NAS Art Forum | Home: Country as Creative Process

Join Dr Michael Mossman, in his role as co-Creative Director for Home at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Australia Pavilion, in an in-depth conversation with artist Kien Situ where they will speak to the student exercise – Home: Country as Creative Process. Together they will explore heritage, creative practice, art and architecture through the interactions between cultures, Country, collaboration, and the transformative power of place-based storytelling.

Dr Michael Mossman is a lecturer and researcher from the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. His work explores Indigenous knowledge systems in the built environment, cultural heritage, and Country through design, teaching, and collaborative creative practice. He is the current co-Creative Director for Home at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Australia Pavilion.

Kien Situ is an architectonic artist whose practice spans sculpture and space. Informed by his diasporic heritage at the juncture of contemporary global cultural theory with ancient sinospheric philosophies, he explores matter, ruin, distance, numerology, and time in relation to cultural dislocation. Kien’s work Shanshui [Prophecy] is currently on exhibition as part of Home at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Art Forum

The NAS Art Forum is a weekly public lecture intended to enrich the school community with contributions by guest speakers on a broad range of subjects considered to be of interest to NAS staff, students and the public.

Previous speakers have included notable art industry professionals on subjects covering visual arts, cultural theory and humanities.

NAS Forum lectures are held Wednesday lunchtime from 12.45 – 1.30pm during teaching weeks.