Earthship Futures: Radical Design for Community and Life

Earthship Futures is a live conversation about undisciplined co-liberatory community design focusing on socio-ecological resilience.

Earthship Futures: Radical Design for Community and Life is a live conversation between Daryl Taylor and Oliver Vodeb, recorded as part of the Memefest Radical Design podcast series. The discussion focuses on Taylor’s Earthship project in Kinglake, Victoria—an experimental natural building initiative developed through international participatory workshops following the Black Saturday mega-firestorm, Australias worst natural disaster.

The session explores how community-led design and architecture can support socio-ecological restoration and regenerativity, post-disaster community recovery-discovery, and social and emotional resilience. Drawing on lived experience, the speakers will examine undisciplined and fringe design knowledge, co-liberatory climate-responsive design processes and practices, and the role of design in rebuilding both physical and social infrastructure and whole communities in disaster-vulnerable and -impacted regions. We are interested in outsider perspectives and feral (unwieldy, wild) futures!

The event takes the form of a moderated dialogue followed by audience Q&A + discussion. The conversation will be recorded and later released through the Radical Design Podcast, extending the discussion beyond the live session.

This is a FREE event but booking is required.

Location/time: RMIT City campus, Garden Building Level 6 on Thursday 21st May 2026 at 5.30pm-7.30pm.