Waterfront: Deep Dive – Sea Urchin Snorkel Tour

A snorkel tour in Port Phillip Bay with Pirjo Haikola revealing the exploding population of sea urchins living below the surface.

Waterfront: Forgotten Ecologies of Birrarung

Join a bicycle tour exploring the oft-forgotten ecologies of the Yarra River, stopping along the way to meet with experts for a conversation about the Yarra's future. BYO bike and helmet.

Waterfront: River Rights – Yarra Bend

A waterfront walk with Andrew Kelly, Yarra Riverkeeper, exploring waterfront access, development and the river as public space.

Waterfront: Ocean Osmosis – Desal Tour

Tour the reverse osmosis desalination plant in Wonthaggi to learn about the operation of this large-scale plant.

Join the team

Are you the next Open House Melbourne team member, or do you know someone who might be? We're on the hunt for a digital storyteller with a passion for architecture and community events.

Hope for a better future

We all understand the importance of home, of connection to place, connection to country – and to have this destroyed is devastating. However what drives society on is hope...

Thanks to our amazing community

With a total attendance of 113,485 in 2019, we continue to build a groundswell of interest in critical issues about our built environment.

A new home for Open House

Facing demolition and sparking a preservation row in 1970, this new office for Open House Melbourne is a fitting location to foster public engagement in the future of our city.

This is Public: Collective Agency

The third episode of This is Public responds to the 2019 National Architecture Conference theme: Collective Agency.

This is Public: Future Needs

As a partner of the Living Cities Forum (with Naomi Milgrom Foundation), Open House Melbourne’s second episode of This is Public focuses on the conference theme: Future Needs. 

This is Public: Waterfront

The first episode of This is Public documents Open House Melbourne’s Waterfront program.

Launching: This is Public

A new podcast series of interviews with the thinkers, doers and advocates who are shaping our city.