Research Symposium: All That is Alive

On the occasion of the exhibition All That is Alive, UTS Gallery and the UTS Faculty of Design and Society present a multidisciplinary research symposium that brings together practitioners working with living systems and regenerative ecologies between Tuesday 16 September – Thursday 18 September 2025.

The two-day symposium, with a dedicated online program, will share insights into designing with biological processes, material kinships, and more-than-human ecologies. The symposium offers a forum for new ecological understandings and multispecies solidarity, inviting researchers, creative practitioners, and students to engage in planetary thinking and place-based practices.

Traversing the hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and subterranean worlds, the program explores the porous boundaries between earth systems and the diverse forms of life they sustain. A keynote address by acclaimed artist and researcher Associate Professor Ionat Zurr will open the symposium. Zurr, together with Oron Catts, established the Tissue Culture & Art Project in 1996, which led to the establishment of SymbioticA and the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia.

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Banner image: Tully Arnot and Chris Luscri, Silicon, 2024 (moving image still). Courtesy the artists.