MONASH UNIVERSITY LAUNCHES BOLD NEW ‘FUTURE WITHOUT CHANGE’ ACTIVATION VIA VMLY&R MELBOURNE
Monash University will launch the next phase of its ‘Change it’ campaign via VMLY&R Melbourne, with a ‘Future Without Change’ on Open Day this weekend.
The bold new activation provokes audiences to consider the consequences of inaction on issues like global warming, violence against women, food security, human rights abuse, the spread of superbugs and cyber-crime.
A Future Without Change will launch with a physical and virtual activation that immerses audiences in a future where we have continued to adapt to the world’s problems rather than solve them. The centrepiece of the campaign demonstrates Monash University’s commitment to pursuing global solutions to pressing issues facing the world.
The purpose-built installation at the University’s Clayton campus features up to 17 interactive scenes – visitors can walk through and interact with a range of fictitious products, services and digital experiences that show how we might live in the future.
Antidepressant-laden cereals, energy ballots, artificial vegetables and vintage bottled water are some of the products visitors can taste, touch and experience when they walk into the dystopian universe.
Fabian Marrone, chief marketing officer at Monash University, said the campaign is a call to action to make change with Monash: “We are challenging audiences to act on global issues by joining Monash University’s thriving community to build a future by solving these problems.
“It’s bold and at times confronting, but our campaigns are thoughtful and provoking in a way that we hope inspires a new generation of change makers.
“We want people to see Monash University as a catalyst in the pursuit of global solutions and know they can be part of it, whether it’s through studying with us, researching with us, partnering with us or engaging with us.”
The activation will immerse audiences in what a future without change might look like, linking to the solutions being addressed at the University.
Says Marrone: “Every execution links back to research, initiatives, and programs of work being done at Monash to safeguard the future.
“The fictitious scenarios aim to represent a problem at crisis point and take audiences on a journey right through to the solutions being pursued through various streams of work at Monash University.”
A Future Without Change builds on two previous campaigns, which positioned Monash University as a thought leader in higher education, and a world leader in education, research and global engagement impact.
The campaign started with the Question the Answers campaign in 2016, which encouraged audiences to challenge the status quo.
In May 2018, Monash launched ‘If you don’t like it, change it’ – an unapologetic campaign highlighting some of the most pressing global issues of our time.
Says Jake Barrow, executive creative director, VMLY&R Melbourne: “We are extremely proud to again be partnering with Monash University in developing such modern and thought-provoking advertising.”
“Creating these tactile provocations, for people to pick up, feel, experience and ultimately be challenged by, will leave a lasting impression about the future they wish to pursue. This campaign has certainly stretched our imaginations and we’re sure our curiosity will extend to those who experience Future Without Change.”
A Future Without Change will launch at Open Day on Sunday 4 August 2019 at Monash University’s Clayton Campus.
Open Day will be held at the Peninsula campus on Saturday 3 August, at Clayton and Caulfield campuses on Sunday 4 August, and at Parkville campus on Sunday 18 August.
For more information, visit the ‘Future Without Change‘ and Open Day websites.
View the product descriptions here.
Client: Monash University
Chief Marketing Officer: Fabian Marrone
Director, Strategic Marketing and Communications: Caroline Knowles
Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing and Communications: Jane Mahuru
Creative Agency: VMLY&R Melbourne
Chief Creative Officer: Paul Nagy
Executive Creative Director: Jake Barrow
Senior Art Director: Kieran Moroney
Copywriter: Blair Panozza
Creative: Oliver Brock
Creative: Jesse Young
Lead Designer: Simon Gray
Designer: Tracy Fong
Editor: Leigh Cooke
Developer: Alex Case
Project Manager: Gabriel Montalban
Producer: Jules Callan
Producer: Aaron Rocca
Managing Partner: Jon Kenyon
Client Service Director: Katherine Chen
Account Director: Louise Brugman
Account Manager: Jessica Parker
Activation Agency: Graffiti
Event Producers: Stephanie Patniotis & Beau Meakins
13 Comments
Those bottles look absolutely nothing like what McCann did for University of Melbourne…..
Can you provide a link where we can see this? No didn’t think so. Talk is cheap!
However, this is nice.
Those cereal boxes look nothing like Hungry Puffs.
At some point someone surely has to have said its not a great idea to replicate other agency’s and Uni Melb’s ideas… or at a minimum at least not PR it.
What is this contrived nonsense?
Monash needs to run some of its plagiarism software over its advertising… those bottles are exact rip offs of Uni Melb’s Made Possible water bottles. What a joke. Zero marks.
Who promoted his awful bank work on CB’s inferior competitor’s site. Credibility diminishing fast.
If you think just because there are some bottles in this idea that it’s remotely similar to the Melbourne one you’re a moron.
Kind-Off Carrot?
‘Kind-Off Carrot’?
No budget for a copywriter?
Honestly this is nonsense
Decent design, terrible plagiarism. At least copy something from a long time ago or a place far away