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In the process, they will uncover unexpected connections between design, making, sustainability and the systems that shape how we live.
Audience members will be encouraged to participate in the conversation during the seminar. Bring your ideas, questions and perspectives to topic. Expect one hour of ideas, contrast and conversation – and a fresh way of looking at something we thought we knew.
If you have any suggestions on future topics, please let us know when you register.
This event is part of the Energy Futures events season, presented by the RMIT Regenerative Futures Institute.
Where: RMIT University Swanston Library, City Campus, Rocking Chair Lounge, Building 12, Level 6, Room 105
Each month, two RFI Fellows from different disciplines sit down with one material (the stuff we mine, weave, wire and pour) to ask what a more regenerative relationship with it could look like. Four conversations, one season, on selected Tuesdays from August to November 2026, 12pm–1pm, Rocking Chair Lounge, Swanston Library.
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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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