Public Lecture “All of This Belongs To You”
11 August 2015
Theatre B117, Melbourne School of Design
As public buildings, what is the capacity of the museum as a public space? What can you do in them that you can’t do elsewhere? Can they be more than a nice place to wander, to have lunch with your parents? Can public institutions host debate, politics, radical thought? If all of this does belong to you, then what are you going to do with it?
ALL OF THIS BELONGS TO YOU is written in 1 meter-high neon letters, and the first thing you see upon entering the V&A this summer. The exhibition is about the design of public life, and the role institutions play in shaping public debate.
Dr Rory Hyde is Curator of Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Adjunct Senior Fellow, MSD, University of Melbourne
He was co-host of The Architects, a weekly radio show on architecture, which was presented in the Australian pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Rory has worked in the Netherlands with Volume magazine, Al Manakh (Archis / AMO), MVRDV, the NAi, Viktor & Rolf and Mediamatic, and previously in Melbourne with BKK Architects.
His first book Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture (Routledge, 2012) was awarded the AIA prize for architecture in the media.
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