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.

Mapping Migratory Meeals at the Ends of the World: MMMEEOW!

Please join us for a shared ‘meal at the ends of the world’ to explore the relationships between food cultures, migration and the politics of listening.

Access information: B50 is wheel chair accessible with an all gender toilet. N95 masks and hand sanitiser will be available.

Please email marnie.badham@rmit.edu.au if you have any other access concerns we can assist with.

Artists:

Stephen Loo, UNSW Steve’s research and practice lies at the transdisciplinary nexus of art, design, philosophy, and performance. He has published widely on biophilosophy, posthumanist ethics, ecological humanities and experimental digital thinking. His current interest is in eating / food, psychophysiology and more-than-human ethics and justice, through the sonic and taste ecologies; and radical pedagogies as modes of knowledge creation.

Marnie Badham, RMIT Marnie’s research sits at the intersection of socially-engaged art practice, participatory methodologies, and the politics of cultural measurement. Through aesthetic forms of encounter and exchange and a focus on relational ethics, her creative practice brings together disparate groups of people in dialogue to examine and affect local issues.

Poppy de Souza, UNSW Poppy is an interdisciplinary researcher with a diverse portfolio career that leans across cultural, creative and critical research and practice. Her scholarship focuses on the politics of ‘voice’ and ‘political listening’ in conditions of inequality and injustice across a range of contexts, with a critical (and sensory) interest in borderscapes, boundaries, frontiers and thresholds.

Samid Suliman, Griffith Samid is a Senior Lecturer in Migration and Security in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Scientist. As an interdisciplinary political scientist, he is interested in the politics of migration and mobility, global development, climate change, rights, justice, and the political possibilities of art and aesthetics