr Bianca Fileborn– Associate Professor, Criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts; space, identity and experiences of harm
- Dr Melissa Pineda Pinto – McKenzie Fellow, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning; urban ecologies and multispecies justice
- Dr Ashraful Alam – Senior Lecturer in Social Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning; social Planning; migration and housing
- Dr Sabina Andron – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cities and Urbanism, Faculty of Arts; visual culture of cities, signage and urban surfaces