Peri-urban areas form belts of non-urban land fringing metropolitan centres. They usually contain important natural resources, remnant biodiversity and significant landscapes. These areas are under increasing worldwide threat from development and overuse. RMIT Peri-urban region research examines characteristics of peri-urban regions and impacts of settlement patterns and other drivers of change on land use, vegetation...

What do we know about the way families interact and socialise with each other in the 'postmodern' information age? Despite all the valuable research in the field, it has been argued that we still know very little about the context of ICTs use, at home, at work, or elsewhere. Media has become part of the...

With the support of the Telstra Foundation and the Australian Research Council, RMIT researchers investigated the role and significance of Indigenous cultural festivals in wellbeing outcomes for Indigenous communities and their young people. They found that festivals really do matter to communities; from a proliferation of very small events celebrating local community life, to complex...

As an ‘action research’ project over a period of more than three years, the Generations Project has been remarkably successful in finding out what it takes to ensure that community art practices can enrich the practice of local government in Australia. This comes at a time when the building of resilient and inclusive local communities...

The Transdisciplinary Research and Design Symposium aimed to take stock of the state of transdisciplinary practice across the various domains in which it appears most advanced, seeking to distil lessons and a working set of practice principles. The symposium ran for a day and a half. It involved a series of provocations and the active...