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SPECIAL EVENT INTERNATIONAL MPAVILION 2016 QUEEN VICTORIA GARDENS 05 OCTOBER 2016— 18 FEBRUARY 2017 FREE This year’s MPavilion is designed by influential Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai. The architect’s collaborative approach views nature and human as two parts of a whole, and his vision for MPavilion emphasises the opportunities that communal spaces provide us to discover the world and ourselves within it. Presented with Naomi Milgrom Foundation With a careful understanding of the elemental foundations upon which shared structures are built, Studio Mumbai will draw upon local resources and knowledge to transform space into place. MPavilion is a meeting place and ideas space that hosts a free program of talks, performances, debates and encounters each spring and summer. Full program announced in September. #melbfest IMAGE | Nicholas Watt www.festival.melbourne mpavilion.org Architect BIJOY JAIN of STUDIO MUMBAI MPavilion is a unique experiment in public space: each year the Naomi Milgrom Foundation commissions a world-leading architect to design a temporary garden pavilion for Melbourne. // 13