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 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.

In 2023, DATTA Vic and Melbourne Museum and Banyule Nillumbik Tech School collaborated with our participating teachers to create a Bio Communities resource which engages students in regenerative design. 

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

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 an editable PowerPoint, which means teachers and students can adapt it to suit their own context.

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