RMIT Gallery brings together artists, architects, writers and thinkers to reflect on what qualities of environment and circumstance afford us shelter in a physical and metaphorical sense

Is shelter a sense of safe haven, a place to protect ourselves from the natural elements, from the unrelenting pressures of modern life or, perhaps, a place or space to reflect on our innermost thoughts?

Shelter: On Kindness is about tea houses, contemporary architecture, cattlemen’s huts and aboriginal shades. It examines ideas of nurture and kindness through the filter of the writings of psychoanalyst and author Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor in On Kindness (Penguin, 2009).

SHELTER: ON KINDNESS PROGRAMS:

Terunobu Fujimori Artist Floor Talk
Thursday 1 October 1-2pm
Free event

Renowned Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori will talk about chashitsu – architectural spaces designed for tea ceremonies. Translator: architect Marika Neustupny.

Terunobu Fujimori Public Lecture
Tuesday 6 October 7-8.30pm
Gold coin donation
Terunobu Fujimori will discuss his architectural activities. Translator: architect Jun Sakaguchi.

Traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony
Saturday 24 October 1pm and 2pm
Free event
Under the Fujimori & Sakaguchi teahouse at RMIT Gallery.

William Eicholtz Artist Floor Talk
Sunday 25 October 1-2pm
Free event
Sculptor William Eicholtz reflects on the influence of European Baroque architecture.