Deep Time Real Time - Opening Celebration

RMIT Culture, the RMIT School of Architecture & Urban Design and the Swayn Gallery of Australian Design are delighted to invite you to the opening celebration of Deep Time Real Time: The 2025 Alastair Swayn Legacy Exhibition.

Exploring design’s relationship to planetary systems through two opposing time scales – ‘deep time’ and ‘real-time’ – this exhibition features an interactive structure designed by architects Simulaa containing geological and material samples and contributions from researchers working across various scientific fields, alongside time-based creative works curated through the lens of ecology, energy and technology.

Deep Time Real Time features creative works and research from Fayen d’Evie, Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen, Alicia Frankovich, Emma Jackson, Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Nicholas Mangan and Cameron Allan McKean, Joel Sherwood Spring and Simulaa, with creative direction by Fleur Watson and co-curated by André Bonnice, Anna Jankovic (RMIT Architecture) and Fleur Watson (RMIT Interior Design).

Join us on Thursday 27 February at 6:00PM for a celebration of the exhibition alongside the RMIT and Swayn communities.

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Deep Time Real Time is on exhibition at RMIT Design Hub Gallery from Tuesday 25 February 2025.

This exhibition is produced by RMIT Culture in partnership with the RMIT School of Architecture & Urban Design and with the support of the Swayn Gallery of Australian Design. Supported by the Victorian Government, with core specimens supplied by the State Drill Core Library.

Access consultancy by Access Lab & Library (ALL).

Design Hub Gallery is located at Level 2, Building 100, RMIT University. Corner of Victoria & Swanston Streets, Carlton.