RMIT at Melbourne Design Week

Presented by Ian de Vere, Ross McLeod, Malte Wagenfeld. An exhibition of design proposals resulting from collaborations between RMIT's Safeness by Design initiative and the strategists and urban planners from the City of Melbourne and the Ajuntament de Barcelona (city council). Date: Thursday 1 April – Sunday 4 April. Location: RMIT Media Portal, 414-418 Swanston Street, Melbourne.

Presented by Nina Gibbes, Dennis Grauel, Jane Connory and Issa Assaad. This panel discussion explores the research and practices of four different designers (Nina Gibbes, Dennis Grauel, Dr Jane Connory and Issa el Assaad) who make space for this important shift towards a design world that is pluralistic, inclusive and diverse. Date: Wednesday 31 March from 3.00-4.00pm. Location: The Capitol – RMIT University.

Presented by Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison as part of the NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair. Gracia and Louise will be binding editions of their new artists' book, Dip and bob, live on their instagram, @gracialouise, on the last day of the fair. Sun 28 Mar, 12pm–2pm.

Presented by Tarryn Handcock & Paul Yacoumis. A digital exhibition and self-guided tour of the city featuring a collection of 'love letters' to Melbourne. Online from Fri 26 Mar.

Presented by Caliper. In the tumult of 2020, Caliper and the RMIT Architecture student elective Proof interrogated the theme of 'shift'. Sun 28 Mar, Collingwood Yards Basement.

Presented by Centre for Architecture, Open House Melbourne, RMIT's Pirjo Haikola, Long Prawn and Furmien. An informative 'hands-on' river float where guests will learn why and how to process and preserve sea urchin as garum (fish sauce) under the creative guidance of food researchers. Date: Friday 26 March, 12.30-2.30pm. Location: Federation Wharf

Presented by Centre for Architecture, Open House Melbourne, RMIT's Dr Pirjo Haikola and supported by Academy of Scuba. Join Dr Pirjo Haikola for a guided snorkel tour and experience the underwater environments of Ricketts Point Sanctury and learn about the ecological issues and opportunities for Port Phillip Bay. Date: 27 March, 10.00am-1.00pm. Location: Rickett's Point Marine Sanctuary

RMIT Professors Sarah Bekessy, Vishaal Kishore, Assoc. Professors Dominic Redfern and Keely Macarow and Royal Melbourne Hospital's Assoc. Professor Katherine Barraclough. The COVID-19 pandemic has left an indelible mark on humans as we struggle with the climate emergency. Speakers from art, design, health and the environment will explore how we can collaborate and respond to these synergetic health and environmental crises. Date: Tuesday 30 March, 6.00-7.00pm. Location: Online

Jorge Arreola, student RMIT Master of Design, Innovation and Technology. The Search for Harmony is an immersive audiovisual installation. It aims to visualize the disturbance of anthropogenic noise pollution onto Earth's bio, geo and chemical system. The Search for Harmony allows the visitor to perceive the invisible and reflect on how individual actions and relationships impact global outcomes. Date: 26 -28 March. Location: Fiona Lynch Studio, Carlton

Presented by Leanne Zilka, Caitlyn Parry, Erica Bollweg, Ava Clifforth, Muhammad Shaukat Ali. This digital interpretation explores the repetition of elements that produce the other-worldly, exquisite and intricate interior of the main theatre of the Capitol Theatre. Date: 26 March – 05 April. Location: The Capitol – RMIT University

Presented by RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formation Lab. An exhibition exploring the positive environmental impact of building-scale 3D printing and its implications for architectural design. Date: 01 April – 05 April. Location: RMIT Design Archives Window Gallery – 154 Victoria Street, Carlton

Presented by Dr Alisa Andrasek and RMIT University. Architecture's inherent ability to synthesize new worlds in the midst of multitude of elements is being upgraded, by introducing more technology and cross-disciplinary knowledge into the formation of buildings and cities. Date: Monday 29 March. Location: The Capitol – RMIT University

Presented by RMIT University's Health Transformation Lab. This online event will highlight the work of designers who are forging interesting and unexpected collaborations with the healthcare sector, to offer to the design community provocations for new ways of working in health. Date: Tuesday 30 March, 3.00-4.00pm. Location: Online

Presented by Dr Tristan Schultz, Professor Lisa Grocott and Dr Desiree Hernandez Ibinarriaga. An exploration of the embodied, situated, social, speculative and reflective orientation of design as a relational practice that can learn from and be deepened by an acknowledgment of Indigenous knowing and being. Date: Wednesday 31 March, 5.00-6.00pm. Location: Online

Presented by Carlo Tolentino, student of RMIT Masters of Animation, Games and Interactivity. An outdoor interactive experience that connects people with music, movement, and nature. Focused on movement and music-making through motion capture and/or environmental interaction. Date: 26 March – 05 April. Location: Online

Presented by Material Assembly (MatA), The Capitol - RMIT University. A response to the unprecedented times we currently live in, through storytelling and the creation of hand held copper discs. The surface of each disc is etched with images from RMIT student and staff experiences during COVID-19. Date: 26 March – 01 April. Location: The Salon at The Capitol - RMIT

Presented by Wendy Steele, Tess Lea, Hélène Frichot and Ashley Dawson. What does it mean to be "wild" in the 21st century? How is the concept of civilisation grounded in damage and dispossession? If we accept that we are in the midst of a climate emergency, what can we do to shift that? Discussion of four new books exploring these questions. Date: 27 March. Location: Bookshop by Uro, Collingwood Yards

Presented by Anastasia La Fey and Holly Durant in partnership with The Capitol - RMIT University. To close their exhibition, What is This? – Thresholds and transgressions in design, art and performance, Anastasia La Fey and Holly Durant are joined by fellow collaborators, cinematographer Lucy Pijnenburg and sound artist Sara Retallick to host a conversation in their exhibition space. Date: 1 April, 3.30-4.30pm. Location: The Capitol – RMIT

Presented by Troy Innocent. Experience 64 Ways of Being before it is released to the public in April 2021. This free AR app brings Melbourne’s laneways, streets, parks and rivers to life via augmented reality – to create a conversation with the city about its past, present and future. From Sun 28 Mar, Steps of Parliament

Presented by Brunswick Design District (BDD) Partnership. This special Design Dialogue Forum brings voices from diverse creative disciplines together to discuss insights and perspectives around: Designed in Brunswick: What does it take to build a Design Community? Thu 01 Apr, Brunswick Town Hall

Presented by RMIT School of Architecture & Urban Design and Thames & Hudson. Launch and panel discussion for the book ‘Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing People & Place’. Tue 30 Mar, The Capitol

Presented by RMIT Gallery. Iconic fashion designer Jenny Bannister started her own label in Melbourne at the height of the 1970s radical fashion movement. Inspired by punk, her label Jenny Bannister Fashion was known for its distinctive and creative approach to design that incorporated plastic, metal, fur and found objects. Fri 26 Mar, RMIT Gallery

Presented by Mary Featherston AM & Suzie Attiwill. Most of our lives are spent living, learning and working within buildings. These patterns of inhabitation are changing as contemporary life makes new demands on our environments. With these dramatic transformations, very few of these emerging spaces will be professionally designed. Sat 27 Mar, Collingwood Yards courtyard

Presented by Cities Cluster, School of Architecture and Urban Design RMIT. A series of alternative visions for the future city that are predicated on a counterfactual notion, a singular ‘what if?’ scenario, that presents a radical alternative to the existing status quo of urban development. Tue 30 Mar, The Capitol

Presented by Philip Samartzis and Wild System. An immersive and visceral experience of the extreme forces shaping Antarctica, one of the world’s most remote and remarkable wilderness ecologies. 28 Mar, The Capitol

Presented by RMIT Design Archives. Discover the story of the designer of these acclaimed Victorian Health Promotion campaigns: ‘Life. Be in it’ and ‘Slip! Slop! Slap!’ in a collection viewing of the archive of Alexander Stitt (1937 – 2016), a graphic designer, illustrator, writer and animator. Date: Thu 01 Apr Location: RMIT Design Archives

Dystopias, Utopias and Back to Futurism on Screen. A collection of 10 visionary sci–fi films, some classic, others populist, and others perhaps idiosyncratic. Past Futures looks away from the stuff of shiny space wars, and towards a survey of the social, political, technological, environmental, interpersonal and existential prophesies dreamed onto the cinema screen over the last century. Program includes, Metropolis, Her, Fahrenheit 451, Silent Running, On Guard, The Handmaid’s Tale, They Live, Gattaca, Bombay Beach and Soylent Green. 26 Mar–1 Apr 2021

Presented by The Capitol — RMIT University and RMIT School of Design. Speculations on the future of food and farming with a Green Renaissance conversation and a screening of Richard Fleischer’s dystopian classic Soylent Green (1973). Thu 01 Apr, The Capitol

Presented by RMIT Design Archives. How can design shape life? Wed 31 Mar, RMIT Design Archives

Presented by RMIT University, School of Design and Queen Victoria Market. In about 60 years’ time, the world could run out of quality topsoil, the non-renewable resource we currently rely on to grow 95 percent of our food. How will we feed ourselves? From Fri 26 Mar, Queen Victoria Market

Presented by RMIT Gallery in partnership with Museum of Brisbane. A celebration of the internationally acclaimed fashion house Easton Pearson. From Fri 26 Mar, RMIT Gallery

Presented by Mariana Bertelli Pagotto and RMIT University. This workshop promotes the collaborative design of interpretation strategies to experience Pieter Huveneers’ art exhibition. Fri 26 Mar, RMIT Design Archives

Presented by M@STUDIO and RMIT Architecture. This exhibition speculates that with a renewed civic and collective vision, Melbourne’s outer-edge suburbs might rival its prized inner-city neighbourhoods. From Fri 26 Mar, RMIT Design Hub

Presented by M@STUDIO and RMIT Architecture. A panel speculates on the governing planning frameworks and development systems that form Melbourne's outer edge suburbs and how these can be warped or reformulated toward alternative patterns and visions for future suburban needs. Thursday 1 April, 6.30-8.30pm. Location: RMIT Design Hub – entry level Gallery

Presented by Heike Rahmann. March 11, 2021 marks the ten-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Tohoku. From Fri 26 Mar, No Vacancy Gallery

Presented by Rhys Cousins and Carolina Rodriguez. Through critical observation of our cultural materiality and social construct, By Texture, translates texture from urban surfaces to digital printed fabric to promote conversation about identity and belonging. From Fri 26 Mar, The Capitol

Presented by Clarice Garcia and RMIT University. In transitional times societies are characterised by complexity and contradiction, where old systems are crumbling while new ones have not yet emerged. Thu 01 Apr, RMIT University (Brunswick Campus)

Presented by RMIT Culture. Building a contemporary craft and design collection is more attainable than you might think. Thu 01 Apr, RMIT University Carlton Library

Presented by Anastasia La Fey and Holly Durant in partnership with The Capitol. Anastasia La Fey and Holly Durant are joined by fellow collaborators, Lucy Pijnenburg and Sara Retallick to host a conversation in their exhibition space. Thu 01 Apr, The Capitol

Presented by Nat Stratos and RMIT University. A panel of ‘circular’ advocates will discuss strategies such as localisation, product stewardship, new business models, co-design, and 3D technology. Mon 29 Mar, Online

Presented by RMIT University. Push the boundaries of design thinking by exploring two interesting yet polarizing design principles (Jugaad and Chindogu) with our fun and interactive online exhibition. From Fri 26 Mar, jugaadogu.com

Presented by Orygen, RMIT University and Portable. This conversation will show how young people, researchers and industry can work collectively to navigate sensitive and often taboo topics. Tue 30 Mar, Orygen

RMIT’s The Capitol brings cinema, new media arts, creative technology and leading ideas together to teach, connect and transform audiences.

RMIT Gallery is a public art gallery presenting an engaging and thought-provoking program of contemporary exhibitions featuring emerging and established artists and curators.

Founded in 2007 the RMIT Design Archives (RDA) holds a unique place among Australia’s collecting institutions for its exclusive focus on design practice across all disciplines.

RMIT Design Hub Gallery exists to ask questions about design’s role in the world today. Through exhibitions, conversations, performances and publications, we explore the process of design – making space to imagine, test and risk new ideas together.