Adapter is the first of a series of localised but globally connected nodes. Our charter includes community-driven, cross-sectoral research to provide tangible, creative solutions. We foster improved decision-making and integrated policies, including programs that support engagement and collaboration between government, industry and academic researchers globally.

‘Adapters’—our colleagues around the world—will engage in pragmatic, real-time and rigorous enquiry into challenges and opportunities facing humanity. They will explore the full spectrum of these time-scale challenges, from dealing with immediate disaster response and recovery, through to planning and governance for future resilience in the face of unprecedented climate change, population dynamics and resource pressures.

Adapter’s work will involve spatially-informed communication, collaboration and visualisation. People using our spaces will generate, harvest, interpret and share data with each other as though they were physically side by side. And we invite you to be part of our journey—to imagine and create a preferred future.

Adapter is already involved in—and engaged with—projects and initiatives, including:

Enhancing problem solving between locations and cultures - Hot off the Press!

Visit our rooms here! We have just finished building our first two prototype DENs  at the Nathan and Gold Coast Campuses. These remote immersive collaboration rooms allow individuals to work together between different locations, sharing data and problem solving as if they are in the same room. Adapter’s goal is to extend these connections nationally and internationally.

Commonwealth Games Gold Coast - April 2018

Adapter is focusing on ways to engage both staff and the spectators as part of Griffith University's partnership in the Commonwealth Games around issues of sustainability and productivity for global health and well being, through 'Pop-Up Questioning'. As part of the team, third year engineering students and interns will be involved, stay tuned for updates.

Digital Earth Summit 2018 - April 2018

We will be presenting our research agenda and DENs progress at the 2018 7th Digital Earth Summit in Morocco. This will include engaging with our chapter colleagues to discuss the next steps for global projects that 'don't cost the earth' in travel emissions, harnessing the power of the DENs to facilitate remote immersive collaboration.