RMIT Design Hub Gallery exists to ask questions about design’s role in the world today.

Joined February 2020
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Excited to announce we are back on Twitter! While #DesignHubGallery is temporarily closed, our channels online are open. You can still enjoy our programs, including the current exhibition #MetahavenFieldReport, from afar. Visit designhub.rmit.edu.au and follow us @rmitdesignhub

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We also have Kate Rhodes @rmitdesignhub on #collaboration between curators and architects, Marina Khémis on recent projects @StudioGardere and David Francis, Luo Pan and Lisheng Zhang @UCLarchaeology on China’s museum boom (2/2) musex-design.org/full-progra…

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We are going live shortly at 5pm with Reflecting on Metahaven: Field Report, a Q A with Metahaven @mthvn. Part of #OpenHouseMelbourne2020. Watch online here: bit.ly/2Oir64X

"Congestion can be mined as a rich seam of desires around lifestyle, social frisson, and belonging." RMIT's Paul van Herk leads the Melbourne case study for 'Cultures of Congestion' - a new project by Strelka and @art___rebels
How can thinking "through" congestion provoke and accelerate new urban cultures? Can the phenomenon teach us something new about our cities? Find out more with Cultures of Congestion, a special project by Strelka & @art___rebels stre.lk/congestion
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22 Jun 2020
The Victorian Government's Community Crime Prevention Fact Sheet for Gender-sensitive Design has been published. ⁠ ⁠ Several of the XYX Lab's projects and collaborations have been mentioned alongside the work of many more great resources. Link - soo.nr/F7pG
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19 Jun 2020
Pre-order on Bandcamp: The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda) Original Soundtrack by @kuedo_. 100% of proceeds until 31st Aug to @NAACP_LDF and @BLMUKkuedo.bandcamp.com/album/the…
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Tune in to spaced-apart.com this morning for our Q&A with Melbourne based artist, jeweller, writer and educator Roseanne Bartley. 10am MEL time at spaced-apart.com.
Important development:
10 Jun 2020
#BREAKING there is now an official petition on the Parliament House website calling for support for the arts and entertainment sector. It was submitted by Chloe Dallimore and went live today. No one should be left behind. aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=… #arts #livemusic #festivals
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‘There cannot be 432 victims and no perpetrators…’ The Saturday Paper has taken @amymcquire's article from this Saturday out from behind the paywall. Recommended. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news…

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Reconciliation is NOT social justice and Native Title is NOT Aboriginal sovereignty. Try not to conflate them non Indigenous Australia!
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“We should remember that this idea of framing everything in terms of the economy is a new thing in human history. The pandemic has shown us the economy is a very narrow and limited way of organising life and deciding who is important and who is not“ theguardian.com/world/2020/j…
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This coming Monday 1st June I will be chatting with Kim Bridgland and Aaron Roberts about our work 'In Absence'. If your'e free between 2-3pm see the link below - bookings are essential :) ngv.vic.gov.au/program/in-co…

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The 'Bringing them Home' report was released 23 years ago today, and chronicled the painful history of forced family separation. On this #SorryDay we are remembering these stories and our thoughts are with survivors and communities. #SorryDay #NRW2020 #Solidarity
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We'll be tuning in @naomistead @JustineClark !
So .. @_parlour is planning a new online event series, and @naomistead made do a video with her. Find out more, and have a laugh at me, here vimeo.com/418737606
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30 Apr 2020
We've lost a good friend and contributor to the history of MoMA PS1, Germano Celant (1940–2020). He organized "The Knot" (1985) at PS1, the first exhibition in NY that brought together 12 major postwar "arte povera" Italian artists working in materials like rags, paper, and rope.
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It took us ages to find, but it was the obvious choice to open the @ArchReview Tourism issue ✈️ Drawn by Airbus in the days before computer modelling, this ghostly plane outline and its empty chairs speak poignantly of the uncertain future of flying bit.ly/2KPCBiM
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Join #TheTerraforming on April 24, 6 pm (Moscow time) for The Revenge of the Real online colloquium. Register strelka.zoom.us/webinar/regi… Presentations by researchers and faculty: Benjamin Bratton, Nicola Twilley, Geoff Manaugh, Holly Jean Buck, and EGS faculty Jean-Luc Nancy.
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If you missed the live stream last night, you can catch up with a recording of the Earth Day Symposium on Dezeen's Virtual Design Festival website.
22 Apr 2020
Today we're partnering with @TheWrldAround to celebrate #EarthDay2020 with an online symposium of talks, presentations and films by over twenty visionaries at the forefront of ecological design. Tune in from 1:00pm UK time at: dezeen.com/vdf #VDF #theworldaround
Announcing Work in Progress – a new podcast by Design Hub Gallery. The first episode features @mthvn reflecting on the the development of their practice and their current exhibition #MetahavenFieldReport. designhub.rmit.edu.au/exhibi…

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// @bratton on QUARANTINE URBANISM "What are the important lessons to be learned before the normality that caused mayhem returns? A second wave of the virus would be catastrophic, but so would another wave of its underlying causes." strelkamag.com/en/article/18…

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