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 - Our Town 2050 |
| In late 2024, Melbourne Museum & DATTA Vic took the Creative Futures Annual Design Workshop on the road to Shepparton. In a full-day workshop for local educators hosted by Greater Shepparton Secondary College, we explored how teachers could develop a speculative design project for their classes which is based on their unique needs and interests as rural & regional schools. The day resulted in a new resource - Our Town 2050 - which can be used by teachers wherever they are as a way to engage their students in the design process, learning about the past and speculative thinking, all in the context of their own communities.
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Thanks to the educators who took part in our 2024 Shepparton workshop and collaborated with us to develop this resource; |
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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.
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; |
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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.
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Thanks to the fantastic group of educators who participated in our 2023 workshop and helped to create this free student resource: |
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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. It should be used as a student portfolio for this project. |
Thanks to the amazing and creative group of educators who participated in our 2022 workshop and helped to create this free student resource:
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If you want to explore Victoria's technological history further, check out these links from the Museum's Collections Online archive:
- Steam power is not just a relic of the past - Museums Victoria
- Our addiction to plastic - Museums Victoria
- Tyama: A deeper sense of knowing (museumsvictoria.com.au)
- Tyama: A multisensory experience of nature - Melbourne Museum (museumsvictoria.com.au)
- Electric Tram Model - Bombardier Transportation, E-class 'Flexity', Dandenong, Victoria, 2013 (museumsvictoria.com.au)
- Think Ahead - Scienceworks (museumsvictoria.com.au)
- Self-guided activity - Scienceworks (museumsvictoria.com.au)
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:
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Each year, new resources will be developed and added to this page, and all DATTA Vic members are invited to apply to participate in the workshops.
See below for some photographs from the 2022 and 2023 Creative Futures Annual Design Workshops.
Thanks to the fantastic educators who participated!
Disclaimer The approaches outlined in these resources are those of the author and contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of DATTA Vic. While all attempts have been made to align the advice and suggestions with VCAA expectations, the support material has not been verified by VCAA. Authors have acted with all available information from VCAA at the time of publication. Responsibility for any loss resulting from action or refraining from action in response to the material must be accepted by users. Teachers must refer to the mandatory documents in relation to the study from VCAA, available online and updated every year. |
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