Architects with PRIDE brings together the LGBTQI+ communities of Australia’s built environment industry to celebrate the 2023 WorldPride and Mardi Gras Festival. 

An initiative launched by SJB, bringing together 12 other studios and the Australian Institute of Architects, Architects with PRIDE have curated a program of four events over WorldPride that everyone can get involved with. 

This collective initiative, supported by some of the most prominent studios such as Carter Williamson, Bates Smart, COX and Hassell among others, is about enabling the A&D community to march hand in hand with the LGBTQI+ communities at the occasion of colourful and unforgettable events.

The Architects Ball, 16 February from 7:30pm to 12am at Pleasures Playhouse, Sydney

The Architects Ball is the promise of “a night of ecstasy and celebration with a line-up of some of Sydney’s best queer DJs and performers.”

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Queer Career, 21 February from 12:30pm to 2:30pm at Pleasures Playhouse, Sydney

Queer Career is about asking the right questions to the right crowd, namely IDEA 2022 Emerging Designer winner Brahman Perera, as well as urban designer Lucian Hicks, journalist Stephen Todd and Equality Australia CEO Anna Brown.

Queer Career brings together a diverse panel of professionals within the built environment to discuss diversity in their respective professions and the strategies to challenge space-making for greater inclusivity.

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Love Letters to Queer Space, 22 February from 6pm to 9pm at Pleasures Playhouse, Sydney

A fast past Pecha Kucha style presentation from 16 of Australia’s most diverse design practitioners. 

From gay beats to churches, the architecture of desire has taken on many forms throughout modern life. At the hands of our emerging practitioners, what does queer space look like today? 

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Queer Space, 23 February from 12:30pm to 2:30pm at Tusculum Sydney 

Queer Space brings together the newly appointed CEO of the Australian Institute of Architects, Cameron Bruhn and RMIT professor and architecture critic, Naomi Stead to discuss the intersectionality of queer space in architecture.

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Last year, NGV also explored untold stories of queer art in new exhibition.