Events Seasons

Our Events Seasons curate a selection of events around a theme aligned with regenerative futures.

Exploring how we can rebuild and improve social, environmental and economic systems to create a more just and sustainable world.

We connect the public, government, industry and students so the impact outlives the event. Lasting change needs more than one sector acting alone.

Our approach

During each season, we act as an enabler and amplifier. We support people within RMIT and the wider community to deliver events aligned with RFI and the season's theme.

Our events take a regenerative approach to catering and energy. All events hosted on campus are powered by 100% renewable energy.

Working with a sustainable food expert, we consider our food choices holistically, taking into account supply chains, and the impact it has on the earth. 

Spring 2026 theme: Energy Futures

The power to change everything


How we power our cities, homes and vehicles matters – but so does the energy embedded in everything we build and make. The future of energy isn't just a question of technology. It's a question of transformation. 

What shifts in our society, built environment and economy are needed to move from extracting energy to regenerating it? 

Australia sits at the centre of an acute contradiction: pursuing an ambitious renewable transition while remaining a major fossil fuel exporter. That tension is live, urgent and unresolved – and it's exactly the kind of problem regenerative thinking is built for. 

Join the RMIT Regenerative Futures Institute as we unpack the future of energy, in Australia and beyond, and get to work rebuilding social, environmental and economic systems for a more just and sustainable world.

Understanding Australia’s Energy Transition

As part of Energy Futures, RFI has created an ‘Explainer’, a digestible document providing a snapshot of Australia’s energy use and transition to clean energy.  

To find out more about how Australia is pursuing an ambitious renewable transition while remaining one of the world’s largest energy exporters, read the Explainer.

Events

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Power in Partnership: Lessons from MREP and the Future of Renewable Energy PPAs

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 20 Oct 2026

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.

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Community Network Spotlight: Indigenous Rights, Digital Sovereignty and Community Networks

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 22 Oct 2026

Join the Internet Society's Community Network Infrastructures SIG for a hybrid gathering on Indigenous rights, digital sovereignty and community networks, featuring speakers from Australia, Indonesia, Mexico and North America.

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Designing Regenerative Energy Futures: Design Collider

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 22 Oct 2026

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.

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Regional Energy Resilience: Microgrids and Community Energy Planning

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 23 Oct 2026

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.

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The Energy to Network to Provoke Change: A Relational Workshop Dinner

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 23 Oct 2026

As part of RMIT’s Regenerative Futures Institute (RFI) event season on energy futures, this workshop invites participants to explore what meaningful connectivity means to them in the context of a changing climate and climate emergency.

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Regenerative Futures Institute – I Brought a Thing: Soil

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 27 Oct 2026
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Lecturer Ms. Nooshin Torabi (School of Global, Urban and Social Studies) and Associate Professor Jorge Paz-Ferreiro (School of Engineering) join us to explore 'soil' from their distinct perspectives.

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Regenerative Housing retrofit: The next decade

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 27 Oct 2026

Join leading housing retrofit experts for discussion about regenerative housing retrofit pathways in Australia and opportunities and priorities for the next 10 years.

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Regenerative Foodware: Co-designing Solutions for Reusable, Washable, and Compostable Utensils

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 28 Oct 2026

Join a multi-stakeholder, interdisciplinary workshop applying design thinking to problematise commercial adoption enablers and barriers for regenerative, reusable, washable and compostable utensils through a co-designed action research project.

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RFI Community Forum

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Help power the next phase of the RMIT Regenerative Futures Institute at our Community Forum, closing out our inaugural Energy Futures events season.


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Acknowledgement of Country

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 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples