The Shared Futures Series: Cardigan Street Takeover

City North Fest! The Shared Futures Series: Cardigan Street Takeover

11:00 - 18.00, Sat 5 Oct, Cardigan Street

What’s happening.

Take a speculative dip into our shared futures on Cardigan street. On Saturday 5 October RMIT University, Melbourne International Games Week and Melbourne Fringe Festival will intersect, to create a spectacular collision of creativity, imagination, and possibilities.

As part of this exciting crossover, RMIT will launch its City North Fest activation program transforming Cardigan Street into a hub of future-focused activities to explore futures that are diverse, sustainable, equitable and inspiring.

Find out about the latest speculative fiction at our pop-up library with on-the-spot loans, explore entrepreneurial ideas that might change the way we live tomorrow, or try zero waste food - the food of the Future!

Speculative Shorts

As part of the day, Environmental Film Festival Australia is partnering with RMIT Culture on the screening of short future-focused films, collectively imagining our shared futures in a day of future focused possibilities. 

The films include:

• Mauvaise Graine (2002) | In the not-to-distant future, fruit and vegetables have become an illicit yet precious commodity.

• Camping Armor (2024) | After 30 years in a coma, a man regains consciousness in August 2050. His family take him on a camping holiday to ease him into the new world.

• The Consultant (2024) | In the near future, each family is assigned an advisor responsible for making all their decisions, in order to balance the population and resource consumption and maintain order.

The program includes imaginings of the future from Türkiye, France and right here in Melbourne and will be accompanied by performances from Fringe artists The Hopefuls, GodZ, Visible Older Women and The Rubbish Collective, immersive digital experiences including Future Play Lab's interactive game exploring competing visions for the future, zero waste food, robots and the launch of Composite City - newly unearthed site-specific stories of Melbourne from the grid to the drift, via subterranean sewers and bohemian hangouts.