The AEGIS Research Network focuses on cultural responses to global climate change, the social construction of place, and relations between human and non-human animals through interdisciplinary research.
AEGIS responds to how the arts and environmental humanities can draw on the natural sciences to facilitate cultural practices engaging with ecological issues. These issues range from current urban environmental politics, cultural geographies and the social construction of space, to the cultural communication of climate science, extinction studies and multispecies ethnographies.
AEGIS also investigates how different perspectives on history, including Traditional Knowledge Systems, interpret contested relations between human and non-human ecologies.
The following themes reflect areas of expertise across the network.
This project explores what animal extinction means to Australians by using innovative methodologies to assess public responses to images of the extinction crisis, with the aim of understanding the cultural significance of extinction.
Based on the view that contemporary culture is primarily visual, this project addresses gaps in the literature to focus on how Australian visual culture responds to, and is constituted by, the Anthropocene.
This project aims to reveal through creative practice how Settler Colonial perceptions of the land have changed Australian ecosystems.
This project investigates how machine learning and new media respond to the environmental crisis.
Emeritus Prof Linda Williams
School of Art
Emeritus Prof Lesley Duxbury
School of Art
Dr Debbie Symons
School of Art
Dr Clare McCracken
School of Art
Dr Rebecca Najdowski
School of Art
Dr Pia Johnson
School of Art
Isabella Capezio
School of Art
Dr Sam Leach
RMIT alumnus
Damien Rudd
PhD candidate
Membership includes researchers from a range of universities and independent scholars and industry partners. We support ECRs and HDRs in their publications, especially in giving support to critical theory, methods of enquiry, and strategies for public impact.
To get involved reach out to one of the leadership team.
AEGIS is supported by the following Enabling Impact Platforms:
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| Design and Creative Practice | Applying an inventive, exploratory approach to real-world problems through interdisciplinary research, within and beyond design and creative practice. |
| Social Change | Focuses on transformative research in the areas of digital society, quality of life, global mobility and research practice for social change. |
| Urban Futures | Researching how cities can be more resilient, sustainable and regenerative. |
EIPs enable economic, environmental, societal, health and cultural impact with government, business and the community through research and innovation.
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 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.
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.
