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HOME: Starting the Story

  • The Australia Pavilion Venice, Veneto, 30100 Italy (map)

Join the Creative Directors of HOME to consider the ways in which their diverse professional, cultural and personal understandings of home have enriched project

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SPEAKERS
Dr Michael Mossman
Dr Michael Mossman

Dr Michael Mossman is a Kuku Yalanji man who lectures and researches at the University of Sydney School of Architecture Design and Planning.

He is a registered architect who champions Country and First Nations cultures as agents for structural change in the broader architectural profession at educational, practice and policy levels. As co-lead creative director, Michael will lead logistics + dialogue around public engagement + culture + architecture 

Prof. Emily Mcdaniel
Prof. Emily Mcdaniel

Emily McDaniel is a Wiradjuri curator, creative practitioner and a Professor of Practice in the School of Architecture, UTS. She consults on curatorship, cultural narratives, learning and interpretation for cultural institutions, public domain, and the built environment.

Her practice applies Country-centred curatorial methodologies in collaboration with First Nations communities, cultural and creative practitioners, architects, and designers to story and truth-tell. She is recognised for her influential curatorial methodologies which place emphasis on expansive cultural practice, encompassing visual art, design, storytelling, language, performance, Indigenous knowledges, cultural governance, and nation building methodologies. 

Jack Gillmer-Lilley
Jack Gillmer-Lilley

Jack Gillmer-Lilley (Worimi & Biripi Guri) is an associate and First Nations lead at SJB, visiting and working on Gadigal Country. He advocates First Nations leadership and co-design, exploring the intersection of cultural knowledge systems and the built environment with an interest in multi-sensory experiences and unlocking ancient-living infrastructure through language.

As Creative Director for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025, and through his research as recipient of the Galang Residency collaboration between Powerhouse Museum x Cite Internationale des arts (Paris) in 2024, Jack looks forward to extending conversations about reframing museology and Indigenising institutional architecture and processes. 

MODERATOR
Emily McDaniel

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9 May

HOME: Continuing the Conversation