DATTA Vic - Creative Futures Annual Design Workshop Resources

CREATIVE FUTURES ANNUAL DESIGN WORKSHOP

CLASSROOM RESOURCES

The Creative Futures Annual Design Workshop is a teacher education program delivered in partnership between Melbourne Museum and DATTA Vic and funded by Creative Futures.

Each year, teachers come together at Melbourne Museum for a unique professional learning experience on using museum collections and design thinking practices to enrich schools-based design education.

They also contribute to the development of new Design & Technologies classroom resources based on museum collections.

2024 Resource - Future Eco Fashion

2024's Creative Future's Design Education Workshop had a hands-on focus as we took a deep dive into prototyping as a way to generate ideas, tell stories and imagine future artifacts.

Our group started with an exploration to the Mini Mega Model Museum exhibition, and then got the amazing opportunity to visit behind the scenes in the preparators' workshop. This is where all exhibition models are made, and where animal specimens are treated to be ready for storage or display. Let's just say we needed a stronger stomach than usual for this workshop!

After an afternoon of design sprints and prototyping, we ended up with a resource that focused on the global problem of fast fashion. You can use this set of slides to get your students exploring how to transform waste materials and locally grown resources into sustainable fashion.

Download Future Eco Fashion editable PowerPoint slides

And if you're looking for some design inspiration, check out the amazing items in Museums Victoria online fashion collections HERE.

Thanks to the educators who took part in our 2024 Melbourne Museum workshop and collaborated with us to develop this resource;

Anna Wylie, Deakin University
Benedicte Imbert, McLelland College
Daniel Matic, Fountain Gate Secondary College
Ellie Lightbody, Kingswood College
Francesca Lennie, Zoos Victoria
Hanna Kim, Holocaust Museum
Hayley Rivers, Catholic Regional College, North Keilor

Heather Clark, Home Education Network
Jennifer Gilbert Nguyen, Fountain Gate Secondary College
John Cripps Clark, Deakin University
Lin Vartan, Carey Baptist Grammar School
Michelle Magalona, Suzanne Cory High School
Sarah Raynor, Chaffey Secondary College
Roman Schroder, Upwey High School

2023 Resource - Bio Communities

How can we design new, sustainable neighborhoods based on principles of Bio Communities?

In 2023, DATTA Vic and Melbourne Museum collaborated with our participating teachers to create a Bio Communities resource which engages students in regenerative design. This was based on the groups experience of exploring a number of nature-based exhibitions at Melbourne Museum, including Bugs Alive!, the Gandel Gondwana Garden and the Milarri Garden Trail. This resource is available as a PDF but also as an editable Powerpoint, which means teachers and students can adapt it to suit their own context.

Download Bio Communities editable PowerPoint slides

Thanks to the fantastic group of educators who participated in our 2023 workshop and helped to create this free student resource:

Carmel Scarso, Onyx Design Group
Elissa Michell, Whittlesea Tech School
Felicity Rogerson, Christian College Highton
Kathleen Earle, Buchan Primary School
Maree Jones, St Joseph's College Mildura
Misa Fujii, Whittlesea Tech School

Nicola Hardy, RMIT University
Priya Cardinaletti, St John's Regional College Dandenong
Roman Schroder, Upwey High School
Sabrina Fernando, Whittlesea Tech School
Ubaldino Mantelli, Geelong High School

2022 Resource - Melbourne's Future Story

In 2022, our participating teachers helped to produce a new speculative design resource called Melbourne's Future Story. This is a digital portfolio that helps students explore the history of Melbourne’s story and then generate new and innovative ideas for how it can sustainably evolve in the future in the areas of transport, energy and community.

This resource is available as a PDF but also as an editable Google Slide doc, which means teachers can adapt it to suit their own context.

Download Melbourne's Future Story - PDF Portfolio
Download Melbourne's Future Story - editable Google Slide doc

Thanks to the amazing and creative group of educators who participated in our 2022 workshop and helped to create this free student resource:

Aisha Dani, Banyule Nillumbik Tech School
Andy Ding, Gleneagles Secondary College
Dan O'Boyle, Emmanuel College Point Cook
Elissa Michell, Whittlesea Tech School
Jain Manuel, Kolbe Catholic College
Kathy Thompson, Aquinas College
Kirsten Morley, Somerville Secondary College
Marika Amvrosiadis, Cranbourne Secondary College
Maryann Augustinus, University High School

Michelle Magalona, Manor Lakes P-12 College
Misa Fujii, Whittlesea Tech School
Peta Howard, Puffing Billy Railway
Roman Schroder, Upwey High School
Ross Brooks, Caulfield Grammar School
Siobhan Kavenagh, Sacred Heart College Geelong
Steve Santilli, Korumburra Secondary College
William Davies, Peninsula Grammar

If you want to explore Victoria's technological history further, check out these links from the Museum's Collections Online archive:

2021 Resource - Community Connections

In 2021, the group helped to develop Community Connections, a project which will engage your students - individually or collaboratively - in exploring their own community connections through designing and creating a digital product that can be shared with others. This resource offers a specific opportunity to explore Indigenous culture and gives guidance on how to engage with First Nations’ design through the recently published Australian Indigenous Design Charter.

This resources consists of three elements:

The resource is flexible and editable, and can be adapted for your own year group or school focus.

Thanks to the teachers who participated in the 2021 program, and contributed to the development of this resource: