Acmi X: Australia’s first 'co-working' space set up by a major cultural institution

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image gets collaborative by opening office doors to Melbourne's creative community with a 60-seat space

When the Australian Centre for the Moving Image opened its doors in Melbourne 13 years ago, it couldn't be known how ubiquitous the moving image would become. What does a museum that celebrates the moving image do in an era of smartphones, YouTube and Instagram, when every teenager on Twitter becomes a curator and formerly hard-to-come-by film and sound recordings are now just a few clicks away?

For the director and chief executive of Acmi, Katrina Sedgwick, the new state of play means museums - as large cultural institutions, well-funded and well-resourced - must expand to "co-creation".