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 February 2026, Melbourne Museum & DATTA Vic took the Creative Futures Annual Design Workshop to Bendigo.  We were hosted by the wonderful Bendigo Tech School, and joined by educators from a range of local schools. Our design sprint used a place-based approach, with Bendigo’s landscape, industries and communities shaping the design challenges explored on the day. Teachers worked collaboratively to develop future-focused Design & Technologies teaching and learning programs grounded in local context, which we developed into a resource. 

So welcome to Local News 2040, which asks?

How might your community change for the better by 2040?

Students will work through the folio to design and prototype a future product, service, system or place that responds to a local challenge or opportunity, and then share their solutions as a short Local News 2040 story, reporting on the positive impact their idea has made to the community.

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Suitable for: Capabilities, Creating Design Solutions, Design Thinking, Ethics & Sustainability, Food & Fibre Production, Materials & Technologies Specialisations, STEM & STEAM Education, Technologies in Society, Textiles, VCE PD&T, Wearable Technologies, Years 7-10, Critical & Creative Thinking, Speculative Design, Media design, Unit of Work