The Living Places Plan is the foundation for RMIT’s Property Plan and Capital Development programs, while also helping to support and prioritise precinct activation initiatives, programming and partnerships that bring new life and enhance learning and research opportunities for RMIT.
The Living Places Plan comprises three parts: a Vision for RMIT’s future places; a planning and decision-making Framework that will translate the Vision into tangible place-making outcomes; and Design principles and priorities that demonstrate how the Vision and Framework are applied to create inclusive, regenerative and purposeful places in the City, Brunswick, and Bundoora. It is a living document that will remain agile, responsive and adaptable to meet the needs of our community and future strategic ambitions.
Celebrate First Peoples' culture in the University's evolving place-based identities, embedding Indigenous knowledges in how we care for Country and shape our places through bold design and the embrace of local and global communities.
Create inclusive, welcoming and safe places that compel students, staff, partners, and the community to engage in vibrant, in-person university life.
Embed the University's applied knowledge traditions to create, and learn from, the next generation of place ecosystems and environments for learning and research – supporting local cultures of expertise and creativity both within and beyond RMIT.
Embolden the University value of sustainability by ensuring that the Living Places Plan is agile, resilient, future reaching and regenerative in the fullest sense: of places, people, and cultures.
A physical stage for the Living Places Plan, now open in RMIT Building 42.
Contribute to the conversation and help shape our places.
The stewards of RMIT’s places. We would love to hear from you.
For RMIT Staff – if you want to book a venue, request cleaning or maintenance.
RMIT’s Living Places Plan is committed to Responsible Practice by honouring Traditional Owners and by embedding their principles, perspectives, culture, and practices into our estate management, to create an inclusive and respectful environment that benefits our communities.
Ngarara Place, RMIT City
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Learn more about our commitment to Indigenous cultures
