PRS Asia: Opening Event & Keynote Panel Discussion

Join us from 5:45pm for drinks and finger food to celebrate the opening of PRS Asia September 2025!

The formalities will commence at 6pm with a welcome from PRS Asia Co-Chairs, Dr Michelle Aung Thin, RMIT School of Media & Communication, RMIT Australia, & Dr Andrew Stiff, School of Communication & Design, RMIT Vietnam.

This will then be followed by keynote panel from distinguished guests in conversation with an Interlocutor.

At this PRS Asia, our keynote panel will address the theme of ‘community’. Community of Practice is a focus of the PRS, and we are interested in how ideas associated with community shape our understanding of creative methodologies. Community can suggest engagement and connection but also elision, enforced silence and non-belonging. What does community mean across different creative disciplines? How does it shape knowledge? How does it scope and scale our work?

Our keynote panellists are:

Associate Professor Riet Eeckhout (M.Arch, MA, PhD) holds a post-doctoral research position at the faculty of architecture of KU Leuven (Belgium).  As a researcher she exhibits, publishes and writes about her drawings from within the discipline of architecture.  She is a guest speaker and teacher at a number of international universities and conferences where she talks on her research in relation to the practice.  Her drawings have been exhibited internationally including at the Venice Biennale (IT), La Gallerie d’Architecture in Paris (FR), Tchoban Foundation, Museum of architectural drawing Berlin, Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin (G), and Art Omi : Architecture, Ghent, New York (USA). In 2014, she concluded a PhD titled ‘Process Drawing’ under Dr. Martyn Hook within the invitational Practice based Research program at RMIT University (Melbourne), led by Leon van Schaik.

Associate Professor Luz María Sánchez Cardona is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher and scholar. She holds a PhD in Art by the Universitat Autoònoma de Barcelona. Sánchez's transdisciplinary work operates in the political sphere, exploring violence and power relations through sound and language. Sánchez intertwines her practice with her explorations of Samuel Becket's use of technologized language.  Sánchez received two consecutive Honorary Mentions at Prix Ars Electronica in 2021 and 2020 and was awarded a 3-year grant from the Mexican Culture Ministry. In 2014 she received the Frontiers Biennial 1st Prize and in 2015 she was granted the Climate Change Artist Commission by the Land Heritage Institute (Texas). In 2006, Sánchez was selected by Yuko Hasegawa to be Artpace International Artist-in-Residency (San Antonio).

Designer and artist Cécile Ngọc Sương Perdu is an interdisciplinary designer that works at the intersection of printmaking - editorial design - culture - architecture, based between Cần Thơ and Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam. Trained in Architecture at the University of Edinburgh, Cécile worked primarily in designing social and community projects, and upon returning to Vietnam has set up their own Risograph studio in the Mekong Delta called Lộn Xộn. Currently, Cécile teaches Design while also directing the creative and research vision of Lộn Xộn to collaborate with local artists to print and publish prints, magazines, and zines about life and culture of this often overlooked region of Vietnam.

Nina Next Space

Room: Next 600

180/1 Nguyễn Tất Thành, Phường 13, Quận 4, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam.

Please note this event will be delivered in English.