Regenerative Futures Institute – I Brought a Thing: Electricity

Regenerative Futures Institute – I Brought a Thing: Electricity

  • 29 Sep 2026
  • 12:00pm - 01:00pm
  • FREE
  • Melbourne City
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Dr Jan Brueggemeier (Researcher & Lecturer, Media and Communication) and Dr Renick Bell (Research & Lecturer, Digital Media) join us to explore electricity from their distinct perspectives.

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

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About the 'I Brought a Thing' series

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.

Programme

  • August: Wool
    • What separates a wool industry that regenerates land from one that's degraded to same Country for 200 years?
    • Speakers: Ricarda Bigolin and Laura Main
  • September: Soil
    • We tend it, exhaust it, seal it under concrete. What would our relationship with soil look like if it had to last?
    • Speakers: Nooshin Torabi and Jorge Paz-Ferreiro
  • October: Electricity
    • Always on and never seen. What changes once we have to look at the grid we depend on in the eye?
    • Speakers: Jan Brueggemeier and Renick Bell
  • November: Concrete
    • It's the most-poured material on Earth after water, and one of the hardest to ever take back. What would it take?
    • Speakers: Bronwyn Coate and Carol Bond
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Images, from the top:

  1. 19th century unfinished bag - Smithsonian Museum, Cooper Hewitt Collection
  2. Vibrio tritci nemotode wormsHitchcock Science Illustrations, Public Domain Review 
  3. "Circuit Board - Rohde & Schwarz 42471-12 printed circuit board assembly" by User: Mister RF, Wiki Commons is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. Berlin Wall Fragment - Smithsonian Museum Open Source.

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Acknowledgement of Country

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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