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Deep Time Real Time: The 2025 Alastair Swayn Legacy Exhibition explores the relationship between design and planetary systems through two opposing temporal scales – ‘deep time’ and ‘real time’.

Lifting its title from a misheard line in a 1980 song by The Fall about a reclusive dog breeder whose ‘hideous replica’ haunts industrial Manchester, this experimental project—an admixture of artworks, performances, screenings, workshops, a ‘replica school’ and other uncanny encounters—adopts monstrous replication as a tactic, condition and curatorial framework for exploring algorithmic culture, simultaneously alienating, seductive and out-of-control. Curated by Joel Stern and Sean Dockray.

Edited by RMIT Architecture academics Dr. Christine Phillips, Associate Professor Conrad Hamann and Thomas Muratore, this Journal issue celebrates Graeme Gunn (1933–2024), his award-winning architecture and legacy. Contributors include Norman Day, Stuart Harrison, Karl Fender and more.

A catalogue for the exhibition 'Future Folds', which was curated by Sukanya Deshmukh and Malte Wagenfeld and produced by RMIT Culture. 'Future Folds' was presented at Design Hub Gallery from 11 July to 10 August 2024.

Marking 30 years of RMIT’s fashion and textile design collection, this issue, edited by Dr. Noel Waite, features essays by Waite and Dr. Tarryn Handcock. Designed by Letterbox, it showcases the collection’s rich diversity and national significance.

The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt explores his profound impact on artists Janet Passehl, Fransje Killaars, Irene Barberis and Wilma Tabacco. Curated by Barberis, the exhibition celebrates LeWitt’s legacy through connections of friendship, community and creative influence.

This report reflects on the initiatives of our RMIT Culture's Galleries, Collections, Partnerships and Events throughout 2023 and highlights their impact.

Published by RMIT's Bowen Street Press with RMIT Culture, this illustrated book celebrates McCraith House. It chronicles its 1957 design by Chancellor & Patrick, family history and transformation into a creative residency site, inspiring over 80 practitioners.

Loved Melbourne Knowledge Week? Missed MKW, but wish you had been there? This episode summarises and spotlights key moments from each event—Melbourne’s Future as a Digital City, What Does Waste Mean to You?, and A Space to Shape Place.

What is the blockchain? What might the future look like with Melbourne becoming an increasingly digital domain? For answers to these questions and more, join the co-founders of the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, Chris Berg and Jason Potts, for a discussion about our digital future, and a short glimpse into the blockchain-enabled world that awaits us.

In this episode, RMIT Culture and Melbourne Knowledge Week explore Melbourne's waste management challenges and innovative solutions, featuring experts discussing sustainability, recycling and the city's future.

Writer, critic and academic Delia Falconer discusses her book 'Signs and Wonders: dispatches from a time of beauty and loss', a series of essays exploring and reflecting on our relationship with the natural world. This episode was developed as part of RMIT Culture's collaboration with the 2021 Melbourne Writers Festival, and forms part of a series on creatives responding to crises.

Renowned artist and RMIT researcher Vicki Couzens discusses concepts of sovereignty, resilience and the importance of language in the sharing of culture. Vicki Couzens is a Gunditjmara woman from the Western Districts of Victoria and specialises in indigenous language revitalisation.

Learn how to write a winning pitch for your narrative nonfiction proposal. Writers and publishers, Ronnie Scott, Arwen Summers and Emily Clements, take you through the most important steps: how to write a synopsis and chapter outline, what to include in your sample chapter, how to stand out with your title and biography, and how to finish it off (formatting and polishing).

How do writers come up with their nonfiction ideas? And what role does research play in the writing process? Join writers and publishers, Ronnie Scott, Arwen Summers and Emily Clements, in this illuminating and insightful discussion about how emerging writers find ideas, how to know when an idea is a good one, how peers can help you develop your ideas, and the role of research in narrative nonfiction.

This episode aims to unpack the genre of narrative nonfiction, observing the traits and tricks of reading and writing this exciting and growing genre. With the help of industry experts including Arwen Summers, Emma Shortis, Emily Hart, Youjia Song and Emily Clements, the ideas and understandings of narrative nonfiction unfold.