Reports
Quantum Future Workforce
In this report detailing the anticipated Quantum Future Workforce, we define Australia’s quantum journey to 2050 for a quantum ready workforce by identifying skills, capabilities and opportunities that are key to the development of the sector.
Scenarios for future living: Emerging technology innovation and development
The latest report from the Scenarios for Future Living team has uncovered that emerging technologies are disconnected from our future climate-constrained energy reality, with increased vulnerability in remote and ageing communities who may rely more on energy.
City Futures report
In this report we identify and demonstrate: a set of 5 trends which describe the forces that are shaping city futures; and 14 claims that describe how cities are likely to respond to those trends. Together these trends and claims constitute dominant visions for future Australian cities, and are derived from a review of 64 industry reports, policy, planning, and strategy documents.
Australian Construction Industry Futures
This report examines how dominant industry, consultancy, government and policy reports present the future of the Australian construction industry, and identifies and synthesises the key emerging trends that their visions claim are shaping the sector’s medium- to long-term trajectories from 2030 to 2050. The findings are drawn from a qualitative content analysis of 47 reports published between 2014 and 2025.
Home Futures report- a review of visions, people and values associated with future home life in Australia
This report presents the findings of a review of visions, people and values associated with future home life in Australia, as represented in existing reports from industry, policy, government, academia and independent think tanks. The report has been developed to generate new knowledge and awareness about how dominant visions of future home life are perceived, cohere and diverge across Australian organisations. These visions already are or are likely to inform advocacy, planning and policy across Australia.
Co-designing a Living Evidence Architecture
This report presents findings from the Living Evidence Architecture (LEA) project, a collaborative initiative between the Australian Living Evidence Collaboration, Monash University (Australia and Indonesia), WHO regional and headquarters offices, and partners across South-East Asia and the Western Pacific.
Construction work futures: automation, robotics and work futures in the Australian construction industry
‘Construction work futures: automation, robotics and work futures in the Australian construction industry’ is a report that is part of the AUTOWORK project, a project investigating the future of work across the construction, health and consumer sectors. The report investigates how automation and robotics are playing a growing role in the construction industry and how this is likely to evolve in the future.
Future Home Demand report
The Future Home Demand Report presents the findings of a multi-staged research project with 36 households across the three distribution businesses: CitiPower, United Energy and Powercor, as well as a survey with 1,325 responses from their customers.
City Sensing Data Futures
City Sensing Data Futures reports on a collaboration between the City of Melbourne and Monash University’s Emerging Technologies Research Lab. It outlines and demonstrates an ethics-based approach to the capture and use of real-time city data in public spaces, which is inclusive and respects the core organisational and public values of: trust, privacy, transparency, open communication and care.
Foresights for Future Living
Foresights for Future Living, the most recent report from the Digital Energy Futures project, explores how people — their values, routines, and response to emerging tech — are at the centre of key questions and challenges faced by energy futures and forecasting.
Digital Energy Futures: Future home life
The Future Home Life report presents changing digital lifestyle trends and their potential impact on household electricity demand in the near (2025-30) and medium-far (2030-50) future.
Digital Energy Futures - Review of industry trends, visions and scenarios for the home
Digital Energy Futures (DEF) is a landmark project, drawing on future-focused social science research, to better understand how emerging technologies are shaping the way people live – and ultimately, the future energy needs of Australian households.
Experiences and perspectives of urban sensing in melbourne
This report was conducted in collaboration with City of Melbourne and invetsigated how emerging technologies and data were perceived by the public across key sites in the City of Melbourne precinct.
Smart Homes for Seniors: Intelligent Home Solutions for Independent Living Final research evaluation report
For many Australians across all generations, our ‘new normal’ means increasing interaction with technology in our everyday lives. However, research consistently highlights the disparity of outcomes for older people living in rural and remote locations – who don’t have the same level of access to health care or technology services that their urban counterparts do.
Engaging households towards the future grid
The Future Grid Homes project aimed to identify best practice household engagement for the Future Grid. The purpose of this engagement is to improve households’ trust, participation in demand management, and adoption of new energy technologies (e.g. solar PV and battery storage) intended to support affordability and reliability objectives for residential energy consumers.
Design for wellbeing
The Design for Wellbeing Research Project focuses on the movement of patients to the newly designed Psychiatric Service inpatient units at Bendigo Hospital.
Consumer experiences following energy market reforms in Victoria: qualitative research with community support workers
The Consumer Experiences following Energy Market Reforms in Victoria project investigated how financially stressed and vulnerable consumers are faring in the current energy market.
Automated Decision Making in Transport Mobilities: Review of Industry Trends and Visions for the Future
The Transport and Mobilities Focus Area scoping study identifies where automated decision-making (ADM) is already present across transport mobilities in Australia (and where relevant overseas), and examines how industry, government and other stakeholders envision it will be part of our futures.
Future Home Demand: anticipating energy and everyday life trends across three Victorian networks
The Future Home Demand report presents the findings of a multi-staged research project with 36 households as well as a survey with 1,325 responses across the three electricity distribution businesses: CitiPower, United Energy and Powercor in Victoria. The report identified 51 emerging trends across household life, 9 future energy peak scenarios, and includes research participant designs for value-led energy futures.
Automated Decision-Making for Future Transport Mobilities
The Automated Decision-Making for Future Transport Mobilities: Stakeholder Perspectives report identifies how stakeholders in the mobilities industry define emerging trends in transport automation, their views on future technology, and how they envision people using it in the future.