An interactive art experience celebrating the fascinating relationship that is at the heart of individual identity between parent and child. How does your child see you? With our ever-growing desire to document each moment of our lives, children often become the reluctant subject of their parent’s camera. I See You Like This turns the camera around, allowing your child to view you as the subject through the lens of their [...]
What if walking through the city at night was safe for everybody? Experience the sensory overload of live cinematic techno with synchronised visuals as Simona Castricum shows you the borderline spaces of the liminal queer city. Look through a gender nonconforming lens, and be immersed in Simona’s percussive performance, exploring risk, euphoria, desolation and ultimately hope in urban space.
Congratulations on your death and welcome to LYMBO - the waiting room between life and your next adventure. An afterlife gathering with a difference, join digital design company Portable for a relaxed evening of drinks, nibbles, music and a deathly discussion. A twist on the concept of a death cafe, grab a drink and relax with others making the transition. Spend your remaining lucid moments chatting about your perceptions and [...]
Melbourne has long been ranked as one of the world’s most liveable cities - but faced with an ageing population and increased rates of mortality, can Melbourne also become the world’s most death-able city? Discover the meaning of a ‘good death’ and co-design the city’s deathly future in this interactive workshop with digital design firm Portable. Get down with the ghouls, ghosts, rituals and experiences of death – and create [...]
Ever wanted to try your hand at programming and get behind the screens of the internet? Now is your chance to jump start your journey into website coding. This 101 crash-coding course with General Assembly will get you started with HTML and CSS basics – in one high-impact evening at the Hub. Cover key coding terms and principles, learn about the coder community and see a demo of how to [...]
Join Waleed Aly in the Hub for a special live recording of The Minefield. In a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life.
Light up the night to make the city more playful, fun and safer for everyone. Global lighting design firm Arup, in collaboration with These Are The Projects We Do Together, lead a two-hour urban tour and workshop inviting you to learn about lighting design and reimagine our streets after dark. Curate and light up your evening with sound, projection and colour, while playing and interacting with lights in the city [...]
Madeleine Dore, founder and editor of Extraordinary Routines, delves into the lives of high achievers to find out how they tick. Take a seat with Madeleine in the beautiful Hub gardens for a series of hour-long interviews with respected thinkers who give us a window into their life outside of work, showing us what goes on behind the scenes. What does it mean to live a good life in this [...]
Delight your mind and marvel at the genius behind bionic eyes, piano improvisation and pneumonia patient care. Take a seat in the Hub for a morning of storytelling, performance and ideas with recent recipients of the Hugh Rogers Fellowship. Hear how our local innovators used a research trip to Boston to turn curiosity and hard work into impactful collaborative projects and business ventures. From Melbourne to Boston and back again, [...]
Ever loved a piece of music so much you wished you could get inside it? Lose yourself in a song – or several – as the Hub turns into a playful, interactive listening environment. Don a pair of headphones plugged into Terrain, a custom-built app, to navigate through the Hub and experience a 3D audio journey of discovery. Explore the individual instruments and textures that make up this rich [...]
