Join us for the Australian Posthuman Summer Laboratory 2025 as we think, walk, make, talk with N’arweet Professor Carolyn Briggs and Professor Rosi Braidotti and engage in regenerative futures required for a liveable future.

Industry workshops are underway, developing a cutting edge program for the 2025 Lab.

EOIs have now closed. Please get in touch at posthumansummerlab@gmail.com with any questions.

The climate crisis urgently compels us to address the interdependence of human, non-human, and more-than-human entities, fostering a profound shift in our ethical and technological paradigms challenging longstanding patterns of anthropocentrism. In cities, it is even more challenging to reconsider our role in the intricate web of life, but it is also more urgent. Posthumanism is a way into a future where all entities collaborate for planetary resilience and flourishing. Planetary Civics transcend traditional boundaries, forging a holistic alliance to navigate and mitigate the challenges that transcend individual species and extend to the broader biosphere.  

Building on posthuman methods developed in the inaugural Lab in 2024, we are expanding our work with Professor Rosi Braidotti, RMIT University via a second interdisciplinary laboratory exploring intersections between posthuman methods and First Peoples knowledges in consultation with Boonwurrung elder N’arweet Professor Carolyn Briggs AM.  

N’arweet Professor Carolyn Briggs AM PhD is a descendant of the First Peoples of Melbourne, the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung. Over the past fourty years, Carolyn has worked with diverse communities on Indigenous language restoration, and advocacy for Indigenous culture and heritage. She is currently remapping Naarm as part of RMIT future play lab’s ARC Linkage Project Play about Place. 

Professor Rosi Braidotti is a feminist Continental philosopher and Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Throughout her work, Braidotti asserts and demonstrates the importance of combining theoretical concerns with a serious commitment to producing socially and politically relevant scholarship that contributes to making a difference in the world. 

Over the eight-day lab in February 2025, participants will develop collaborative, place-based projects expanding posthuman methods through urban action and a second connected book publication. Each of the three labs generates a book publication, this trilogy will map a collective posthuman atlas of creative methods.  

We will travel across numerous sites across Naarm Melbourne to explore, enact, understand, experience regenerative practices in situ. 

The lab is led by Dr Fiona Hillary (RMIT School of Art) and Dr Troy Innocent (RMIT School of Design / future play lab.) in collaboration with a team of industry partners, artists, designers, writers working with posthuman methods in public spaces across RMIT’s College of Design and Social Context. This is a Planetary Civics Initiative. 

We have 50 positions available for this Laboratory that will focus on thinking through a posthuman lens with regenerative and restorative practices in the current climate crisis. The Laboratory will articulate into a book with participants invited to submit an abstract for the next posthuman atlas at the end of the Lab. 

The fee for the Laboratory is $1175 per person. Submitting an EOI is a commitment to paying this fee by Friday 10 January 2025. 

Please note the three nights of accommodation at Balam Balam Place, Brunswick are indoors but camp style. You will be required to wear appropriate clothing for camping and bring a sleeping bag/pillow. 

First Nations Scholarships 

Three scholarships are available for First Nations applicants. These cover the registration fee but do not include provision for any travel or other incidental costs. 

Image: Australian Posthuman Summer Lab 2024. Photograph by Troy Innocent