MENTOR FORUM
Meet our Mentors!
This years Mentor Forum, we have a strong lineup of urban designers, planners and architects who have generously opened up their schedules to host In-person and Online mentoring sessions, exclusively for our members.
We asked them two questions to learn more about who they are and what has shaped their passions.
Important Registration Dates
End of May: Mentors will be announced, along with dates and times for the first introductory session.
Early June: Registration Open (Mentor’s Humanitix booking links will become available on our website and released in an email campaign).
Carlos Reyes – Senior Urban Designer, MGS Architects, VIC
Mentoring Category: Emerging Practitioners (In person)
Carlos is a Senior Urban Designer at MGS Architects with international experience in strategic design and precinct planning. Before moving to Australia in 2021, he worked with the Bogotá city government and global consultancy Arup. In Melbourne, he has led projects across both public and private sectors, focusing on urban strategy, built form testing, and precinct-scale planning.
Robert Moore – Former Director, City of Melbourne VIC
Mentoring Category: Urban Curious (In person)
Robert Moore is an Architect and Urban Designer with over 40 years experience in both the public and private sector. He held a strategic urban design role at City of Melbourne from 1999-2023 including managing the Urban Design team and most recently, leading the Metro Rail team as Director State Infrastructure at CoM between 2016-2023.
Bianca Elencevski – Principal Urban Designer, DTP, VIC
Mentoring Category: Urban Curious (In person & Onine)
As Principal Urban Designer at Victoria’s Department of Transport and Planning, Bianca leads transformative planning and design across the state. With a people-first approach, she champions equity, health, and high-quality outcomes through collaborative leadership and bold urban reform.
Kevin Begg – Technical Director, GHD, VIC
Mentoring Category: Established Practitioners (In person)
With more than 30 years of experience in urban design and architecture across Australia, England, Asia, and the Middle East, Kevin has led multidisciplinary teams on complex, large-scale urban renewal and transit-oriented developments. For the last ten years he has supported the Victorian State Government with the Big Build, as a technical advisor and UDAP member for the Level Crossing Renewal Project and the North East Link Program.
Leila Farahani – Senior Strategic Planner, VPA, VIC
Mentoring Category: Emerging Practitioners (In person)
An urbanist, researcher and educator, Leila brings over a decade of experience shaping places through strategic planning, design, and research. As a Senior Strategic Planner at the Victorian Planning Authority, she explores how the built environment impacts our health and wellbeing. With a background in local government and academia, Leila’s work bridges policy, practice and pedagogy—driven by a passion for liveability, public space, and behavioural psychology.
Michael Frazzetto – Director, Six Degrees Architects, VIC
Mentoring Category: Emerging Practitioners (In person & Online)
Michael Frazzetto specialises in mixed-use, commercial, and cultural projects, bringing his expertise in Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, and Architecture to Six Degrees’ major civic projects. His passion for architecture and urban design is evident in his active contributions to the Melbourne Design Review Panel and his membership in the Australian Institute of Architects. An Honours graduate from the University of Melbourne, Michael also studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen under the internationally renowned Urbanist Prof. Jan Gehl.
Matthew Pullinger – Director, Matthew Pullinger Architect, NSW
Mentoring Category: Established Practitioners (Online)
An award-winning architect and urban designer, Matthew is a passionate advocate for design excellence in our cities. With experience across urban centres, transport systems, and mixed-use developments, he brings strategic insight and creativity to every scale. A founding member of the NSW State Design Review Panel and Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court, Matthew continues to shape better built environments through policy, design, and leadership.
Bronwen Hamilton – Design Manager & Principal Urban Designer, City of Melbourne, VIC
Mentoring Category: Established Practitioners (In person)
With over 20 years of experience, Bronwen is a passionate advocate for the power of public space. As Design Manager and Principal Urban Designer at the City of Melbourne, she leads city-shaping projects and the Melbourne Design Review Panel. Her work spans all levels of government, combining landscape architecture and urban design to deliver places that prioritise people, equity, and design excellence.
Luisa Schettino – Urban Designer, NH Architecture, VIC
Mentoring category: Urban Curious (In person)
Luisa is an architect and urban designer with international experience delivering large-scale, mixed-use masterplans — from Google’s Moffett Park in California to the city centre of Thimphu, Bhutan. Now based in Melbourne with NH Architecture, she’s working on town centre redevelopments across Australia, helping transform them into more diverse, sustainable places that work better for people and the planet.
Adelise Pearson – Principal Project Planner, Homes Victoria, VIC
Mentoring Category: Emerging Practitioners (In person)
Adelise Pearson is a Principal Project Planner at Homes Victoria with 11 years experience in urban design and strategic planning across state and local government in Victoria. She has a passion for applying her experience in spatial analysis, urban design and strategic planning to a range of complex urban contexts, including urban renewal areas, social housing, activity centres and municipality wide strategies. She has a Master of Urban Design and Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne and has worked across the City of Melbourne, City of Stonnington and Homes Victoria.
Margie McKay – Manager Urban Design & Place, City of Greater Geelong, VIC
Mentoring Category: Established Practitioners (Online)
Margie is an experienced leader, currently heading the Urban Design and Place Department at City of Greater Geelong and finds creative, innovative solutions and delivers complex design, planning and development programs. With over 20 years’ industry experience, Margie is passionate about urban design’s role in improving social outcomes in cities. Margie has a broad range of expertise in architecture, urban design, placemaking, strategic policy, housing policy and planning in both public and private sectors. She is an industry leader in Urban Design, including joint inaugural president of Urban Design Forum in 2021, and will focus sessions around leadership.
Justin Kelly – Senior Urban Designer City Design, City of Melbourne, VIC
Mentoring Category: Emerging Practitioners (Online)
Justin is a senior member of the City Design Studio and has a key role in preparing the Studio’s response to significant Planning Applications and a coordinating role in the Melbourne Design Review Panel, in support of the City’s Design Excellence Program. Justin has over 20 years of professional experience providing design advice, from development feasibility to design leadership on city shaping visioning documents and strategies. Justin has a strong commitment to maximising opportunities for the community and achieving the best outcomes for the place and the environment whether in review of private development or in advancing public realm propositions.
