Speaking
We are passionate about design and its profound potential to nurture life. We advocate for the expanded practice of architecture, inclusive processes and equitable outcomes that benefit people, place and environment. Jocelyn speaks from a place of deep interdisciplinary experience informed by intersections of ethnicity, gender, migration and race.
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Keynote presentations
Curating design events
Speaking engagements
Panel discussions
Keynote - 2025 Architeam Conference: Expanding Practice - Collaborative Practice
Speaker - 2024 MAVLab Innovation Talk: Connected Places with Nathalie de Vries (MVRDV) and Jocelyn Chiew
Curatorial, panel chair, speaker - 2024 The Excellent City Series x MPavilion - Festival of Design
Contributor, panellist - 2024 Melbourne Design Week: Perspectives - Sustainable Modalities
Keynote, panellist - 2024 New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) Firth Wānanga
Speaker - 2024 Melbourne's Central Axis Walking Tour, Australian Institute of Architects App
Interview - 2024 Do I Have The Right To Teach? What We Can Learn From The Public, Archemist Podcast
Curatorial, speaker, panellist - 2023 International Union of Architects (UIA) World Congress, Copenhagen with Urban Power
Speaker - 2023 Australian Institute of Architects international Womens Day event
Speaker, panellist - 2022 How Privately Owned Public Space (POPS) is Transforming the City, Melbourne Design Week
Panel Chair - 2019 Engaging with the Education Sector Event, Property Council of Australia (500 paid attendees)
Interview - 2018 Curating the University Campus, Doyenne Files
Keynote presentations
2025 University of Melbourne Graduation - Ceremonial Address
2025 Architeam conference, Melbourne
2024 New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Wananga, Wellington (with Jason Eades)
2023 Green Building Day conference, Melbourne (with Krista Milne)
2023 The Architecture Symposium: Acts of Generosity, Melbourne
Curated events
2024
MPavilion: Festival of Design with Jason Tamiru, Heidi Everett, Hoang Tran Nguyen, Sara Lloyd, Luke Cunningham, Kirsten Bauer, Jefa Greenaway, Emily McDaniel, Fatuma Ndenzako, Jennifer Tran and Aretha Brown
Melbourne Design Week: Exploring Circularity Through Material Reuse with Kaia McCarthy-Smith, Claire Ellis, Hilary Duff and Katie Cudal
Melbourne Design Week: Ecology in Urban Streetscapes with Danielle Jewson and Lee Harrison
Melbourne Design Week: Designing for Inclusion with Joshua ‘Shu’ Ezackial, Illiana Ginnis and Carlos Reyes
Melbourne Design Week: Perspectives featuring the Excellent City Series
2023
MPavilion: Build Your Own City with Mike Hewson
MPavilion: Embracing Country with Aunty Joy Wandin Murphy, Rau Hoskins and Aretha Brown
MPavilion: Enduring City with Grady Peterson, Robbie Neville, Mastura Mokhtar and Clare Parry
MPavilion: Design Futures with Bebe Backhouse and Xan Coppinger
Melbourne Design Week: Intersectional Gender Equity in Practice with Nikhila Madabhushi, Teneille Summers and Dr Derlie Mateo-Babiano
Melbourne Design Week: City of Play with Dr Sanne Mestrom, Dr Troy Innocent, David Lloyd
Melbourne Design Week: Design Review in a Design City, with Professor Martyn Hook, Sarah Lynn Rees, Sophie Patitsas and Quino Holland
Melbourne Design Week: UIA World Congress: Architects in Government, with Jill Garner -Office of the Victorian Government Architect and Camilla van Deurs - City of Copenhagen.
UIA World Congress: Reclaiming Space for Design Excellence, Melbourne & Copenhagen, presentation with Urban Power.
2022
MPavilion: Designing Equity with panellists Lara Brown, Michele Acuto, Simona Castricum and Gerhana Waty
MPavilion: Design Yarning with panellists Aunty Joy Wandin Murphy, Sarah Lynn Rees, Anne-Marie Pisani and Jason Eades
MPavilion: Designing Resilience with panellists Florian van den Corput, Professor Sarah Bell, Stephen Webb, Amelia Tonkins
MPavilion: Designing Excellence with panellists Karen Alcock, Karl Fender, Daniel Soussan, Bridget Smyth, Georgia Birks and Nicholas Reece
Speaking & Panels
2025
AIA Density Done Well & Heritage (MC)
RMIT Interior and Public Symposium (speaker)
Australian Architecture conference, Sydney (speaker)
Richmond Forum: On Public Space, Melbourne (speaker)
Gender Equity Victoria and UDIA - Put Her Name On It Forum: Equity in the landscape, Melbourne (speaker, panel chair)
2024
Green Buildings and Urban Development Tour with Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (invited participant)
Archemist Podcast: Do I Have The Right To Teach? What Can We Learn From The Public? (interview)
Robin Boyd Foundation: Design Matters: Adapt (panellist)
ArchiVisits App: Melbourne’s Central Axis walking tour – Melbourne Town Hall (speaker)
Melbourne Design Week: Perspectives - Sustainable Modalities (panellist)
Redesigning the Housing System: Radical Renewal (panellist)
Australian Institute of Architects International Womens Day event (speaker)
MSD Removing Barriers - Public Design (speaker)
2023
International Association of Architects Congress, Copenhagen (speaker, panellist)
Open House Melbourne: This is Public (speaker, panellist)
Hearing Architecture podcast – On Intersectionality (speaker)
Australian Institute of Architects International Womens Day event (speaker, panellist)
2020-22*
2022 Australian Urban Design Awards - What does design in the public interest look like? (panellist)
2022 Melbourne Design Week - Privately Owned Public Space (speaker, panellist)
2021 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects conference (speaker)
2020 Parlour Winter Salon (panellist)
2019
International Association of University Architects Conference, St Louis (speaker)
Property Council of Australia (PCA), Engaging with the Education Sector, Melbourne (panel moderator, 500 attendees)
AILA Gender Equity Launch, Melbourne (speaker)
TEFMA Grounds Workshop, Geelong (speaker)
Property Council of Australia - Victoria, Future Directions - Networking Panel (panellist)
AIA Constructive Mentoring event, Melbourne (speaker)
WomenIn Education – The Campus is Dead, Melbourne (panellist)
2015-18
2018 Tertiary Education Management Conference, Perth (speaker)
2018 University Masterplans Summit, Sydney (speaker)
2017 Tertiary Education Management Conference, Perth (speaker)
2017 Research Facilities Conference, Sydney (speaker)
2015 National Infrastructure Summit, Melbourne (speaker)
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