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About
A flagship initiative of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, MPavilion is Australia’s leading architecture commission: a place for debate around the design of today and tomorrow.
Since 2014, the Naomi Milgrom Foundation has invited extraordinary architects from Australia and across the world to design a meeting place for the Queen Victoria Gardens in Melbourne’s heart. From this MPavilion, a five-month design festival of free events is launched – prompting locals and visitors alike to consider how architecture, art and design can change lives.
When its season draws to a close, each MPavilion is gifted to the people of Victoria and relocated to a permanent home in the community where it can remain as a catalyst for conversation. Discover where you can visit relocated MPavilions across Victoria.
OUR
VALUES
- Design excellence for all. We are an entry point for curious audiences and believe exceptional design doesn’t need to be understood to be felt. We aim to create collective moments that deepen engagement and appreciation of design, architecture and art in our everyday lives.
- We create an independent platform for new ideas and experiences. We elevate new voices and commission new work that wouldn’t happen without us. We are a proving ground, but we program with intent.
- We value freedom of expression and respectful debate. We create culturally inviting and safe spaces for collaboration that embraces diversity in all its forms.
reconciliation
action plan
MPavilion – the flagship initiative of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation – exists and creates on the stolen land of the people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.
In November 2022, our Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) was formally endorsed.
As an organisation that champions art, design and architecture to improve Australian lives, our vision for reconciliation is a unified society where the diversity and richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and heritage are genuinely represented, recognised, respected and celebrated.
Our RAP intends to build on MPavilion’s journey to date, prioritise and support the voices of First Peoples in the development of our program, and contribute towards a more just, equitable, inclusive and reconciled Australia.
Contact
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