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The Excellent City Series: Build your own city

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City Design, City of Melbourne.

“What if everything we did in our public spaces had to be fantastic for the eight- and the eighty-year-olds? We’d probably end up with great communities for all.” Gil Peñalosa

Join us for a morning of play… and rebuild the city!

This event will be an interactive experience that invites members of the community to come together and build the city of their dreams. MPavilion will be transformed into a welcoming and imaginative construction for participants of all ages to construct a cardboard city. The event will encourage creativity, collaboration and critical thinking in addressing issues of urban life and the built environment.

This event will play with Peñalosa’s theory that cities designed for eight-year-olds and eighty-year-olds will be great places for everyone. It will explore what our future cities might look like if we consider the diverse needs of all the people that make up our community.

The Excellent City Series
City of Melbourne’s Excellent City Series is back in 2022/23. The series explores four key themes that are shaping Design Excellence conversations in Melbourne.

The City of Melbourne’s Design Excellence Program reinforces the city’s commitment to enhance the function, liveability, sustainability and public contribution of our buildings and urban spaces.

City of Melbourne will be taking photographs at this event. Photographs taken at this event may be used in future City of Melbourne promotional materials, such as flyers, posters, brochures, website content and across social media channels relating to services and programs provided by City of Melbourne. If you do not wish to be photographed, please inform a City of Melbourne staff member.
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Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the people of the Eastern Kulin Nations as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.