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Come and experience a driverless future and learn about a world-first living laboratory based on the streets of Melbourne. AIMES (Australian Integrated Multimodal EcoSystem), led by the University of Melbourne, is testing highly integrated transport technology with a goal to improve transport safety, congestion and sustainability.
Bringing transport systems into the 21st century means connecting all elements of the network. From vehicles to the traffic lights, to trams, buses, cyclists and pedestrians, AIMES is developing infrastructure that will allow all road users to connect with each other, sense their environment and cooperate.
Stop by to see the Autonobus at Prototype Street or stop by for a ride on Tuesday 21 May or Saturday 25 May between 12pm &#8211; 2pm or 4pm &#8211; 6pm. The bus ride is not wheelchair accessible.
Take the future for a test run on <a href="https://mkw.melbourne.vic.gov.au/events/prototype-street/">Prototype Street</a>, a pop-up exhibition where you can view and interact with a re-imagined street of the future, outside the MKW Hub in the heart of the Melbourne Innovation District.

Tuesday 21 May - Sunday 26 May, various times

Prototype Street - Blackwood Street, North Melbourne VIC, Australia

Smart Cities

Design

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Technology

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Autonobus

Autonobus: Take a ride on a driverless bus

Exhibition

Experience

Autonobus: Take a ride on a driverless bus - Melbourne Knowledge Week 2019

Music

To launch MKW19, we present Duet LIVE – a live-scored, fully-immersive gaming experience that puts you in control. Behind this game’s simple facade is a thrilling philosophical depth and a mesmerising soundtrack by electronic musician Tim Shiel, performed with a four-piece band and string quartet. Come to the Hub, where you can choose to face off against a fellow audience member, or sit back and let the music and visuals wash over you. Stick around to enjoy the opening night party.
“A masterpiece of simplicity, feeling and flow.” – Ben Kuchera, Polygon.
Featuring:
<ul>
<li>Laptop &#8211;  Tim Shiel</li>
<li>Keys &#8211; Luke Howard</li>
<li>Drums &#8211; Leigh Fisher</li>
<li>Guitar &#8211; Leonard Grigoriyan</li>
<li>String quartet &#8211; Erkki Velthiem, Bridget Graham, Lizzy Welsh and Alister Barker</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://timshiel.bandcamp.com/album/duet-original-soundtrack?fbclid=IwAR2VCx7dZIyyri-wM-tEXQkoXCPiOZHGUNo5M_OAklFA6SNiWXtyFrq5Sp4">Tune into the smooth tunes of Duet</a> before the spectacular live performance.

Tim Shiel is a musician and radio broadcaster based in Melbourne. He is known for his award-winning soundtracks for the games Duet and The Gardens Between, and for his on-air roles at Triple J and Double J. He is also the founder of local artist-run music label Spirit Level.

Join the futuristic celebrations with this award-winning interactive gaming and musical experience - Duet Live by electro-musician Tim Shiel. Play the game on the big screen in the Hub against other audience members to the accompaniment of pumping synths and base. Navigate the journey of two orbiting spheres through an increasingly complex maze of falling obstacles - then prepare for mounting tension against your gaming opponent as the difficulty increases and the story unfolds. It is a whole new way to experience music and gaming - and launch this year’s Melbourne Knowledge Week festivities.

Developed by Melbourne indie game studio Kumobius, Duet was released on iOS and Android in 2014 to wide critical acclaim, winning game of the year awards from Apple, The New Yorker and Kotaku, and becoming the App Store charts’ Top 10 game in over 25 countries. Tim Shiel's album-length soundtrack became an instant classic.

Opening night: Duet Live by Tim Shiel

Don a pair of headphones plugged into Terrain, a custom-built app, to navigate through the Hub and experience a 3D audio journey of discovery. Explore the individual instruments and textures that make up this rich soundscape, which adapts to your movements through the transformed space. Transport yourself through the insides of a song and float off to an alternative audio landscape everyday or evening in the Hub during Melbourne Knowledge Week.

Terrain: Take a walk inside a song

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Tim Shiel headshot

Tim Shiel

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Duet by Tim Shiel

Performance

Come along to this traditional pickling workshop to contemplate the workplace of days gone by and decide if the jobs of the past hold the key to a smarter employment future, all while getting hands-on preparing this simple and delicious preserved snack. Take your time to think carefully and create with purpose &#8211; learn how we can better integrate old ways of working into our future careers to help keep it human. Give the cucumbers a chance to explain.

BRM Projects

Melbourne Innovation Districts

Steve Schmidt is Director of Work Design at BRM Projects with more than 15 years creative and commercial experience in retail, fashion and hospitality supported by tertiary training in architecture and sustainable design. Steve offers an unique suite of design skills and business understanding, ensuring client projects are translated and delivered to meet every need &#8211; functionally, economically and stylistically.
Steve joined BRM Projects as Director in 2014, bringing with him an innovative vision for design and change management to the workplaces of large scale companies and not-for-profits. He is dedicated to forming a new culture of work and strengthening the relationship between design and organisational performance.

Come along to this traditional pickling workshop to contemplate the workplace of days gone by and decide if the jobs of the past hold the key to a smarter employment future, all while getting hands-on preparing this simple and delicious preserved snack. Take your time to think carefully and create with purpose - learn how we can better integrate old ways of working into our future careers to help keep it human. Give the cucumbers a chance to explain.

How can a pickled cucumber shape the future worker?

Steve Schmidt

Join us for a day of discussion about the current and future potential of MID City North at Melbourne Knowledge Week 2019.
Discover the purpose of innovation districts globally, connect with the future of transport, get across the latest in health and wellbeing research and technology and understand the value of social innovation for City North and the people that live, work and play in the MID.
Our line up of speakers includes:
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<li>Rob Hull, former Attorney-General and Director of the Centre for Innovative Justice</li>
<li>Jan Tennent, CEO of Biomedical Research Victoria</li>
<li>Simon Young, General Manager for the Internet of Things at CISCO</li>
<li>Lars Coenen, City of Melbourne Chair of Resilient Cities at the University of Melbourne</li>
</ul>
Melbourne Innovation Districts (MID) is a partnership between the City of Melbourne, RMIT University and the University of Melbourne to develop urban innovations for the benefit of the whole city.

Take a seat in the Hub for a morning of storytelling, performance and ideas with recent recipients of the Hugh Rogers Fellowship. Hear how our local innovators used a research trip to Boston to turn curiosity and hard work into impactful collaborative projects and business ventures. From Melbourne to Boston and back again, these scholars highlight how these great cities and their smartest people lead the way in inspired knowledge and excellence.

The Hugh Rogers Fellowship, a joint initiative by the Melbourne-Boston Sister Cities Association with the support of the City of Melbourne, has been awarded to talented, early-career professionals in health sciences, the arts and education since 2010.

Meet the minds of the Melbourne-Boston research showcase

The launch has become one of the largest startup networking events in Australia, attracting investors, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders, all eager to discover the latest emerging entrepreneurial talent - with some of Australia’s most recognised startups including Honee, Carbar, CNSDose and Brosa having all taken the stage in recent years.

Secure your ticket to be the first to meet the 2019 Accelerator cohort. MAP will be contributing all proceeds from ticket sales ($5.95 per ticket) to carbon offset initiatives supported by the City of Melbourne.

2019 Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) Launch

Global lighting design firm Arup, in collaboration with These Are The Projects We Do Together, lead a two-hour urban tour and workshop inviting you to learn about lighting design and reimagine our streets after dark. Curate and light up your evening with sound, projection and colour, while playing and interacting with lights in the city context. Come together with people of all backgrounds to discuss the urban experience, provide feedback on how to improve your safety and reimagine the streets of the night.

How would you light up the city after dark?

What is the public purpose of innovation districts?

Connectivity and the future of transport

Social innovation panel

Health research and technology in the Melbourne Innovation District

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MID map

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Melbourne Innovation Districts forum

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Workshop

Take a seat in the Hub for a morning of storytelling, performance and ideas with recent recipients of the Hugh Rogers Fellowship. Hear how our local innovators used a research trip to Boston to turn curiosity and hard work into impactful collaborative projects and business ventures. From Melbourne to Boston and back again, these scholars highlight how these great cities and their smartest people lead the way in inspired knowledge and excellence.
The Hugh Rogers Fellowship, a joint initiative by the Melbourne-Boston Sister Cities Association with the support of the City of Melbourne, has been awarded to talented, early-career professionals in health sciences, the arts and education since 2010.

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