Wayzfinding
Presented by RMIT School of Design Wayzfinding
DETAILS
Free, booking required
RMIT Garden Building, Building 10, Level 6, Room 89, entrance off Bowen Street
Bowen Street Plaza - RMIT University, Bowen Street, Melbourne VIC, Australia
DATES
Sat 23 May 1 – 5pm
Exhibition, no booking required
Sat 23 May 11am – 1pmBook now
Guided walk & design workshop, booking required
Sun 24 May 10am – 4pm
Exhibition, no booking required
Curated and designed by Suxuan (Luna) Tian and Xinyuan (Caesar) Li, who are current PhD candidates in the School of Design at RMIT University, and supported by Dr Noel Waite, Wayzfinding demonstrates a range of ways in which community design can facilitate relationships between people and place and support belonging in Melbourne/Naarm.
The exhibition translates collaborative ideas, documentation and design experiments to reflect how walking and play can become powerful methods for exploring belonging, connection and cultural understanding in urban life. It includes interactive and co-creative workshops that encourage participants to explore the city and extend their personal connections to the city’s bio-cultural diversity. By transforming collective experiences into design artefacts, Wayzfinding celebrates walking as both a social practice and a creative methodology. The exhibition invites visitors to reimagine Melbourne through movement, dialogue and participation.
Participants
Suxuan Tian (Luna)
Suxuan Tian (Luna) is a PhD candidate at RMIT University, specialising in social and innovation design. Her research explores decentralised and relational design approaches, examining how design can foster a sense of belonging, strengthen community connections and build resilience within complex social contexts. Suxuan began delving deeper into the design field in 2013. Her diverse cultural background and transnational experiences bring inclusive, critical and contextually grounded perspectives to her research and practice, contributing to the exploration of multicultural, socially engaged design.
Xinyuan (Caesar) Li
Xinyuan (Caesar) Li is a designer, researcher and artist born in China and based in Melbourne/Naarm. He is currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University. His practice examines typography as a critical and cultural form that reflects personal experience, identity, culture and history, and seeks to generate new narratives and interventions. With a focus on cross-cultural design, his work has been exhibited at Melbourne Design Week (2024–2025) and continues to explore how language and design intersect in contemporary society.
Noel Waite
Dr. Noel Waite is Senior Lecturer and Program Manager of the Master of Communication Design at RMIT University and the current Editor of the RMIT Design Archives Journal. He has worked with local government, museums and galleries, and third-sector organisations to develop and implement strategic plans, utilising scenario building and participatory design, and was a member of the Steering Committee that achieved UNESCO Creative City status for Ōtepoti | Dunedin, New Zealand, in 2014.