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The weekNov 04–11 2027 / Port Meridian

The
week

Eight days, forty-odd rooms, one flagship day in the middle. Pick a day to jump to it.

  1. Thu04
  2. Fri05
  3. Sat06
  4. Sun07
  5. Mon08
  6. Tue09
  7. Wed10
  8. Thu11

Day by day

Showing 24 sessions

Thu 04

Bedrock

  • Opening walk of the harbour grid

    Pier Nine

    Infrastructure

  • Procurement clinic for small cities

    Town Annex

    Civic

  • Welcome supper and lightning talks

    The Long Room

    Culture

Fri 05

Sediment

  • Patient capital breakfast

    Northing Hall

    Capital

  • Robots in the stockroom

    Parallax Floor

    Machines

  • Open studios, east side

    Tallow Street

    Culture

Sat 06

Flagship

  • Flagship day: doors and opening address

    Meridian Hall

    Civic

  • Main stage: the infrastructure afternoon

    Meridian Hall

    Infrastructure

  • Flagship closing performance

    Meridian Hall

    Culture

Sun 07

Quiet

  • Quiet hours: slow reading room

    Cairn Library

    Culture

  • Concrete, but kinder: materials lab

    Quarry Yard

    Climate

  • Founders' long walk

    Seawall Path

    Capital

Mon 08

Current

  • The grid is a conversation: live model

    Ostara Lab

    Climate

  • Small models, local rules workshop

    Kestrel Room

    Machines

  • On-call stories, told honestly

    Hollow Bar

    Infrastructure

Tue 09

Faultline

  • Civic funds: how to read a term sheet

    Town Annex

    Capital

  • Design for tired people: critique

    Cairnworks Studio

    Culture

  • Bus stop stories: the city speaks

    Depot Square

    Civic

Wed 10

Pressure

  • Reporting on the thing before it ships

    Brine & Post Hall

    Culture

  • Heat, load and the August problem

    Ostara Lab

    Climate

  • Machines at dusk: demos on the pier

    Pier Nine

    Machines

Thu 11

Summit

  • What we learned: the open debrief

    The Long Room

    Civic

  • Handover to next year's builders

    Seawall Path

    Infrastructure

  • Last light: closing session on the roof

    Meridian Roof

    Culture

Five districts

Walk the city the way the week does: pier to seawall.

  • Pier Nine

    Container cranes turned stages. Machines and infrastructure live here.

  • Tallow Street

    Open studios, bakeries and a lot of ladders. The culture district.

  • Town Annex

    Civic offices, finally with good chairs. Procurement and policy.

  • Quarry Yard

    Materials labs on a former stoneworks. Climate work happens outdoors.

  • Seawall Path

    Four kilometres of walking talks, with weather as a co-host.

Nov 04–11 2027 / Port Meridian

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tickets

Day passes from a made-up $180. Or browse the week first.