Events

Darren Sylvester : SPEAKER Artist Talk

Darren Sylvester is a true multidisciplinary artist working in photography, sculpture, video, installation, performance and music. Often the results are of a detailed process of planning and research, involving a wide range of pop culture elements where resurrected moments and artefacts are designed to investigate the language between high and low culture, mixing together authenticity, desirability and mortality.

Cosmopolitical Relations & more-than-human Design Ethnography

In this talk I want to explore how living in ‘a world of many worlds’ reconfigures relations amongst humans, nonhuman animals, plants, elements and forces of the Earth—and what that might mean for practicing design ethnography in difficult times.

School of Health and Biomedical Sciences: HDR Information Evening

Are you considering doing a research degree at RMIT?

Designa Monologues: Why Media Ecologies?

Dr John Lenarcic and Dr Pradip Sarkar (RMIT School of Business IT and Logistics) present an overview of the big ideas of British media theorist Matthew Fuller.

RMIT Law Seminar Series – Twilight Seminar on Criminal Records

Criminal record checking is a common part of employment now in Australia. Some jobs require exclusion of people with particular criminal histories but many employers request a criminal record check as a routine form of general risk management.

present tense .2 Auto-Response

Autoresponse is about the interconnectivity between writing, art and dance. Featuring four prolific artists, this performative event uses reflection and response to challenge dominant storytelling narratives.

David Rosetzky : SPEAKER Artist Talk

Join artist David Rosetzky as he discusses the collaborative process involved in the development of 'Composite Acts' his new video commission for the 2019 Channels Festival, as well as his broader practice across photography and video.

Master of Social Work Information Session

Do you want to drive positive change in your community? Or be a voice for the marginalised?

Disaster, Design & Development Research Forum

A two-day research forum in Barcelona to build teaching and research collaboration across universities working in the disaster, design and displacement fields.

Transitioning into University - for Prospective Students and their Families

The transition from high school into university can be confusing, overwhelming and exciting all at the same time!

2019 RMIT Q Group Finance Symposium

Presented by the RMIT School of Economics, Finance and Marketing and the Q Group, the RMIT Q Group Finance Symposium 2019 brings together RMIT's leading academics and industry leaders to explore, unpack and discuss high impact research around topical and highly debated issues in the finance discipline.

Catherine Truman : SPEAKER Artist Talk

An experimental talk based on the absence, transition, processing and observation of light.

2019 Higinbotham Lecture – Sport and Human Rights: Can Sport Change the World?

RMIT University welcomes Human Rights advocate Craig Foster to deliver the 2019 Higinbotham Lecture, "Sport and Human Rights: Can Sport Change the World?"

Workshops: Lean Start-up Research and Co-Creation for RRI

These workshops are 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.

Super Tight Exhibition

Super Tight explores the culture of spatial tightness emerging in Asian cities and its creative potential. This immersive exhibition considers techniques for living closely, unpacking the delight and difficulty that arises from the dense occupation of large cities.

Adapt

Currently there are more unused mobile phones per head of population in Australia. Research in sustainable practice continues to question the methods of reclaiming, reusing and recycling materials in a global economy based on built-in obsolescence. In response to the proliferation of e-waste globally and in consideration of the processing of recyclates artists Nicky Hepburn, Liv Boyle and Belinda Newick will explore and repurpose materials of e-waste into jewellery and objects.

Vestiges

Enar de Dios Rodriguez is a guest of SITUATE as a part of the 2019 SITUATE Austrian Arts Residency Exchange.

Building Value in Healthcare

Hosted by RMIT University and Vall D’Hebron University Hospital, Building Value in Healthcare is bringing together industry leaders in the European healthcare sector for a conversation around understanding what drives purchasing and the new paradigm under Value-Based Healthcare (VBHC).

EnGenius 2019

EnGenius showcases RMIT University School of Engineering undergraduate students' final year projects, each providing an innovative design solution to a real-world problem.

Business Research Showcase 2019

RMIT University’s College of Business is proud to host its annual Business Research Showcase. Celebrating the College’s excellent research, the 2.5 day schedule features panel discussions which aim to stimulate intellectual discourse and engage an audience of academics, students and industry partners.

Global Gender Economics Conference - Challenging Economics, Society and Gender

Two days of powerful talks. The Centre for Gender Economics in conjunction with RMIT University present the GGEC19 conference in Melbourne, October 2019.

Melbourne Mechanobiology Symposium 2019

We are delighted to invite you to the 2019 Melbourne Mechanobiology Symposium. This two-day symposium aims to provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary networking and collaboration. Topics will address the recent advances on the role of mechanical forces in cellular physiology, their clinical implications as well as emerging methods and techniques.

Insistent. Gestures.

This exhibition brings together the work of five artists who live, work or were born in Asia to explore personal narratives.

MasterMakers

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

Ocean Plastics Congress: Turning the tide

Waste plastics in our oceans now cover an area the size of France. Marine environments have become dangerously degraded and microplastics are now entering the human food chain with unknown short-term and long-term effects on health.

Call for Papers (Conference) – Activism @ the Margins: Stories of Resistance, Survival and Social Change

The voices and lived experiences of those directly affected by oppression are now front and centre in protest movements. Women of colour, migrants, refugees, Indigenous and LGBTQAx communities as well as climate change activists are powerfully and unapologetically affecting change through a broad range of actions. These protest actions are now occurring at unprecedented scale and speed – from speaking up and out, to educating and organising others in their communities, to urging elected political and community leaders to support efforts to mobilise for and with the most marginalised, disadvantaged and vulnerable in society.

Pleasure & the Grotesque: Decorating Bodies 1980s to Now

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