Welcome to the Parlour Collective
The Parlour Collective is our new supporter program. It creates funding security for our long-term future, while providing further opportunity for action, research, mutual support and camaraderie.
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Latest entries
Architecture beyond buildings
Jim Gall discusses traditional architectural perspectives of sustainability, and the need for architects to re-think design to ensure a more sustainable future.
Parlour Guides: review & update
Parlour is reviewing, revising and updating the much-loved Parlour Guides to Equitable Practice and would like your help.
On mentoring
Join Parlour, the ACA and the Champions of Change for a discussion on 11 July with Ben Green of Em Be Ce, Erin Collins of Hayball and Gemma McDonald of DKO.
Designing with and for young people
Book now for Parlour LAB 14 – Places of opportunity: designing with and for young people with Penelope Carroll, Karen Witten and Kate Bishop. See you online, 21 July.
Stripping the colonial veneer
Join Kaylie Salvatori, Theresa Bower and Georgia Birks for the next Deadly Djurumin Yarn, Stripping the Colonial Veneer: Revealing Blak Places on Friday, 1 July.
Launceston Winter Salon
Please join Parlour and The Findlay Project for the 2022 Launceston Winter Salon, with Tara Broun and Georgia Lindsay at Brickworks, Wednesday 6 July. See you there.
Hobart Winter Salon
Please join Parlour and The Findlay Project for the Hobart Winter Salon with Ceridwen Owen and Jennifer Nichols at Brickworks, Wednesday 29 June.
On Parental Leave
Watch Stepping Up on Parental Leave with Philip Vivian of Bates Smart, Zoë King of Cox and Richard Sucksmith of John Wardle Architects.
What is designing with Country?
Watch What is Designing with Country?, a yarn between Daniele Hromek and Sarah Lynn Rees – with CPD.
Adelaide Winter Salon
Join us for the Adelaide Winter Salon, an interdisciplinary session with DeArne Matthews and Ivana Glavinic May, Thursday 30 June.
What is parental leave and why does it matter?
Parental leave is much more than a short-term leave entitlement. Good parental leave policies help create equitable workplaces that enable everyone to lead a balanced life,
Calling for Instagram guest hosts!
Do you want to host Parlour's Instagram account for a week? We are signing up people now for 2022.
How to create a good parental leave policy
A good Parental Leave Policy is essential to creating workplace culture and policy environment that supports parents at all stages.
Vale Wendy Lovelace
In her decades of advocacy in creating an inclusive and accessible world, Wendy Lovelace never lost sight of architecture’s potential for poetry, writes Katherine Gifford.
5. “Still possible worlds”
Watch Nat Osborne and Sumita Singha discuss climate change through an intersectional lens and imagine the "still possible worlds" that might be created.
