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 Interlocutor, A/Prof Stephen Gaunson.

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? What does it enable for our research?

Our keynote panellists are:

Associate Professor Riet Eeckhout is an architect and associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research in Drawing Architecture investigates the critical and generative potential of drawings beyond mere representation within architectural practice. She exhibits, lectures, and publishes on drawing as a mode of architectural research. Her drawings have been shown internationally, including at the Venice Biennale; La Galerie d’Architecture, Paris; the Tchoban Foundation and the Museum of Architectural Drawing, Berlin; the Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin; the Design Centre UQAM, Montreal; Art Omi: Architecture and Gallery A83 in New York. 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 and researcher whose work in sound and expanded media explores the intersections of language, violence, and power. Her practice has been presented internationally at Ars Electronica, ZKM Karlsruhe, Momentum Biennial, WRO Biennial, MUAC, and Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, with her first retrospective in 2024 in Poznań, curated by Ryszard W. Kluszczyński. Sánchez Cardona has a strong publication record, including monographs, book chapters, and journal articles on Samuel Beckett’s electronic work, sound practices, and transdisciplinary artistic research, and has advanced conceptual tools within the framework of feral auralities. Sánchez regards research and pedagogy as central to sustaining a transgenerational approach to practice, pursued through institutions such as the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Łódź University, Aalborg University, and the Bergen Art Academy, and through networks including Red Ecología Acústica México, Art Sciences Humanities Citizenship, and Beckett-Mexico.

After earning her MA in Architecture from the University of Edinburgh, Cécile Ngọc Sương Perdu worked as an architectural designer in the U.K. on participatory and community-oriented projects, focusing on social housing and public interventions in Scotland. From 2017, she blended spatial design and print media in Edinburgh, where she co-founded Crumble—a risograph-printed architectural magazine that showcases diverse perspectives on the social, political, and environmental impact of the built environment. Upon returning to Vietnam in 2020, Cécile continued her risograph publishing work in a local context. She now runs a design and riso studio in Cần Thơ, the heart of the Mekong Delta, dedicated to researching and archiving regional life, culture, and design. Through her studio, she creates prints and publications that merge architecture, editorial design, and illustration—all informed by field research with diverse local communities in the Mekong Delta.

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.