DSC Update July 2019

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VISUAL: RMIT University logo.

[Paul Gough]

VISUAL: Paul Gough standing in GUSS building foyer space.

TEXT ON SCREEN: Paul Gough. Pro Vice-Chancellor & Vice President, College of Design and Social Context.

Hi there. Here I am in the new GUSS space in building 8 on level 10 and this is remarkable. This is for the students next door to all the staff.

VISUAL: Paul walks through the space. Then, images of different spaces in the GUSS building.

And upstairs research teams, leadership teams and learning and teaching. Fantastic to have this space.

VISUAL: Paul continues to walk through the GUSS space.

A few things to bring you up to speed on as we reach halfway point of the year.

VISUAL: Still images of different spaces in the GUSS building: a corridor with wide columns covered in blue, white and black small square tiles; a lounge space with green velvet seating lining the wall and a leaf-shaped seating block with green cushions; a reading lounge with hanging lights, bookshelves and a circular lounge seat in the middle; a cafeteria space with people sitting at tables.

I'll start with some thanks and I'll finish with some thanks.

VISUAL: Paul is standing in the foyer space in the GUSS building.

First one is a big call out to the VE staff, to the leadership team, for all of you who are working flat out to reach the compliance. We now have 100% compliance around industry readiness. I'm so pleased, thank you so much for all the work you are doing.

Second thing is an update on the annual operating plan for the College, which is going really well. You know there are five big plans, five big projects we have at the moment.

TEXT ON SCREEN: Collaboration with RMIT Vietnam; Re-energising Capitol Theatre; Cultural assets and engagement plan; Vocational Education; Brunswick Design District.

I'll say a little bit about each of them. One in Hanoi. Hanoi is going really well at the moment. And in November, as preparation for our 20^th anniversary of RMIT being in Vietnam, we are hosting a big conference. A conference around media and design. It links into the creative city ambitions for Hanoi and I'm very excited about that on behalf of all of us who worked so hard in Vietnam.

Second thing is, Capitol Theatre. Wonderful launch, extraordinary launch a couple of months ago. Very excited about the work we are doing with ACMI.

VISUAL: Images of Capitol Theatre interior.

Number of film festivals. Many of you are coming along looking at what we're doing there, and we're going to be moving forward as we open the stage at the end of the month, and we get access into that wonderful kind of fly tower.

VISUAL: Paul is standing in the foyer space in the GUSS building.

So, watch this space. We need you to be involved. We have to work in relationship with ACMI, put all those wonderful film festivals on, and then make it the best we can for staff, students and industry.

Third big project, as you know, is the Brunswick, the campus design. And we're doing a lot of work there. We've got the architects, we've got the master planning underway. We're working closely with industrial design, with fashion, with textiles and with VE and architecture and urban design to make the most of that campus. A lot of you know what's going on there. We're regularly updating you and I'm very excited that we have now started work on the landscape and also on the Dye Garden.

Fifth one really is the public engagement activity we are doing, which, as you know, we've joined together all the archives, the galleries and all the activity we do in our cultural activity across the organisation and into this wonderful city. We are about to go to advert for a head of public and cultural engagement. Look out for the advert. If you know any great people out there, then come back to me and tell us who they are, how we can connect with them, and how we can make this public and cultural engagement activity really work. There's some tremendous shows on at RMIT Gallery at the moment.

VISUAL: Camera pans across an exhibit at the RMIT Gallery with male viewer standing in front of hanging artwork.

A fantastic show about Melbourne Modern, which looks at all the immigrant artists, designers, architects et cetera coming into the city, who made such a difference after the Second World War.

VISUAL: Paul is standing in the foyer space in the GUSS building.

It's a fantastic show, do go and see it.

And finally, another thanks, really, for the many of you who wrote to me saying some lovely things about the six years I've been here and bidding me farewell-- not until the end of the year, as I go on back to a new job in the UK. Thank you so much for the many, many, many messages and I will reach out to all of you. We'll have a number of events, just so I can say thank you to so many of you and this wonderful College. And it shows to me, again, that the DSC, the C in DSC is about caring, it's about community and it's about creating an environment that will do the best for our students and for our staff. So, thank you very much indeed.

VISUAL: RMIT University logo.

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