Installation timelapse of the Pholiota Unlocked exhibition. The Melbourne School of Design invites you to step across the threshold of a full-scale replica of the home that was one of the closest to the Griffins' hearts: their own. Pholiota was the name Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony gave to their tiny Melbourne house in Eaglemont in the 1920s, built with the innovative Knitlock system of interlocking bricks they invented and patented as the future for Australian suburbia. For the first time Pholiota has been 'unlocked' with a 1:1 reconstruction by Master of Architecture students led by Phil Goad, Chair of Architecture and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, installed within the Melbourne School of Design’s state-of the-art interior. Experience the Griffins’ prescient vision for urban living, complemented by 13 new designs for a contemporary Pholiota. A New Pholiota, an interactive virtual reality experience developed by the Microsoft Research Centre for SocialNUI at the University of Melbourne, will allow visitors to experience a vision for a twenty-first century Pholiota from the interior of the physical model of the original. This exhibition is part of Cultural Collisions at Melbourne Festival. Friday, 7 Oct 2016 - 9:00am to Sunday, 23 Oct 2016 - 5:00pm Dulux Gallery, Ground Floor, Melbourne School of Design

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