Architecture Amplified: Building Communities

Architects and local creatives will lead tours of PHIVE and the surrounding area, providing insights into its current use and future possibilities. The day includes a site-specific performance in PHIVE and two complementary panels involving architects, planners, policy makers, community activists and creative practitioners exploring how the built environment shapes, and is shaped by, communities.

11am–12.30pm Ripple Effects – Parramatta Walking Tour

1–2pm PHIVE Building One Year On

2–2.20pm PHIVE Alive. Multidisciplinary artist Cynthia Florek creates a site-specific performance within PHIVE as a direct response to the building

2.30–3.30pm Building Community, Community Building. With PHIVE as inspiration, speakers explore how the built environment can give cohesion and belonging to different communities

3.45–4.45pm Equitable Environments: Policy, Practice, Play. The panel will discuss how creative thinking can be applied to the conception and generation of equitable and sustainable environments.

Architecture Amplified is a forum for an inclusive, inspiring and critical examination of architecture and society today. It uses inventive curatorial formats that amplify the architectural context in which events are hosted. It celebrates architects as designers, thought-leaders, advocates, activists, writers, researchers and creative producers, broadening how, where and when architectural knowledge is applied. Conceived by Kate Goodwin, Olivia Hyde and Qianyi Lim, during their tenure as professors of practice (architecture) at the University of Sydney (2022–2023).

PHIVE is the City of Parramatta's new community, cultural and civic hub, located in the heart of Parramatta's CBD at 5 Parramatta Square. The six-level building is home to the Parramatta Library, exhibition, events and community spaces to gather, learn, work, play and collaborate.