Meat Market Pavilions

Your gestures, voice, movement and gaze can now control how you use and interact with a smart device - how do you feel about your phone reading your body language? Learn how artificial intelligence, mixed reality and the Internet of Things (IoT) will influence the way we interact with our devices through a series of talks with the University of Melbourne’s Computing and Information Systems team. The systems of the [...]

  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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Meditation is hailed as a sure-fire solution to everything from workplace stress to trauma recovery, a way to cope with mental illness to the key to emotional balance. In the age of the selfie, wellness sells. But what are the facts, and what’s just hype? Watch a preview of the new documentary My Year of Living Mindfully, and join the film’s director Shannon Harvey, along with a psychologist and neuroscientist, [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]