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Auslan interpretation on request

Wheelchair accessible

Explore the exciting, scary, hopeful and unlikely scenarios that could emerge in your city in this interactive and creative workshop with your fellow time-travelers. Investigate how visions of the future pondered by last year’s MKW participants hold up today and play with new possibilities. Generate ideas for what is probable or preferable, or what should be ditched in Melbourne 02050.

Melbourne Speculative Futures

Bridgette is a pracademic working across design, strategic foresight and culture. With 20 years&#8217; experience in brand, design and innovation strategy, Bridgette&#8217;s work focuses on the potential of design and futures to tackle challenges intersecting people, community and systems.
Bridgette is keen to see design shape preferred futures, not just the ‘business as usual’ stuff we’re told to expect. More importantly, she’s interested in how our individual agency will help us get to better tomorrow.

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Feed your curiosity with this day-long exhibition and a panel discussion on society’s fetish with the humble kitchen and the way it is depicted in film, television and advertising. Delve into the shiny world of marble benchtops, sparkling stovetops and various kitchen appliances as they appear on screen. From share-houses to showrooms, in the community or on glossy real estate ads, compare the image of the perfect kitchen with the reality of how they are used in the real world at Kitchen narratives.

Kitchen narratives

Explore the exciting, scary, hopeful and unlikely scenarios that could emerge in your city in this interactive and creative workshop with your fellow time-travelers. Investigate how visions of the future pondered by last year’s MKW participants hold up today and play with new possibilities. Generate ideas for what is probable or preferable, or what should be ditched in Melbourne 02069.

Design Melbourne 02050

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Bridgette Engeler

<a href="https://kirstenmday.wordpress.com/">Dr Kirsten Day</a> is Director of Interior Architecture and lecturer in the Department of Architectural and Industrial Design at Swinburne.
She is a director of Norman Day + Associates Architects. Her publications, workshops, and design studios explore the themes of future scenarios and the impact of change.

Explore how design can create more cohesive community spaces and improve the wellbeing of people living in high-density residential housing with an expert panel and Q&amp;A session by Swinburne University’s School of Design. Delve into the dynamics of how home, work, design and change impacts the way we move and interact with each other in common areas. Let’s find ways to make the in-between spaces of apartment living into welcoming, usable and sustainable shared places for building a sense of community with our neighbours.

Re-thinking high-density residential design: Home, work, wellness

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Kirsten Day

Dr Kirsten Day

Towards Melbourne 02050 is a day focused on the future of our city brought to you by <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Speculative-Futures/">Melbourne Speculative Futures</a>, the Melbourne Chapter of an international network for those interested in speculative design, critical design and design fiction.
As the world around us continuously shifts towards unfamiliar places, Melburnians are tasked with adapting to new ideas, technologies and identities. How do we collectively create the Melbourne of tomorrow? What do we need to do to get there? And how do we hold in balance that your preferred future is not their preferred future?
The day explores themes around the future of the home, food and cultural expression as well as human/machine interaction and non-binary futures. Sessions use workshops and interactive, immersive and experiential formats to investigate the journey towards Melbourne 02050.
By attending this day, audience members will learn, contribute and define the future we create everyday together.

The post-gender bubble

Convo and Local Peoples present: Speculative futures dinner

Chorus of voices

the loop by PluginHUMAN

As the world around us continuously shifts towards unfamiliar places, Melburnians are tasked with adapting to new ideas, technologies and identities. How do we collectively create the Melbourne of tomorrow? What do we need to do to get there? And how do we hold in balance that your preferred future is not their preferred future?
The day explores themes around the future of the home, food and cultural expression as well as human/machine interaction and non-binary futures. Sessions use workshops and interactive, immersive and experiential formats to investigate the journey towards Melbourne 02050.
By attending this day, audience members will learn, contribute and define the future we create everyday together.

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Towards Melbourne 02050

Meat Market, 3 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne VIC, Australia

Explore the exciting, scary, hopeful and unlikely scenarios that could emerge in your city in this interactive and creative workshop with your fellow time-travelers. Investigate how visions of the future pondered by last year’s MKW participants hold up today and play with new possibilities. Generate ideas for what is probable or preferable, or what should be ditched in Melbourne 02069.

Futures

Smart Cities

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Workshop

Design Melbourne 02050 - 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

Design

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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.

Design Melbourne 02050

Getting There

Areas of Interest

Getting There

Speakers

Bridgette Engeler

Dr Kirsten Day

Areas of Interest

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Design Melbourne 02050

Getting There

Areas of Interest

Getting There

Speakers

Bridgette Engeler

Dr Kirsten Day

Areas of Interest

Proudly presented by

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