Events

Engaging for Impact 2019

Join us for three days of interactive sessions with local and international leaders across industry, research and innovation as we identify collaborative opportunities that will help shape our future.

GoNano Innovation and Co-Creation Workshop

The workshop is part of a series of events and activities organised under the EU project GoNano, which aims to achieve better alignment between the multiple stakeholders involved in nanotechnology research and innovation.

The Hidden Practices of Research - CCT Workshop

In this workshop, we question how we do qualitative inquiry and how we conduct research. What we do, how we do it, and why we do it, remains challenging questions.

Artist Panel - What is a Model Citizen?

How can modelling in art create new forms of creative expression? How can modelling citizenship become an activist and activating intervention into the way one understands one’s role in the social and political world, as well as the role that art plays in transforming the modern agora?

Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Seminar Series 2 - Zero Hunger

From 2018–2020, the Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Seminar Series will address each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each seminar focuses on an individual Goal, offering an opportunity to explore the intent of the Goal, its targets, and some of the initiatives being undertaken to deliver on them. Each seminar will be accompanied a Briefing Paper.

Expert seminar: The blockchain economy

Register to attend this expert seminar on the blockchain economy featuring a keynote presentation from Professor Jason Potts, Director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT University in Australia.

10th Australian Pacific Vertiflite Conference on Helicopter Technology

The 10th Australian Pacific Vertiflite Conference on Helicopter Technology is being held during the Airshow 2019.

Digital disruption and your workforce: From here to where?

A free RMIT/C4DE workshop for industry participants focusing on practical steps and case studies your business can utilise to implement smart technologies and also take your workforce along with you.

Sadia Sadia - In Conversation with Evelyn Tsitas

Join installation artist, writer and award-winning record producer Sadia Sadia in conversation with writer and curator Evelyn Tsitas, as they discuss Sadia’s work, motivation and interest in memory, consciousness, and the experience of profound affect in the encompassing aesthetic environment.

Australian International Airshow 2019

Join RMIT at this year's Australian International Airshow 2019 where hundreds of the world's leading innovators will display their latest and most exciting aerospace, aviation and defence products and inventions.

Organisational Gender Diversity and Policy

On the eve of International Women's Day, this event will explore policy reporting and accountability in relation to organisational gender diversity and how organisations can implement effective change.

The Model Citizen - Modelling Surveillance

One of the key drivers of modern citizenship is the way data surveillance has become ubiquitous, effecting almost all areas of everyday life. In this talk, artists Bronek Kozka and Larissa Hjorth address the way their art deals with and explores the currents of modelling surveillance, drawing on wider artistic and political practices as they do so. The talk will end with a Q & A.

The Model Citizen - Modelling Art

How best to model stillness, movement, repetition, labour, and dance?

Masterclass #1: Curating for Future Audiences (and Challenging Established Conventions)

What knowledge is required in today’s world to create unique and immersive experiences that fully engage our socially connected audiences? How do you create quiet collisions that challenge yet excite audiences?

The Model Citizen - Modelling the Viral

Can one conceive of the post-human as virus and virus-like? What will AI machines ‘do to’ model citizenship?

The Model Citizen

The time has come to decide what sort of citizens we want to be. From harvesting the data of the dead to hybrid bio robot citizens, the high stakes are explored in this compelling new exhibition.

The Upload - an immersive work by (((20hz)))

Book your ride in The Upload by (((20hz))) and be transported into the dystopian world of The Model Citizen. From harvesting the data of the dead to hybrid bio robot citizens, the high stakes are explored in The Model Citizen, a compelling new exhibition at RMIT Gallery (8 Feb - 23 March).

Register for ICEGOV2019

Exploring Digital Government Synergies to Foster Equality, Inclusiveness, and Productivity, ICEGOV 2019 is a conference for Industry, Business and Academia on the theory and practice of electronic governance.

Bruised: Art Action and Ecology in Asia

When it comes to ways in which artists address ecological issues, actions can be big or small – it's the action that is important however subtle.

Design fiction masterclass

Speculative design expert Dr James Auger from RMIT's School of Design is delivering this masterclass on design fiction – the new and highly innovative approach to explore and present original visions for the near future.

APICAM 2019

APICAM2019 will be the second iteration of the Asia-Pacific International Conference on Additive Manufacturing (APICAM).

Melbourne Modern: European art & design at RMIT since 1945

In the wake of World War II hundreds of exiled and displaced European artists, architects and designers arrived in Melbourne and sought employment with RMIT.

MasterMakers

This major exhibition explores the Gold and Silversmithing masterclass legacy at RMIT University.

Pleasure & the Grotesque: Decorating Bodies 1980s to Now

Pleasure & the Grotesque explores how artists and designers explore, expand, and embellish the human body.