Time Space Existence is a biennial architecture exhibition in Venice, organised by the European Cultural Centre Italy (ECC Italy). The exhibition is held across three iconic venues in Venice's historic center: Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora, and the Marinaressa Gardens. ~ 370.000 visitors. Past editions have featured contributions from MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, ETH Zurich, TU Delft, SUTD Singapore, and many other leading institutions worldwide.

One-day Symposium, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. Organising team ~ Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand: Dr Polly Stupples (Senior Lecturer in Human Geography & Development Studies) School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences—Te Kura Tātai Aro Whenua. Dr Emina Kristina Petrović (Senior Lecturer in Sustainability in Design), Natasha Perkins (Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture) School of Architecture—Te Kura Waihanga KEYNOTE - Professor Alba Hernandez Bonilla, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; PLASTICHEAL ~ Taking micro-and nano-plastics research beyond the lab: from evidence to action. In recent years, microplastics have been found throughout the human body, in the bodies of other animals (including those we consume,) and in all ecosystems on earth. Their health and pollution impacts are well-documented and unevenly distributed, often impacting less privileged communities more, and yet plastic production continues to increase. In August 2025, negotiations for an ambitious Global Plastics Treaty to cap the production stalled, although discussions are ongoing. This symposium examines how building materials contribute to these omnipresent and growing risks. Buildings are now the second largest consumer of plastics (only after packaging). Use of plastics has entered into common building practice without a significant professional or public discussion, and unchallenged it continues to grow. Many plastics used in buildings are hidden inside walls, in materials which appear ‘natural’, or used as disposable elements that aid construction. Discussion on the environmental impacts of building focuses heavily on emissions, ignoring toxicity and the full lifecycle and full costs of plastics. It is therefore important to start a conversation about these hidden, but significant effects. Through this symposium, we hope to begin a conversation between researchers, planners, NGOs, and others interested in engaging with these concerns.

Pacific Futures: Australasian Cities in Transition, SOAC 2023 considered the future identity of Australasian cities in relation to indigenous communities, trans-Tasman networks, and the wider Asia-Pacific. VUW Co-hosted SOAC 2023 debut in Aotearoa - the first time in the conference's history. Conference co-chairs included Mirjam Schindler - Victoria University, Iain White - Waikato University, and Rebecca Kiddle - Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. The organising co-chairs were successful in early 2022 with the EOI to the Australasian Cities Research Network (ACRN) to host the 2023 State of Australasian Cities Conference. The awarding committee commended the excellent work in bringing together the different universities and the Indigenous caucus which was a first in the 30-year history of SOAC. The conference theme of Pacific Futures and mix of track theme chairs was also very timely. There were over 350 in attendance, including the pre-conference PhD symposium. The programme featured more than 250 presentations across 9 conference tracks, 6 keynote speakers, 4 plenary panels, the conference dinner, a public evening panel discussion and field trip and tours. Conference Tracks City Economies / City Governance / City Health and Liveability / City Housing / City Movement and Infrastructure / City Nature and Environment / City Cultures / City Design / Reckoning with Settler Colonial Cities My Contribution: Member of SOAC Indigenous Caucus Member of Indigenous field trip organising team Track co-lead (1/3) for City Cultures including organisation/prep including keynote, Conference Track/call copy, plus session lead, and selection of best paper. City Cultures Track: Gradon Diprose (MWLR), Nat Perkins - Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui (VUW), Ashraful Alam (UoO). Abstract: Cities and urban spaces are important places where people actively construct, create, reflect, and contest cultural meanings and practices. While for some, culture is understood as art galleries and museums, or reflecting certain communities traditions and heritage, here we are interested in exploring the broad ways culture is connected to, reflects, and fuels urban transformations. We invite papers that consider how cultural meanings and practices are constructed and expressed in the transitions and transformations already underway in Australasian cities, and those that are needed. This includes (but is not limited to): Contests over belonging and exclusion in Australasian cities; Material cultural shifts that point towards new and more regenerative urban practices (for example, in fashion, food, waste, and re-use initiatives); Representations of urban transformation and transition in art and design (including film, social art, public sculpture, street art, music, photography, and memorials/monuments); Shifting cultural expectations and practices in response to crisis and uncertainty (for example, Covid-19, extreme weather, flooding, heat waves, political polarisation); Indigenous cultural narratives as a driver for change linking past, present and future; Planning the creative city with urban subcultures, cultural commodification, studentification, punk subcultures, nightlife, festivals, sports, and tourism; Cultural planning and development with traditional culture, cultural heritage and assets, mega-event led urban development and regeneration; Immigrants and cultural diversity, cosmopolitanism, cultural ghettos, gateway cities and ethnoburbs, cultural integration, and planning for multiculturalism; Home culture, work from home, belonging, sense of place, gender and culture of sharing.

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Awaroa Master Class: Awaroa Inlet Architectural Design Research Project Workshop and Symposium with 6 ‘masters’ Gabriel Poole, Elizabeth Poole, Brit Andresen, Lindsay Clare, Richard Leplastrier, Peter Stutchbury, held in Abel Tasman National Park. (Attendee / co-producer of presentation).

Architectural Design Research Symposium Organisation/ Venice Architecture Biennale. An event associated with the New Zealand exhibition at the 2014 Venice Biennale. Roles include - Curator, Symposium Committee Member, International Review Committee, set up with Smitheram, J., Moloney, J., & Twose, S. (Eds.) In Architectural Design Research Symposium. Wellington: VUW. Retrieved from https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/wfadi/pdf/Venice_Architectural_Design_Symposium_Proceedings.pdf