Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

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A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

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Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

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Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

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Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Parramatta

2023

The red rooftop of Phive, featuring small undulations, that create a wavey pattern across the building.

Program Sydney Design Week 2023 Communal Cities

Architecture Amplified: Building Communities

Name: Architecture Amplified: Building Communities
Start: 2023-09-16T01:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-09-16T07:00:00.000Z
Location: PHIVE

Ended 16 Sept 2023

PHIVE

Who has permission – perceived or real – to gather, to dwell, to occupy, to be visible in buildings, streets, neighbourhoods, the city?

Curator Kate Goodwin with architect Qianyi Lim take inspiration from PHIVE, Parramatta’s civic and cultural hub designed by Manuelle Gautrand in partnership with Lacoste + Stevenson and DesignInc, to explore the relationship of architecture, community and equitable environments through a program of walks, talks and site-specific performances.

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.

Program

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).

Details

Venue

On Baramadagal land

PHIVE
5 Parramatta Square
Parramatta NSW 2150

Entry

Tickets sold separately

Saturday
16 September 2023
12–5.15pm

Book

Supported by

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.