Regenerative Design as an Energy System
Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be transformed. This immersive session invites architects to ask a bigger question: transformed toward what?
RMIT City North Shared Futures Festival 2026
RMIT City North Shared Futures Festival returns to Cardigan Street on Saturday 3 October for a free day of creativity, community and discovery. Explore food, performances, workshops, technology, design, urban growing and hands-on activities for all ages, and experience the City North Social Innovation Precinct as a living lab in action.
2035 EV Battery Negotiations
What happens to your EV battery when it dies? In 2035, millions of Australians will be asking that question. The 2035 EV Battery Negotiations is a live-action role-play workshop where you become the policymaker, recycler, or household trying to solve it. Come negotiate the future of Australia's battery economy.
Healing cultures: designing regenerative systems
How do we create material cultures, economies, and innovations that actively heal and restore energy? What does it mean to design not just for zero waste, but for positive impact?
Beyond Efficiency: Advancing a Regenerative Society through Material Transparency
An industry roundtable to help co-design Australia's Digital Product Passport (DPP) future – tracing solar panels and inverters for a more transparent, regenerative economy.
Wild Hope: What if hope is something we grow, together?
Join Wild Hope author Claire Scobie and Regen Melbourne CEO Kaj Löfgren in conversation with Chris Speed Director of the Regenerative Futures Institute for an evening of stories, conversation and hands-on hope, shaped by everyone in the room.
Beyond Extraction: Documentary and Regenerative Futures
Beyond Extraction is a screening event exploring energy, extraction and colonial image-making through artist film. The event explores Indigenous and transnational perspectives, examining how moving images shape understandings of resource extraction, land, knowledge and possible regenerative futures.
Living through it: adaptation, justice and who gets to survive
How can communities build disaster resilience? How do we prepare future generations for a world defined by climate, change and inequity?
Everflow: Birrarung Riverfest Closing Event
Join the closing event of Birrarung Riverfest 2026 for an immersive evening of Deep Listening, music, sound-sculptural installation and projection art.
Power in Partnership: Lessons from MREP and the Future of Renewable Energy PPAs
Panel discussion on RMIT's Melbourne Renewable Energy Project Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) — lessons, the future of PPAs, and how they can embed social, ecological and First Nations value. Chaired by RMIT Sustainability Team.
Designing Regenerative Energy Futures: Design Collider
Interactive design lab launching the Regenerative Futures Design Canvas. Keynote + lightning provocations, interdisciplinary team design sprint, gallery walk and vote, closing drinks. Led by the EARTH Research Group.
Regional Energy Resilience: Microgrids and Community Energy Planning
The Regional Energy Resilience roundtable brings together industry, local government and academic experts to explore how regional and rural Australia can be supported through resilient electrification, microgrids and community-focused energy planning.
