Join us from 6:00pm for refreshments to celebrate the opening of PRS Europe November 2025.

Formalities will commence at 6:30pm with an official welcome by Dr Marta Fernandez, Executive Director, RMIT Europe. The keynote panel will be opened by PRS Europe Chair Associate Professor Fleur Watson and moderated by Prof Sarah Teasley, RMIT School of Design.

This opening panel reflects broadly on the ideas and research presented in this edition of PRS Europe. In response, this panel conversation explores the agency of design practice research and expanded curatorial practices as critical drivers to advance collective transformation in times of ecological, political and social emergency. We are delighted to welcome the following speakers as part of the keynote panel:

Aric Chen, Director, Zaha Hadid Foundation and former General and Artistic Director at Nieuwe Instituut

Associate Professor Sam Spurr, University of Newcastle

Dr Brian Dixon, Head of Belfast School of Art, Ulster University

Dr Marina Otera Verzier, Architect and Researcher

Javier Arpa Fernández, PhD Candidate, RMIT PRS Europe & Curator, Public Programs, Delft University of Technology

Location: CUB P1, Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 38, c, Sant Martí, 08018 Barcelona, Spain

Image credit for Aric Chen: Marwan Magroun

Image credit for Dr Marina Otera Verzier: Boudewijin Bollmann.