College of Design and Social Context - Sizzle Reel
RMIT's College of Design and Social Context brings together creative and practical expertise across design, technology and society to address the challenges shaping our futures. Through education, research, and a vibrant program of exhibitions and public events, we connect ideas and people across our disciplines to create new possibilities for society.
Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday
Look back on Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV): an exhibition exploring how contemporary design is reshaping everyday products and systems into solutions that are better for people and the planet.
Welcome to the Symbiocene
It's 2100: Welcome to the Symbiocene invited audiences to imagine a future where human systems work in harmony with the natural world, exploring how hopeful thinking and imagination can guide us through the global disruptions of today. Co-presented by NGV, RMIT University and the Symbiocene Institute as part of Melbourne Design Week 2026.
Black by Nature - Lãnh Mỹ A Silk
Lãnh Mỹ A is a rare textile produced in the Tân Châu silk village in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Handwoven and naturally dyed using the local Mặc Nưa fruit, the deep black silk is recognised as one of Vietnam’s most distinctive traditional textiles. For Plant Life: The Nature of Design at the National Gallery of Victoria, researchers from RMIT University Vietnam have produced a short documentary detailing the making process of the silk material. Watch to see how this rare material that carries centuries-old traditional knowledge is created.
Plant Life: The Nature of Design Opening Talks – Enduring Relationships
The first session of NGV and RMIT’s co-presented program, Plant Life: The Nature of Design Opening Talks, explored how First Nations and traditional knowledge systems across Australia, Vietnam and Peru connect place, community and design, and what contemporary designers can learn from these longstanding relationships. Co-presented by the National Gallery of Victoria and RMIT University
Plant Life: The Nature of Design Opening Talks – New Growth
The NGV and MRIT brought together leading designers, artists, researchers and innovators for an afternoon of vibrant conversations exploring the ideas behind the exhibition Plant Life: The Nature of Design. The second session, New Growth, heard from contemporary designers innovating plant-based, bio-materials and their applications across textiles, construction and product design.
Plant Life: The Nature of Design Opening Talks – Forests and Industry
As part of Plant Life: The Nature of Design Opening Talks, the NGV and RMIT brought together leading designers, artists, researchers and innovators for an afternoon of vibrant conversations exploring the ideas behind the exhibition. The third session Forests and Industry was moderated by NGV’s Ewan McEoin, exploring the complex relationship between agriculture, industry and design, and how plant-based material use in the built environment sector can create more regenerative relationships with the natural world.
ACMI 10-year partnership
RMIT University is ACMI's Major University Partner, a 10-year collaboration that has become a cornerstone of Australia's screen-based creative industries. RMIT's partnership with Australia's national museum of screen culture creates rich and diverse opportunities for collaborative public programming, and student, academic and public engagement.
