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From cutting-edge research to grassroots community-led initiatives, the 2025 Showcase championed changemakers across UNSW’s network.

Visitors got to meet the experts at the forefront of world-changing discoveries and connect with innovators through demonstrations, talks and interactive sessions to understand how their work is creating a more sustainable, equitable future.

During September 2025, Dr Rebecca Green (UNSW Art & Design) and Sally Giblin (Be The Future and UNSW ADA alumna) ran six workshops called ⚡️The Future is Electric! at Toongabbie Public School, where Year 5/6 students explored renewable-energy futures through hands-on imaginative play, and a little speculative design magic!

How to Play in Slow Time is a podcast where artists pull back the curtain on their creative practices and share how they listen, play, embody, imagine, model, and collaborate towards discovering something new. Each episode interviews an Australian-based artist and unpacks their process of making-from the first seed of an idea, to its final form and audience reception. 

This podcast was supported by the School of Arts and Media, UNSW.

As anti-diversity rhetoric gains traction globally, its echoes in Australia pose a growing threat to LGBTQIA+ communities. But history reminds us: collective strength can’t be silenced.

Listen Professor Christy Newman discuss why solidarity, allyship and speaking out are more crucial than ever.

Professor Philip Oldfield, Head of School at UNSW Built Environment, explains how a lack of affordable housing near major employment hubs is impacting the people who work there, and how businesses can build better workplaces.

From activists to astronauts, more women are added to Celebrating UNSW Women on Campus’s Women’s Trail.