The experts who will sit on the City of Melbourne’s two new design advisory bodies have been revealed.
Councillors endorsed the more than 40 experts and community members of the Design Excellence Advisory Committee and Melbourne Design Review Panel at the Future Melbourne Committee on 5 October.
Providing formal design advice on development applications and on council-led projects, the Melbourne Design Review Panel will include a pool of ten expert members from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. They include Louise Wright of Baracco and Wright; Vanessa Bird of Bird de la Coeur Architects; Amanda Roberts of Lat 37 (Lat Studios); Shane Murray, dean of Monash Art Design and Architecture; Simon McPherson of Global South; Mark Jacques of Openwork; Jane Williams (Jane Williams Architects); Simone Bliss, SBLA Studio; Rory Hyde, University of Melbourne; and Monash University’s Shelley Penn. José Alfano Of Alfano Studio will also be invited to give advice for select meetings.
The Design Review Panel also includes a pool of 16 technical experts from fields such as heritage, education and sustainability. They are: Mary Ann Jackson (accessibility); Ricky Ricardo (communications); Tania Davidge (community engagement) Michael Frazzetto (contextual design); Lucinda Hartley (data analytics); Sarah Slattery (development feasibilities); Anna Peters (development feasibilities); Jim Gard’ner (heritage); Kate Gray (heritage); Anne-Marie Pisani (Indigenous engagement); Daniel Soussan (Planning) Johanna Trickett (sustainability); Gavin Ashley (sustainability); Will Fooks (transport planning); Kathy Lazanas (transport planning); Soren Luckins (wayfinding / user experience).
The Design Excellence Advisory Committee, which will have a more informal role in shaping the city’s design, includes five community members, eight technical experts and three “technical advisors,” who will be invited to select meetings.
The technical experts include Victorian government architect Jill Garner; Julie Willis, University of Melbourne; Bill Krotiris or an Australian Institute of Architects nominee; Matthew York or an Australian Institute of Landscape Architects nominee; Danni Hunter, Property Council of Australia; Romilly Madew, Infrastructure Australia; Julie Willis, University of Melbourne; Martyn Hook, RMIT University; and Georgia Birks, Architecture Media (publisher of ArchitectureAU).
The technical advisors are Karl Fender, founder of Fender and Katsalidis, Monique Woodward of Wowowa, and Sarah Lynn Rees, associate and lead Indigenous advisor at Jackson Clements Burrows and a lecturer at Monash.
The community members are Ben Milbourne, Robyn Pollock, Lara Brown, Daniel Ong and Nivedita Ravindran.
