Slow Progress in the Third Space

Greetings from the Third Space Symposium at University of Melbourne. Along with workshops elsewhere on campus, this precedes the ASCILITE 2024 Conference, which starts tomorrow. The symposium was preceded by weeks of Third Space Slowposium. I am still trying to work out what the slowposium is and where it is. But at least I have found the symposium. 

The workshops and symposium are being held in the Arts West building at UoM. The building has the look of an Escher sketch brought to life. Building elements are apparently thrown together at odd angles (as if several buildings were fused). One room is carpeted in a bold tartan, which would be okay but the walls are covered with wallpaper using the same pattern.  There is a very functional circular lecture theatre, but the outside wall consists of wooden studs and noggins with polyester acoustic panels between, giving the look of an unfinished building site. This might all be taken as a metaphor for this space, where we are making it up as we going along, with whatever materials are at hand.