Architecture news & editorial desk Open House Melbourne (OHM) will play host to This Is Public, a speaker series co-presented with RMIT Architecture & Urban Design and The Capitol, RMIT University as part of its 2021 July Weekend program. This Public centres around the need to find new ways to reconnect and transform the ways in which we live and work together. The event will host speakers from a range of backgrounds and perspectives, who will endeavour to answer questions regarding the role of policy, climate change and future architecture in our cities, as well as other thought-provoking topics. Focusing on the central theme, Reconnect, the OHM July program asks us to reconsider the way we occupy our city and to envisage new ways of designing and adapting our buildings, infrastructure, landscapes and communities as we emerge from the ongoing impact of COVID-19.