Sarah McArthur

As Head of Innovation Practice at CityLab, City of Melbourne’s internal consultancy, Sarah brings an antidisciplinary approach to solving challenges. As a design leader her background has intersected strategic, experience, service, brand, product and spatial design across studios, new venture startups and innovation labs. Sarah’s radical curiosity is focused on how emergent technology, speculative design and experiential futures can enable vivid experiences that forge human connection and help us make better decisions for tomorrow, today. A co-founder of the Melbourne chapter of Speculative Futures Sarah is currently developing a course for the RMIT University, Master of Design Futures program, exploring future practice and collective imagination in communities.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.