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Two events I attended recently, on the surface, have almost nothing in common — one was an exhibition opening at the NGV, the other a talk about the slow rot of online platforms.

Augustine, writing to God in Book XI of the Confessions, admits he doesn’t know what time is.

Thank you to all the speakers who survived the onslaught of “walk the plank”, “pirate knowledge” and “arrrrrr” at the PirateDRS event.

Short intro In conversation Excavating Bias New Jim Code https://calculatingempires.net/?

Data Otherwise: More-than-Human Data Practices at DRS 2026 What if the problem with data isn’t its volume, its accuracy, or its resolution, but what it forecloses?

I’ve been fortunate to be at DRS 2026 in Edinburgh this week, about to catch a train and then plane home back to Melbourne.

Friday 22nd, 2026 at Monash, design researchers presented artifacts from their practice—Jon McCormack’s language device with personality sliders, Bec Nally and Yaw Ofosu-Asare’s Mars-based pedagogy, Scott Mayson’s prosthetic casting system, and work on the

Last week at The Capitol Melbourne, we launched the RMIT Regenerative Futures Institute.

Last week brought two events exploring regenerative futures from very different angles.

The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce), RMIT’s Regenerative Futures Institute and Planetary Civics Inquiry are bringing together some thinkers to launch the RMIT × RSA Living University Paper, a provocation about the role of higher