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MDW Talk: Mauro Baracco, Buildings + Living Things
Sun May 25, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm AEST
$20 – $30Event Navigation
Along the Po River, between the towns of Piacenza and Cremona, Italy, the Caorso ex-nuclear power plant and its surrounding territory of natural and urban environments offers fertile ground for design ideas.
Buildings and Living Things: Sharing Ground is a 13-minute video work produced by Mauro Baracco (Baracco+Wright Architects) in collaboration with Margherita Marri (Captcha Architecture) and Valentina Noce (Sabotage Practice), with students of the Polimi-Milan Polytechnic; School of Architecture, Urban Planning, Construction, Engineering; Master of Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design, in the context of: Crossing Contested Lands, 5th international design workshop (September 2024) of the LOL- Landscape Of[f] Limits program. The video focuses on the transformation and redefinition of built and unbuilt areas. A series of interventions revolve around and extend from the reuse of the dismissed plant, speculating on new ways of inhabiting the planet, an alternative to current models driven by production/consumption cycles that go hand in hand with extractive/destructive practises, generating waste and depletion of natural resources.
Mauro Baracco, architect, PhD, is a co-director of Baracco+Wright Architects (B+W, est. 2004) and their related research laboratory B+W+. He teaches and researches: formerly an Associate Professor at RMIT (1996-2020), he is currently University Fellow to RMIT, Teaching Associate at MADA. Mauro is also a member of the Boyd Circle Founding Group at the Robin Boyd Foundation. His interest in the local has developed from historical and cultural to include ecological relationships of the built and unbuilt environment. He is interested in a role for architecture that can extend its relationship with the natural world towards one that considers all life. Together with Louise Wright, the other director of Baracco+Wright Architects, they build, unbuild, rearrange and support buildings and living things. Recently they have been researching the role of reuse and removal of built form in the reimagining of the city.
Join us at Walsh Street to view Buildings and Living Things: Sharing Ground and attend an accompanying talk delivered by Mauro Baracco.
This event is part of Melbourne Design Week 2025, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV.
This event is generously supported by Brickworks Building Products, Konpira Maru Wines and Yumbo Soda Co.
Please note:
– Buildings and Living Things: Sharing Ground will be limited to the Walsh Street master bathroom, registration for this event does not permit full house access. If you would like to tour the house please book one of our guided tours.
– Attendees must be 16 years and over.
– No external food or drink permitted.
– Large bags and backpacks will need to be checked in at entry.
– Stiletto or pointed heels are not permitted due to our cork flooring.
– Registration is essential.
Video still, Buildings and Living Things: Sharing Ground, 2024. Courtesy of Baracco+Wright Architects.