Patrick Macasaet & Vei Tan

GAMING FUTURES: CIVIC WORLDS FOR CITY NORTH Launches Monday 18 May at gamingfutures.world A civic world you can enter. We are excited to launch 'Gaming Futures: Civic Worlds for City North' as part of Melbourne Design Week 2026 — Australia’s largest annual international design event. Presented by RMIT AUD Immersive Futures Lab @immersivefutures , the project is a downloadable architectural game world inviting audiences to explore speculative futures for RMIT’s City North precinct through gameplay, architecture and civic storytelling. Rather than simply looking at drawings, renders or static images, audiences can enter an explorable world shaped by architecture, ecology, data, climate futures, cultural narratives, Indigenous knowledges and community stories. Developed through the RMIT Master of Architecture design studio Continuums, Data, Being 2: RMIT City North in Semester 2, 2025, led by Vei Tan and Dr Patrick Macasaet with Cienan Muir (Yorta Yorta/Ngarrindjeri) of @Indiginerd . Developed with RMIT Master of Architecture students Hussain Asghar, Vanessa Batras, Callan Beaton, Ashlin Cam @ashlincam , Patrick Downs, Ruoxuan Jiang, Whitney Lay, Wen Kang Evan Leow, On Tung Leung, Andy Luu, Tevin McSweeney, Mandisa Sarker, Natthanan Surachartkumthornkul, Ryan Tan and Leonardo Teller. Produced in partnership with and supported by the RMIT City North Social Innovation Precinct. Melbourne Design Week takes place 14–24 May 2026 and is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, curated and delivered by NGV. @NGVMelbourne @Creative_Vic @rmitarchitecture @rmituniversity #MelbourneDesignWeek #MDW2026 #NGV #CreativeVic #architecture

The World Before: Part III Publics. Play. Engagement. 2014–2018. Early worldmaking experiments, before the language arrived. These worlds were never meant to stay on screens. They spilled outward as fantastical supermarkets, vending machines, claw machines, arcades. Into installations that invited touching, playing, wandering. They weren’t exclusive or rarefied. They were curious. Accessible. Joyful. Built for many publics; big and small, young and old, to step inside. Looking back, we can see it clearly now: immersive thinking before we called it immersive experience. #ImmersiveExperience #PublicInstallation #PlayfulArchitecture #ManyPublics #Worldmaking @immersivefutures @rmitarchitecture @mimaworkshop @superscale @mimawisms

The World Before: Part II Stories. Figures. Impossible Inhabitants. 2014–2021. Early worldmaking experiments, before the language arrived. If the atmospheres were portals, the characters were their pulse. Vei summoned beings who felt suspended between pop culture, architecture and speculative fiction. They didn’t just occupy space, they asked where they belonged. Virtual. Physical. Nowhere. Everywhere. These figures carried emotions architecture rarely admits. Playfulness, absurdity, tenderness, estrangement. They stretched the discipline toward narrative and imagination. What we now call “worldmaking” for us, was once a collection of sketches, avatars, characters, scenes, simulations and strange protagonists trying to find a home. #NarrativeArchitecture #SpeculativeFutures #CharacterDesign #PopCultureMeetsArchitecture #ImaginativeWorlds @immersivefutures @rmitarchitecture @mimaworkshop @superscale @mimawisms

The World Before: Part I Atmospheres. Compositions. Other Realities. 2014–2021. Early worldmaking experiments, before the language arrived. Before “worldmaking polemics,” there were MIMAWISMS. Conceived by Vei Tan (@mimaworkshop ), MIMAWISMS weren’t projects, they were sensibilities. A way of seeing sideways. A method of slipping between the generic everyday and the surreal. Through mixed media, animation, speculative imagery and oblique storytelling, Vei constructed atmospheric fragments that were strange yet familiar. Worlds charged with emotion and composition. They questioned the ordinary not through critique, but through mood, texture and narrative drift. These early experiments seeded what followed - Arcade, Supermarket, Wander Wonder, Future Naarm: First Light. #Worldmaking #MIMAWISMS #VeiTan #Atmospherics #SpeculativeDesign MixedMediaArt ArchitecturalImagination Worldbuilding CreativePractice BeforeTheTheory

MAJOR MAJOR 2025 Always an honour and a privilege to supervise Major Project students. This year, we collectively supervised 11 graduating Major Project students who explored a diverse landscape of ideas, curiosities and provocations. We wish you all the very best as you start fresh in the new year! CONGRATULATIONS: Lynn Gonsalves @lynn_89008 Joyce Zhuohui Huang @joycezier Rachit Joshi Adithya Lal @anti_deech Jackson Le @jacksonle_443 Maggie Leong @maggieieieong Ruitian Li Ee Min Lim @eemin.lim Jiaqi Sun Ivy Wei Li Tee @vyvytee Zengwei Wang @mashptw_ We can't wait to see what you create next! #architecture #design #architect #melbourne #graduate @rmitarchitecture @immersivefutures @rmituniversity @rmitalumni

BEHIND THE SCENES: 2025 RESEARCH ELECTIVES MASSIVE thank you to all students & alumni who joined us on these research adventures in 2025! We made new characters, atmospheres, worlds, tools, stories, models and so much wondrous mess. We’ll be sharing more outcomes (there's too many fun things to share) and exciting news from these research projects in 2026. Are you watching closely? GAMR UNIT 4: MAROU EDITION (S1 2025) This year marked the final chapter of GAMR Unit Series, 4 years since its first launch in 2022. We used the 2025 LAGI competition to simulate a gaming architectural practice, producing a collective competition entry for a regenerative work of landscape art. The project proposed resilient clean energy and water infrastructure for the village of Marou, Fiji. The elective focused on immersive modelling, real-time data, energy, and visualisation. Students explored a range of modelling and real-time tools in Unreal Engine, simulating feedback loops between architecture and the environment through immersive, real-time impacts and effects. IMMERSIVE FUTURES LAB: ELECTIVE STUDENT RESEARCHERS (S1 & S2 2025) Throughout the year, we invited select students to nurture and collaborate with in the RMIT AUD Immersive Futures Lab (IFL @immersivefutures ) on a series of industry-partnered projects. This included research and development with the Melbourne Recital Centre, the RMIT City North Social Innovation Precinct, and speculative investigations with the State Library of Victoria. GAMR UNIT 4 Team (images 10-12): Arif Alizada, Aydin Colakoglu, Carmen Beltrán Sangüesa, Chloe Goncalves, Dorothea Joy Mathiopoulos, Feng Yi, Josif Hristovski, Lorenzo Servedio, Nicholas Nolan, Pyeonghwa Park, Rachit Joshi, Shainesh Pillay, and Ze Yuan Chao IFL × MRC Team (images 14-20): Ansel Lin and Myron Mitchell @myron_mitchell_67 IFL x Civic Immersive Team (images 1-9): Ishika Thakur @ishik.arch , Dan Jerinel Bay @orijerinel , Kaitlyn Matthews @kait__mat , and Ashlin Cam @_ashhcam IFL x How to Build a World Team (image 13): Lynn Gonsalves @lynn_89008 Credit:11-D.Mathiopoulos #gaming #worldbuilding #architecture #unrealengine #design @unrealengine @rmitarchitecture

CONTINUUMS DATA BEING 2: RMIT CITY NORTH RMIT A&UD Immersive Futures Lab X Indiginerd As we close of the year, congratulations to the CDB2 Crew on finishing the RMIT Master of Architecture design studio, 'Continuums Data Being 2: RMIT City North' (S2-2025) led by Vei Tan and Patrick Macasaet with Cienan Muir @indiginerd . In partnership with the RMIT City North Social Innovation Precinct, this studio formed a triadic framework for architectural world-making where speculative narratives meet grounded realities into immersive propositions for the future of RMIT City North. This studio builds on our long-standing research in reimagining futures through contemporary gaming technologies, indigenous knowledges and futurisms, design speculation, narratives, atmospherics, worldmaking polemics, cultural engagement and popular culture. Congratulations to Mandisa Sarker, Ashlin Cam and Tevin McSweeney on receiving the Master of Architecture Award for Design Excellence and the Indigenous Engagement Award for their project 'Supra City North'! Thank you to all our collaborators and contributors this semester: Youjia Huang @h.you.jia , Kenny Lam @lamborkeny , Mitch Carter @mitch_untitled , Sumy Shin @dearsumy and Rachelle Yeoh @rachelleyeoh , as well as visitors and students who attended our experimental public events. Students: Hussain Asghar, Vanessa Batras, Callan Beaton, Ashlin Cam, Patrick Downs, Ruoxuan Jiang, Whitney Lay, Wen Kang Evan Leow, On Tung Leung, Andy Luu, Tevin McSweeney, Mandisa Sarker, Natthanan Surachartkumthornkul, Ryan Tan, Leonardo Teller. Images are of our Final Presentation Immersion Crits and the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Exhibition. More coming in 2026. Image Credits: 1.8.9.11 by Tope Adesina @tope_adesina #superscale #mimaworkshop #architecture #landscape #media @unrealengine @rmitarchitecture @rmituniversity

MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE AWARDS: BANGKOK We’re excited to share that two of our projects have been shortlisted for the MAB Awards at the Media Architecture Biennale 2025 (MAB25) in Bangkok. If you're around, please join us! DATE: 18/11-23/11 LOCATION: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre and Skywalk PROGRAM: / Transmedial Media Architecture Category: We Are Stardust 2025 Research and Workshop Leader: Vei Tan. Immersive Futures Lab-STARDUST Team Members: Adithya Lal @anti_deech , Anna Quach @annaa_qua , Jackson Le @jacksonle_443 , Keira McLaverty @keira.jane_ , Kevin Williams @kxaifer_art , Lynn Gonsalves @lynn_89008 , Rachelle Yeoh @rachelleyeoh , Vei Tan, Patrick Macasaet and Ezra Macasaet. See more: awards.mediaarchitecture.org/mab/project/508 Future Trends and Prototypes Category: Gaming Worlds as Prototypes for Speculative Architecture See more: awards.mediaarchitecture.org/mab/project/509 These works sit at the intersection of architecture, gaming, worldmaking, civic imagination, and pedagogy, exploring how immersive media, storytelling,  spatial and interactive technologies can open new ways of designing, seeing, sensing, and participating in the world around us. The MAB Awards celebrate leading global work at the intersection of architecture, media, interaction, and urban futures. The Media Architecture Biennale (MAB) is the world's premier event on media architecture, urban interaction design, and urban informatics. It brings together architects, artists and designers, leading thinkers on urban design, key industry and government representatives as well as community activists. See all shortlisted projects: /programs/?tab=awards #MAB25 #MAB25Bangkok #UrbanDialogue #MediaArchitecture #MediaArchitectureBiennale @mabiennale @immersivefutures @rmituniversity @rmitalumni #rmitarchitecture #superscale #rmit #rmituniversity #architecture #gaming #scifi #fiction #nonfiction #gamer #future #design #animation #worlds #anime #speculative #unrealengine #melbourne #bangkok @unrealengine

VICTORIA PREMIER'S DESIGN AWARDS. Digital Design Finalist. We’re beyond the moon to be finalists for the 2025 Victoria Premier's Design Awards (Digital Design category) with our project Future Naarm: First Light! It's been an adventure with this project. Born conceptually from the @fed.square Experience Lab program with 'Future Naarm: Mists and Shadows' as part of the Immersive Futures Group, it has since travelled the world. From Naarm to Berlin to Budapest and back again, we're proud of this lil'beauty that's sparked countless other worlds in our research and teaching. Established by the Victorian Government in 1996, the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards honour the state’s most outstanding design and architectural practitioners, and design-led businesses. Winners will be announced Wednesday, 12 November 2025 at The Edge, Fed Square, Naarm. Future Naarm: First Light Project Team. Immersive Futures Lab @immersivefutures : Vei Tan, Shuming Ivy Zhou @ivy.shuming , Zechen Huang @william__.__hzc , Patrick Macasaet. This project is a by-product of Future Naarm: Mists and Shadows, first developed as part of @fed.square Experience Lab program by Superscale (2022–23). Fun fact: The RMIT AUD Immersive Futures Lab was born out of the Immersive Futures Group founded by Vei Tan and Patrick Macasaet as Superscale in 2022. We later welcomed Youjia Huang @h.you.jia , Shuming Ivy Zhou @ivy.shuming , Zechen Huang @william__.__hzc and Cienan Muir @indignerd and whom we still share adventures with to this day. Congratulations to all finalists! See all finalists: https://premiersdesignawards.vic.gov.au/entries/2025 @rmitarchitecture @immersivefutures @rmituniversity @rmitalumni @architizer #rmitarchitecture #superscale #rmit #rmituniversity #architecture #gaming #scifi #fiction #nonfiction #gamer #future #design #animation @edgefestbudapest @manifest.io.berlin @robin.boyd.foundation #worlds #anime #speculative #unrealengine #melbourne @unrealengine @remixsummits @creative_vic

STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA: OPEN STUDIO EVENT Please join us this Tuesday! [text by SLV] The Great Reclamation - A Speculative Archive of Climate Futures presented by Library Fellows and co-founders of SUPERSCALE, Vei Tan and Dr Patrick Macasaet. Hear about their research into an interactive, open-world digital environment that reimagines the Library in a climate-altered future. DATE: Tuesday 28 October TIME: 12:30pm–1:30pm LOCATION: SLV Create Quarter BOOK VIA: https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/open-studio Step inside the creative heart of State Library Victoria with Open Studio. This new series offers a window into evolving work from the communities of SLV LAB, StartSpace and the Library’s Fellowship Program. Across four lunchtime sessions, you’ll hear directly from researchers, Library Fellows, artists, entrepreneurs and innovators as they share projects in progress—unfinished, experimental and full of possibility. Designed to be informal and interactive, these sessions give you the chance to see ideas taking shape, spark conversations and discover how the Library is a living site of creation, research and innovation. @library_vic @rmitarchitecture @rmituniversity @rmitalumni @unrealengine @immersivefutures @superscale #rmitarchitecture #superscale #rmit #rmituniversity #architecture #gaming #future #design#worlds #anime #speculative #unrealengine #melbourne #naarm

ARCHITIZER AWARDS 2025. VISIONARY OF THE YEAR Special Mention. We’re thrilled to share that the creative works, research, and community we’ve been developing through our practice SUPERSCALE and research lab, the RMIT AUD Immersive Futures Lab have received a Special Mention in the Visionary of the Year category at the 2025 Architizer Vision Awards. More via: http://bit.ly/4om2Uh5 We’re also excited to celebrate RMIT Master of Architecture students Ishika Thakur @ishik.arch and Dan Jerinel Bay @orijerinel , who received a Special Mention in the Vision for Culture category for their project 'Land of Clearest Blue & Magenta Fire Blooms', completed in the design studio 'Continuums, Data, Being: Mists and Shadows (S1, 2025)', led by Vei Tan and Patrick Macasaet in collaboration with Cienan Muir (@indiginerd ). Ishika and Jeri are also Student Researchers at the Immersive Futures Lab this semester (S2, 2025) who are investigating how gaming technologies can open up new modes of community engagement through public events, pop culture artefacts, interactive gaming and immersive environments. We extend our gratitude to the incredible communities we’ve worked with over the past five years; continuing to explore the potentials of gaming technologies and immersive media for the future of architectural design, pedagogy, and creative practice. The Architizer Vision Awards celebrate the radical ideas shaping the future of the built environment recognizing not just buildings, but the images, drawings, and speculative worlds that spark them into existence. The 2025 jury includes Steven Holl, Daniel Libeskind, Winka Dubbeldam, and others, celebrating the power of drawing as a vehicle for ideas, atmosphere, and imagination. See the full list: /2025/Vision @rmitarchitecture @immersivefutures @architizer @rmituniversity @rmitalumni #rmitarchitecture #superscale #rmit #rmituniversity #architecture #gaming #scifi #fiction #nonfiction #gamer #future #design #animation #worlds #anime #speculative #unrealengine #melbourne @unrealengine

GAMING FUTURES: Architectural Worlds for City North Big love to everyone who attended, engaged, played and shared their thoughts for the future of RMIT City North as part of our exploratory 'studio-to-street' pedagogical and engagement model. Everyone was invited to step into the future through student-designed architectural worlds from the RMIT Master of Architecture design studio ‘Continuums, Data, Being 2: RMIT City North’. Students presented speculative design proposals through immersive gaming environments and projections, inviting the public to explore and contribute to the future of City North. Gaming Futures is an evolving exchange between students, the public, industry, and the city itself. By blending architecture, gaming, projections, and conversation, the event opened the design studio to community participation, positioning City North as both a live testing ground for speculative futures and a shared space of civic imagination. Presented by RMIT University with the City of Melbourne @cityofmelbourne and many partners. RMIT Architecture Students: Hussain Asghar, Vanessa Batras, Callan Beaton, Ashlin Cam, Patrick Downs, Ruoxuan Jiang, Whitney Lay, Wen Kang Evan Leow, On Tung Leung, Andy Luu, Tevin McSweeney, Mandisa Sarker, Natthanan Surachartkumthornkul, Ryan Tan, Leonardo Teller. RMIT AUD Immersive Futures Lab: Ashlin Cam @_ashhcam , Dan Jerinel Bay @orijerinel , Kaitlyn Matthews @kait__mat , Ishika Thakur @ishik.arch . Catch our next event on Tuesday 28th October! #superscale #mimaworkshop #architecture #landscape #media #speculative @unrealengine #unrealengine #gaming #fiction #nonfiction #imagination #environment #virtual #game #climate #ecology #explore #openworld #melbourne #Indiginerd #FirstNations @rmitarchitecture #naarm @rmituniversity @indiginerd