@ 2025
(14) designers
(5) countries
(90) days
@ 2025
(14) designers
(5) countries
(90) days
ECHOES OF
ELSEWHERE
@2025
(14) designers
(5) countries
(90) days
ABOUT ECHOES OF ELSEWHERE
This exhibition explores how designers translate fragments of culture, community, and personal identity into visual and material form. Through sculptural, video, publishing and participatory works, the exhibition celebrates the multi-identity, resilience, adaptation, and cultural hybridity that shapes the city’s design landscape.
This exhibition explores how designers translate fragments of culture, community, and personal identity into visual and material form. Through sculptural, video, publishing and participatory works, the exhibition celebrates the multi-identity, resilience, adaptation, and cultural hybridity that shapes the city’s design landscape.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
TIME
10 - 11.OCT
12PM - 7.30PM
TIME
10 - 11.OCT
12PM - 7.30PM
Echoes of Elsewhere has been curated, designed, and developed by students from RMIT's Masters of Communication Design.
Echoes of Elsewhere has been curated, designed, and developed by students from RMIT's Masters of Communication Design.
SHOWCASES
Exploring food, fashion, dwelling, storytelling, and ancestral artifacts, the exhibition documents and celebrates the multiplicity of being in Naarm/ Melbourne
OUR THEMES
OUR THEMES
Exploring food, fashion, dwelling, storytelling, and ancestral artifacts, the exhibition documents and celebrates the multiplicity of being in Naarm/ Melbourne
OUR THEMES
Exploring food, fashion, dwelling, storytelling, and ancestral artifacts, the exhibition documents and celebrates the multiplicity of being in Naarm/ Melbourne
(01)
HOUSE AND HOME
(01)
This section explores how ideas of home are shaped through culture, memory, and migration. Rather than fixing a single definition, it foregrounds multiple voices, highlighting both shared threads and contradictions. Through interactive making, visual storytelling, and printed reflection, the work offers an intimate portrayal of belonging, inviting audiences to reflect on their own sense of home alongside those of others.
(02)
WHERE THE TABLE TURNS
(01)
Food carries memory, belonging, and creativity, becoming a key site where traditions meet change. In Melbourne, migrant cuisines, especially Chinese, are reshaped through new ingredients, menus, and spaces. These everyday transformations reveal food as both an archive of lived histories and a living form of design, negotiating identity and belonging across the city.
(03)
SIGNS OF BELONGINGS
(01)
This section explores how migrant communities in Naarm use visual language through shopfronts, religious signage, community posters, and vernacular typography to communicate identity, invite connection, and claim belonging in unfamiliar urban spaces. By incorporating visual–tactile mapping, it highlights where communities thrive and grow, framing communication design as lived practice emerging from streets, homes, and everyday life.
(04)
HYBRID AESTHETICS
(01)
These installations explore how migrant designers in Naarm draw upon their cultural heritage while engaging with contemporary Australian design practice. Through fashion, communication design, and interior design, their works open a dialogue that connects tradition with modern expression, offering audiences insight into the diverse voices shaping design in Australia today.
(01)
HOUSE AND HOME
(01)
This section explores how ideas of home are shaped through culture, memory, and migration. Rather than fixing a single definition, it foregrounds multiple voices, highlighting both shared threads and contradictions. Through interactive making, visual storytelling, and printed reflection, the work offers an intimate portrayal of belonging, inviting audiences to reflect on their own sense of home alongside those of others.
(02)
WHERE THE TABLE TURNS
(01)
Food carries memory, belonging, and creativity, becoming a key site where traditions meet change. In Melbourne, migrant cuisines, especially Chinese, are reshaped through new ingredients, menus, and spaces. These everyday transformations reveal food as both an archive of lived histories and a living form of design, negotiating identity and belonging across the city.
(03)
SIGNS OF BELONGINGS
(01)
This section explores how migrant communities in Naarm use visual language through shopfronts, religious signage, community posters, and vernacular typography to communicate identity, invite connection, and claim belonging in unfamiliar urban spaces. By incorporating visual–tactile mapping, it highlights where communities thrive and grow, framing communication design as lived practice emerging from streets, homes, and everyday life.
(04)
HYBRID AESTHETICS
(01)
These installations explore how migrant designers in Naarm draw upon their cultural heritage while engaging with contemporary Australian design practice. Through fashion, communication design, and interior design, their works open a dialogue that connects tradition with modern expression, offering audiences insight into the diverse voices shaping design in Australia today.
(01)
HOUSE AND HOME
This section explores how ideas of home are shaped through culture, memory, and migration. Rather than fixing a single definition, it foregrounds multiple voices, highlighting both shared threads and contradictions. Through interactive making, visual storytelling, and printed reflection, the work offers an intimate portrayal of belonging, inviting audiences to reflect on their own sense of home alongside those of others.
(02)
WHERE THE TABLE TURNS
Food carries memory, belonging, and creativity, becoming a key site where traditions meet change. In Melbourne, migrant cuisines, especially Chinese, are reshaped through new ingredients, menus, and spaces. These everyday transformations reveal food as both an archive of lived histories and a living form of design, negotiating identity and belonging across the city.
(03)
SIGNS OF BELONGINGS
This section explores how migrant communities in Naarm use visual language through shopfronts, religious signage, community posters, and vernacular typography to communicate identity, invite connection, and claim belonging in unfamiliar urban spaces. By incorporating visual–tactile mapping, it highlights where communities thrive and grow, framing communication design as lived practice emerging from streets, homes, and everyday life.
(04)
HYBRID AESTHETICS
These installations explore how migrant designers in Naarm draw upon their cultural heritage while engaging with contemporary Australian design practice. Through fashion, communication design, and interior design, their works open a dialogue that connects tradition with modern expression, offering audiences insight into the diverse voices shaping design in Australia today.
गूँज
गूँज
(14) designers (5) countries
Master of Communication Design students acknowledge the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung people of the eastern Kulin Nation, on whose unceded lands we curate this exhibition. We respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. Our curatorial team also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we host this exhibition.
Curating and Exhibiting Communication Design
© 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Master of Communication Design students acknowledge the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung people of the eastern Kulin Nation, on whose unceded lands we curate this exhibition. We respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. Our curatorial team also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we host this exhibition.
Curating and Exhibiting Communication Design
© 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Master of Communication Design students acknowledge the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung people of the eastern Kulin Nation, on whose unceded lands we curate this exhibition. We respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. Our curatorial team also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we host this exhibition.
Curating and Exhibiting Communication Design
© 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED