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Architects Without Frontiers Network Partner BKK Architects hosted AWF Partners, friends and supporters in their beautiful offices overlooking Flinders Street, Birrarung Marr and the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, to celebrate AWF projects, explore community co-design in infrastructure projects and investigate pathways to humanitarian action for architects and designers.

BKK Founding Director Tim Black showcased BKK’s work embedding First Nations Culture on Victoria’s largest infrastructure project, North East Link.

AWF Founding Director Esther Charlesworth presented current and upcoming AWF projects, ranging from a 200-pupil school in the Solomon Islands to a special-needs garden in India and 2 women’s crisis shelters in Victoria.

Brett Moore, Minderoo Foundation Principal, Delivery and Development, outlined the scale of forcibly displaced populations around the world, described the mechanisms and processes used to respond to this crisis, and explored pathways for architects and designers to respond to urgent humanitarian needs.

Geoff Marsdon, Executive General Manager of AWF Foundation Partner Bondor spoke of the powerful ways pro bono humanitarian work builds communities within and between partner organisations.