Category: News

This week is our On Country event at Wurdi Youang. We are now looking at the weather and hoping for comfortable weather in Poorneet.

This week is Australian Wildlife week – see later for details (and online webinar to join). It is also the week before our next On Country event. Please see the details in our newsletter below. All members and HDR colleagues are welcome and allied members can let us know if you are around and want to come too. If you do not have a calendar invite please let us know in the CRF inbox regeneratingfutures@deakin.edu.au.

We move into the final week of trimester 2, and spring or Poorneet, tadpole season (see more about the CSIRO research into Indigenous seasons calendars here – none completed for Victoria… yet!).
See Inspiring Australia – Victoria below- The Seven Seasons of the Kulin People, created by Greenaway Architects for Nagara Place (RMIT University).

This week Peta writes from WA where she is visiting her family while Jo is in the throes of leading a theatre production. Life is full, and there are plenty of opportunities to fill your research cup in the CRF news below.

Today (9th September) is World EV day. Do a little thought experiment with your colleagues/family, discuss what might our lives be like now – if the electric car had been developed instead of the combustion engine (yes – electric cars were around in the beginning). Read more in the newsletter attached.

One of the best things we can do as a centre, we believe, is to build capacity around our two key imperatives: addressing Anthropocene challenges and decolonising knowledges and practices. We will soon be evaluated for our two years of operation. How do you think we have performed? Do you have stories of ways the CRF has enabled your research? If you do – please share to our centre inbox.

We concluded a big week for CRF members last week with the Decolonising Knowledges and Practices Reading Group. This group meets again on Monday 2nd September. Details will be out soon regarding the reading and provocation. We also hosted a double up with two great Futures Forums about the Metacrisis – with colleagues Ruth Irwin and Thomas Everth from Aotearoa New Zealand – the recordings of both are included below.

We are now in a period of mild weather which is a reminder that we are in Guling, Orchid Season (August) according to the Eastern Kulin Seasonal Calendar when the cold weather is coming to an end.  Centre members enjoyed warmer weather on the shores of Nairm on Wednesday.  What a day… on Country #3 was an excellent mid week cleansing, recharging, and inspiring collaborative event.

This week is National Science Week! See below for events in Victoria and with Deakin. 

The CRF signature events – our On Country Days – are now planned, and promise to be rewarding days for building our research community. Please consider if you can make it and use the calendar invites to register.