What does it mean for a university to be alive?
The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce), RMIT’s Regenerative Futures Institute and Planetary Civics Inquiry are bringing together some thinkers to launch the RMIT × RSA Living University Paper, a provocation about the role of higher education in an era of compounding complexity. https://www.thersa.org/reports/living-university/ Hosted by Naomi Stead (College of Design and […]
Launching RFI…!
Universities are extraordinarily good at adding things. Sustainability offices. Innovation hubs. Interdisciplinary centres that sit adjacent to faculties rather than within them. The addition doesn’t disturb the host. It also doesn’t change it. That distinction, between bolting transformation onto existing structures and designing it inside them, is the reason the RMIT Regenerative Futures Institute (RFI) […]
Three provocations on designing futures worth watching / reflecting…
Over recent weeks, we’ve been hosting talks from visitors who come through Melbourne. Always fun to bring folk into the Design School to ask ourselves what we design, how we come to know communities, technology, and working with multi-species. Excuse the simple video recordings… straight from the laptop! Laura Galluzzo and Davide Fassi from POLIMI […]
What Would It Take to Read the Label?
February’s Futures Collider at RFI put three provocations in a room and asked people to act out the consequences. Seven minutes each. Go… Vanessa Johnston opened from law. AI is dismantling frameworks we’ve spent centuries building: copyright, IP, privacy, because all of them depend on one thing we can no longer reliably do: attribute. Identify […]