MADE by the Opera House

Each student is provided with the equivalent of AU$6,000 to cover international airfares, accommodation and living expenses during their visit.

The annual program for the Australian students will take place in Copenhagen for six weeks in January-February. The program for the Danish students will take place in Sydney for six weeks in July-August.

2018 Australian and Danish students: already participated in the program this year.

2020 Australian Students: to be announced in due course. Please subscribe to our newsletter updates on the main MADE by the Opera House page to be notified.

Founding partners: 
Arup   
Steensen Varming
NSW Architects Registration Board
The Bikuben Foundation
The Dreyer Foundation
The Obel Family Foundation

Sponsor: 
AMP Capital

Contributors: 
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
Henning Larsen Architects - Host Firm for Danish Program 2014
Hassell - Host Firm for Australian Program 2014
COBE - Host Firm for Danish Program 2015
Arup - Host Firm for Australian Program 2015
3XN - Host Firm for Danish Program 2016
Grimshaw - Host Firm for Australian Program 2016
Spektrum Arkitekter and Steensen Varming – Host Firms for Danish Program 2017
BVN – Host Firm for Australian Program 2017
C.F. Møller  and Utzon Center – Host Firm for Danish Program 2018
Airbnb - For generously funding accommodation for the Australian and Danish MADE students in 2016 – 2018.

Many thanks also to:
Contributors in Australia

• His Excellency Børge Petersen, Ambassador of Denmark to Australia
• Prof. Adrian Carter MAA, Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University
• Broger's End, Kangaroo Valley 
• CPP Wind Engineering & Air Quality Experts
• Danish Trade Council in Australia
• Frost Urbanite
• Meld Studios 
• Michelle Tabet
• PTW Architects
• Richard Johnson, JPW Architects 
• University of New South Wales, Faculty of the Built Environment

Contributors in Denmark

• Damien Patrick Miller, Ambassador of Australia to Denmark
• DR Byen (Danish Broadcasting) 
• Erik Nørgaard, Fredensborg Houses
• Lindsay Johnston, Richard Leplastrier, Peter Stutchbury and Glenn Murcutt, Architecture Foundation Australia & Glenn Murcutt Masterclass
• Jan Utzon, Utzon Associates Architects
• Jørgen Ellegård Frederiksen, Bagsværd Church
• Jørgen Jørgensen, Kingo Houses 
• Lars Nørgaard, Musikkens Hus, Aalborg
• Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg
• Spektrum Arkitekter
• Utzon Center, Aalborg
• Utzon Foundation
• Aalborg University

Upon completion of the project, students will become part of the MADE by the Opera House Alumni group. By the Opera House’s 50th Anniversary in 2023, this one hundred-strong group will form a living legacy of MADE Alumni who will have a deep understanding of international design practice across disciplines and hemispheres.  

The MADE Alumni is a community and a professional network that collaborates, supports  and mentors each other to become the next generation’s best leaders. Beyond the professional context, the alumni group is naturally evolving on a social level – friendships for life are being formed across Australia and Denmark.  

The MADE Alumni are actively engaged beyond their own six-week MADE program,  ‘giving back’ and supporting MADE in many unique ways, such as:

· Promoting the MADE program through lunchtime talks at their universities, their professional networks and through social media;

· Assisting in the recruitment process of new MADE students;

· Actively participating in future MADE programs to welcome the new MADE students, participate in masterclasses, show the visiting students around their city, and  plan social trips, and

· Collaborating with the MADE program partners in extra-curricular events and projects that promote multidisciplinary collaboration.

The opportunities and possibilities that the MADE Alumni can create together are endless!