Leilah Taouk shares the early thinking behind a new PhD as part of the Swimmable Birrarung, asking: how do we measure a living, changing river in a way that honours its complexity? As we know, the act of measuring is not just technical; it is a way of knowing the river, of informing the decisions we make, and highlighting where interventions can have the greatest impact.

What type of research collaborations can we imagine that serve place and the knowledge flows that exist here? Yasmina Dhkissi invites us to think about how we can apply new models of collaborations to push forward the transitions we need to see.

Professor Lauren Rickards is a leading thinker, advisor and researcher on the social dimensions of climate change adaptation, and former Chair of Regen Melbourne's Research Advisory Council. Sarah Smith speaks to Lauren about Australia’s rollercoaster climate change adaptation journey and why now is the time for radical and urgent collaboration.

Retno Palupi reflects on their time with the Regen Melbourne team as an intern exploring what prevents us from swimming in the Birrarung today and the ways we can think differently about stormwater.

Regen Melbourne’s Collaboration and Investment Lead Joshua Devine shares how his experience in the world of impact finance – from attending COP29 to time spent in the Indigenous business sector – helps inform his work developing new approaches to systemic investment.

What could Greater Melbourne look like in 2055 if Regen Melbourne and Infrastructure Victoria put our heads together? Our Director of Systems Lab Alison Whitten slips on her Doughnut-shaped glasses to submit a formal response to ‘Infrastructure Victoria’s Draft 30-year Strategy’. 

Over the course of 2025, Regen Melbourne will publish a series of reports that summarise our initial work in New Urban Governance. In the first of this series, RM’s Collaboration and Investment Lead, Joshua Devine, reports back on our experiments with the participatory grant-making app Hum.

What are we learning from the likes of Amsterdam and Cornwall about how to put Doughnut Economics and the City Portrait into practice here in Melbourne? Regen Melbourne City Portrait Analyst Lokesh Sangarya reflects on how international practice continues to inform and evolve the Melbourne Doughnut.