THE KNOWLEDGE
WE NEED FOR
SYSTEMS CHANGE

Melbourne is home to global experts addressing many of our key challenges.
The rM lab brings them together, in service to our city.

The RM Lab works collaboratively to harness and connect research expertise across Greater Melbourne. Together, we can accelerate the translation of knowledge into action, and action into knowledge. Our research includes three core streams:

Measuring What Matters
Developing a holistic measure of progress for Greater Melbourne

Action Research
Bringing together existing knowledge and surfacing new research questions to inform our projects

Systems Change Explorations
Thematic research projects investigating the big shifts we need to regenerate our city

The RM Lab is GUIDED by our
RM LAB Research Council with representatives from:

We value the need for wisdom and action, and the balance between being and doing

Background materials & resources

Regen Gazette
Weaving knowledge and action: Integrating research and projects in 2024
Weaving knowledge and action: Integrating research and projects in 2024
the city portrait - an epic collaboration
the city portrait - an epic collaboration
Launching Melbourne’s City Portrait on Global Doughnut Day
Launching Melbourne’s City Portrait on Global Doughnut Day
Laying the Social Foundation
Laying the Social Foundation
The RM Lab: a research hub for systems change in Melbourne
The RM Lab: a research hub for systems change in Melbourne
Measuring what Matters: A City Portrait for Melbourne
Measuring what Matters: A City Portrait for Melbourne
Report Released: Towards a Regenerative Melbourne
Report Released: Towards a Regenerative Melbourne

"Regen Melbourne is the sort of initiative that those who study climate change and other crises dream about – a bottom up but razor sharp effort to take stock, draw breath and turn the ship around."

Professor Lauren Rickards, Chair RM Lab