Gaming Futures: Civic Worlds for City North
Presented by RMIT AUD Immersive Futures Lab
DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Level 1 Ramp
Building 100 (Design Hub) - RMIT University, Victoria Street, Carlton VIC, Australia
DATES
Fri 22 May 10am – 9pm
Gaming Futures: Civic Worlds for City North is a game-based architectural installation and participatory experience. Visitors enter a custom-designed gaming environment of RMIT’s City North precinct, where they explore speculative worlds developed with RMIT Master of Architecture students, researchers and collaborators.
Through interactive gameplay, participants navigate future civic infrastructures and architectures that respond to ecological systems, cultural narratives, data, climate scenarios, Indigenous knowledges and community stories.
The experience positions design as a shared dialogue, inviting visitors to inhabit and contribute to these ideas and worlds via simple controller-based interactions.
Suitable for all ages, the installation blends education, research and public play to explore urban futures.
This virtual environment was produced from the RMIT Master of Architecture Design Studio ‘Continuums Data Being 2: RMIT City North’ (Semester 2, 2025), led by Vei Tan (RMIT) and Dr Patrick Macasaet (RMIT) with Cienan Muir (Yorta Yorta/Ngarrindjeri) and RMIT Master of Architecture students, in partnership with the RMIT City North Social Innovation Precinct.
Participants
RMIT AUD Immersive Futures Lab
The RMIT Architecture & Urban Design Immersive Futures Lab explores the potential of gaming technologies and immersive media for architectural design.Its interdisciplinary approach draws on gaming environments and technologies to develop new immersive and real-time design processes, visualisations, applications and pedagogies.The Lab posits that understanding possible 'now, near and future' visions and realities requires innovative hybrid methods for making, curating, engaging and imagining our cultural and built environments.