Current projects

This is a space where communities, activists, and researchers come together to engage in praxis – the continuous interplay of transformative action and critical reflection.

This project uses case studies, supported by literature review, to provide insights for Local Government interventions for improving housing outcomes, and to play a crucial role in addressing the prevailing issues with housing supply in Australia.

Activity-based and agent-based Transport model of Melbourne.

This project will help us better understand multidimensional, cascading, and compounding disaster impacts (known and emergent), and the vulnerabilities and resilience of major urban areas in Australia.

The project investigates the liveability factors that influence healthy ageing.

Mapping intersections of gender and place-based responses to summer heat vulnerability.

Developing new safe cycling indicators for inclusion in the Australian Urban Observatory digital liveability platform

RMIT’s Healthy Liveable Cities Lab’s city-wide transport and health simulation model aims to support equitable access to walking and cycling across Greater Melbourne.

The Project will advance a new relational logic and a history that enhances the capacity of regional planning and development authorities in their future relationship with Indigenous people.

This project investigates contemporary conditions of dwelling precarity on stolen Indigenous land.

Australia’s first detailed account of the lived experience of food-related single-use plastic through everyday practices and analyse the limitations in existing policies and programmes arising from the uneven impacts of plastic bans across society.

Cafe Lab is a zero-waste food justice cafe that aims to support insecure Melburnians and contribute to building a sustainable and low carbon hospitality sector.