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# Navigating the Landscape: Insights into Site and Context
- URL: https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/monash-university-2025-navigating-the-landscape-insights-into-site-and-context/
- Published: 2026-03-10T04:13:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-13T02:20:45.000Z
- Description: Lecture at Monash University / Bronwen Main
- Author: Bronwen Main
- Tags: #note, #lecture

In March 2025, Bronwen delivered a guest lecture to Monash University's Foundation Studio, sharing insights from MAIN&FRANK's BiRD building at Green School Bali, a collaboration with IBUKU exploring biomimicry and regenerative design. Drawing on materials like rice straw Durra Panel and bamboo, she spoke about designing for place through deep listening, literature, and cultural immersion, including the Balinese concept of Taksu. The talk covered working with landscape and microclimates, giving agency to non-human elements like rivers and wildlife in the design process, and the value of collaboration across disciplines. She closed by encouraging students to see collaborative challenges as opportunities for growth, both as designers and as people.