non/fictionLab

STREAT Creative Inkubator

#streatstories RMIT’s non/fictionLab and STREAT are partnering in a collaborative creative project that connects city dwellers to each other and to the wider community through writing and storytelling. STREAT is a social enterprise dedicated to stopping youth disadvantage and homelessness ‘one meal at a time’. The RMIT/STREAT Creative Inkubator or #STREATstories aims to foster a meaningful sense of…

Essaying the fabpod

An improvised experimental collaborative account of the uncertain cultural life and futures of the fabpod, as of August 21, 2014. The associated ibook (i.e. Apple only) is available for download. How might the affordances of the essay as a writing practice be brought to bear within a workshop framework of collaborative improvisation, in response to…

Francesca Rendle-Short is co-founder of the non/fictionLab research group in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She was co-director with David Carlin and Adrian Miles from 2011-2017. The non/fictionLab is a research centre for scholars, writers and creative practitioners. We experiment with contemporary realities through story, dialogue, poetics and partnerships. We foster…