RMIT Mapping Future Imaginaries enabling impact research network - Making Connection program

The Making Connection co-labs take place at RMIT Melbourne 11-15 December 2023. Produced by the Mapping Future Imaginaries network, Making Connection explores the importance of creative encounters for social connection. Come and co-explore with artists, researchers and industry specialists how creative encounters build our relationships with place, and help design frameworks for making connection.

Making Connection: Is Access an Issue of Ethics

Mental Health & Disability Peer Panel will workshop the topic of access in a capitalist democracy. Access is essential to opportunity, starting in babyhood, rolling thru life to work, where attitudes, self-esteem and thereby capacity have formed. Should we be tackling Australian ethical systemic beliefs or something else in supporting change in access to equality for disabled peoples?

Jenny Hickinbotham is an RMIT PhD candidate in Fine Art with an emphasis on my own lived experience which draws intently on neuroscience, family, social and community relationship connections. I'm a musician writing songs about my own life, politics and the environment and performing with improvising musicians like Joel Stern and Dale Gorfinkel

With Caroline Bowditch, Arts Access CEO, Fay Jackson, Inaugural Deputy Commissioner NSW Mental Health Commission, Neil Turton-Lane, NDIS Advocate, Daryl Taylor, Star Health mental health advocate.

Technical Support and Recording - Dale Gorfinkel

Photo credit: Rudi Williams