Arts
As a partner of the Living Cities Forum (with Naomi Milgrom Foundation (http://www.naomimilgromfoundation.org/) ), Open House Melbourne’s second episode of This is Public focuses on the conference theme: Future Needs. Hosts Emma Telfer and Sally McPhee spoke with Forum speaker Christopher Hawthorne (https://livingcitiesforum.org/christopher-hawthorne) , Chief Design Officer for the City of Los Angeles, and Rob Adams (https://creative.vic.gov.au/design/BoDW-program/rob-adams) , Director of City Design at the City of Melbourne about how design responds to future needs in our cities, specifically LA and Melbourne. In this fascinating long-form conversation with two city design leaders, we traverse densification to de-growth, innovation to adaptive re-use, transforming ideas into decisive action, and playing the long game in city transformation. Photo credit: Living Cities Forum by Tom Ross