6’00” - Mark Jacques

The linear space that runs north-south between Franklin Street, the Franklin Street Stores and the Queen Victoria Market is stubbornly persistent. It was originally the central path of the Old Melbourne Cemetery, then the service street of the southern stores then the central aisle of the Market car park. Soon it will be the central promenade of a new park. During all this time it has been witness to the quotidian movement of the city. These are 6 minutes of those movements. Mark Jacques is an Urban Designer and Landscape Architect. In 2016 when he founded Openwork as an office undertaking projects in public space, landscape architecture, urban design, research and speculation. In 2015, Mark was appointed Professor of Architecture (Urbanism) Industry Fellow within RMIT’s School of Architecture and Urban Design. In 2022, he completed his PhD at RMIT’s School of Architecture and Urban Design entitled ‘Interloping and its consequences: Poaching, opportunism and making mischief in the design of public spaces’. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This video is included in the exhibition 'Exterior Monologue', curated by Olivia O'Donnell and Virginia Overell as part of the 2024 MSD x Melbourne Design Week program. See videos from all contributors on the Exterior Monologue playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgGN9A-SZN9mxcQzaFljG-bxaSRPv5jTa https://designweek.melbourne/ Melbourne Design Week and The Victorian Design Program are initiatives of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. #MelbourneDesignWeek #NGV @NGVMelbourne