How can we address the Wicked Problem of AI Policy Design? Interested in tackling one of the most complex challenges of our time? Join us for a dynamic, hands-on workshop where we will explore how to collaboratively design better AI Policies that address pressing societal issues and emerging technology with creativity and impact!
The 2025 ADM+S Summer School will encompass interactive workshops, bootcamps, mentoring and social activity across three days, with our leading researchers and collaborators delivering a program encompassing methodological approaches, technical play, researcher and career development skills, and community building amongst our ADM+S cohorts.
We invite all ADM+S members to a hands-on workshop where you'll learn how to create impactful videos for your research using just your smartphone. In addition, we'll explore how AI tools can enhance your content by generating audio and video elements to augment your videos.
Do you like solvable problems? Us too! Work together with friends and colleagues on a set of logic puzzles at our locally hosted CS50x Puzzle Day event and compete against other teams across the world! This event is open to all ADM+S members.
Signal to Noise explores how artists work with, challenge, or complicate the relationship between signals and noise—disruptions, glitches or interference—in communication technologies and the messages they send. These technologies include the internet, telephones, radio and television, artificial intelligence, social media algorithms, and even the sounds of the natural world.
We welcome people to take the Birrarung Wilam Walk, which starts at Federation Square and leads to the Birrarung Wilam Aboriginal art installations. This walk is a chance to learn about the history of the Birrarung and the Aboriginal Peoples of the Kulin Nation, and is open to ADM+S Members based in Naarm/Melbourne.
Registrations are open for the ADM+S Thesis Boot Camp. Designed for students in mid-to-late candidature with a significant amount of data collected, the program aims to re-energise students’ writing progress and overcome hurdles slowing them down. This program will include focused discussion on approaches to writing, thesis structure, clarifying arguments, and strategies for writing quickly and writing well. Thesis Boot Camp participants will work through common challenges faced at this point in the journey, such as writer’s block and thesis fatigue, to achieve significant progress on their manuscript. The bootcamp will be delivered by Dr Liam Connell.
Melbourne, Online, Public Event
Every time you order a meal, obtain directions, query an AI chatbot, or access your child’s virtual classroom, you’re interacting with a multi-sided digital platform—and you trade in more than just time or money. You relinquish data. You perform unpaid labor. And in nearly every case, that data, along with the profits, leaves your community and flows to distant companies with no stake in your local economy. But what if the digital economy worked differently—what if it respected privacy, strengthened local economies, and ensured communities benefited from the value they help create?
No Harm Done continues its exploration of ethical, sustainable pathways for technology with its second installment focusing on the critical intersection of risk, technology, and climate. This event brings together three leading voices who are reshaping how we understand and respond to technological systems and their impacts on our communities and environment.
inSTEM is an annual conference for Centre of Excellence members, dedicated to advancing equitable practices for marginalised and underrepresented people in STEM, while also welcoming those committed to becoming better allies.
Once imagined as a decentralised utopia of free knowledge, DIY culture, and radical sharing, the internet has now evolved into a dystopia of crypto millionaires, fascist bots, doomscrolling, and algorithmic control. What we imagined as an infrastructure for openness, stability, and resilience has left us instead feeling profoundly unstable, polarised, and trapped inside a chaotic walled garden of nothing but noise. To borrow a phrase from media theorist Wendy Chun, our ground truths have all turned out to be deep fakes.
Join us as we tune in to the signals and noises that shape our understanding of science, technology, and the worlds around us.