Collective is Critical

Collective is Critical

Collective is Critical (CIC) gathers transdisciplinary practitioners and researchers focused on commons-based and ecological understandings of the built environment.

The collective explores how design can support shared ways of living, working, and learning and how shared spatial design and affiliated creative practices can catalyse social and environmental change.

The network will enable:

  • Input and leadership on built environment projects focused on shared approaches to living, learning and working, as a catalyst for interconnected social and environmental change.
  • Development of strategies for growing collectives and collective knowledge that fosters change within spatial design practice, raises public awareness around shared world thinking and promotes these approaches in the education and practices of emerging and established spatial designers.
  • Creation of enduring working connections across often disparate, marginalised or minored practices and practitioners to produce through collectivisation, visbility, impact and proliferation.

Network leads

Dr Olivia Hamilton
School of Architecture and Urban Design

Dr Andy Miller
School of Architecture and Urban Design

Jen Lynch
School of Architecture and Urban Design

Network members

  • Helen Addison-Smith
  • Kyle Bush
  • James Carey
  • Millie Cattlin
  • Ying Lan Dann
  • Michael Dunbar
  • Alex Faustino
  • Corey Ferguson
  • Nicolas Guerra
  • Olivia Hamilton
  • Tarryn Handcock
  • Fiona Harrisson
  • Bridget Keane
  • Raph Kilpatrick
  • Alice Lewis
  • Jen Lynch
  • Andy Miller
  • Adele Wilkes

Membership and contacting CiC

Membership includes researchers from a range of universities and independent scholars and industry partners. We support ECRs and HDRs in their publications, especially in giving support to critical theory, methods of enquiry, and strategies for public impact. To get involved reach out to one of the leadership team.

Enabling Impact Platform (EIP) sponsorship

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CiC is supported by the following Enabling Impact Platforms:
Design and Creative Practice Applying an inventive, exploratory approach to real-world problems through interdisciplinary research, within and beyond design and creative practice.

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EIPs enable economic, environmental, societal, health and cultural impact with government, business and the community through research and innovation.

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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.

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