Welcome to Parlour LIVE!, our abundant and ever-growing collection of video and audio recordings from Parlour’s lively event program.
Scroll down and click through to explore the collection, catch up on sessions you missed or revisit those that struck a chord. The sections below show the latest episodes in each series, click through on each to see the full suite. (Most have CPD questions available.)
A word about cpd. The cpd questions for all sessions are open and reflective. We ask you to consider what you have seen and heard, and think about what you might take into your own professional life and practice. There are no boxes to tick, but there is a lot to learn!
Deadly Djurumin Yarns
Frank yarns grounded in the experiences of First Nations women in the built environment professions. Learn how to work respectfully with Country, community, culture and Indigenous knowledges, how to be excellent accomplices and much more.
Indigenising spatial justice
Gununa futures
Watch this great yarn about research on housing, energy and town design in Gununa, Mornington Island – and how it is catalysing change.
Don’t make promises you can’t keep
Watch this excellent yarn about meaningful and effective engagement. What is involved and what do practitioners need to be careful about?
Indigenising biodiversity
Wellbeing of Architects symposium videos
Recordings from The Wellbeing of Architects [education + practice —] symposium – two days of research presentations and discussion to help create healthier, more sustainable futures for the architecture community.
Stepping Up
Practical action on equity in the workplace. These discussion events are part of the Stepping Up event and editorial program.
Stepping Up on Positive Duty of Care
Cultivating workplaces in which people thrive – a timely conversation with Merilyn Speiser, Sonia Sarangi and Alex Small.
Stepping Up on Flexibility & Studio Culture
Join us for an important conversation about maintaining and cultivating studio culture in the era of flexible work.
Stepping Up on Multicultural Leadership
Watch this enlivening conversation that does not shy away from the very real challenges experienced by too many people.
Stepping Up on Navigating Downturns
Watch this important discussion about navigating economic cycles in ways that are fair and equitable.
Parlour LAB
Bringing scholarly research discussions to the professional community.
Agency, resistance, disruption
Watch this compelling discussion about the agency and action, disruption and creative research practice
Building social inclusion
Watch this lively conversation about research supporting socially focused design and planning with Angelique Edmonds and Jacki Paul.
Making Pacific Spaces
Watch this excellent discussion of Pacific conceptions of space and processes and practices that support culturally responsive architecture – with CPD.
Regional transformations
The Last Mile
Parlour POD
Our podcast presents convivial conversations from much-loved Seasonal Salons, recorded live across Australia.
Reading Room Conversations
Lively discussions about feminism and the built environment from the Parlour Reading Room.
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Navigating the world of work, the futures of the profession and paths forward.
Transformations
Sessions from the 2019 symposium, Transformations: Action on Equity.
Presentations from researchers, practitioners and activists who are changing the way we think about gender in the built environment and creating new futures.
Occasional sessions
Recordings from one off Parlour events.
See the full suite
Browse the entire set of event series and recordings.
Deadly Djurumin Yarns
Indigenising the built environment – frank and fearless yarns from the perspectives of First Nations women.
Parlour POD
Informal conversations about life in and around the built environment professions. Listen to our podcast here, or on your favourite platform.
Parlour LAB
Bringing research discussions in architecture and the built environment to the wider professional community.
Light at the End of the Tunnel
39 episodes to help navigate the world of work, the futures of the profession and paths forward.
Parlour Reading Room
Spirited discussions on feminism & the built environment – accompanied by reading lists and facilitation guides
Occasional sessions
Recordings from one off Parlour events.
Transformations
Sessions from the 2019 symposium, Transformations: Action on Equity
