The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT)’s A Partnership for Uncertain Times (https://www.anat.org.au/program/a-partnership-for-uncertain-times/): Featuring four South Australian artists working at the intersections of art, science, and technology, A Partnership for Uncertain Times is premised on ‘uncertainty’, with the remit to use cross-disciplinary fields to create artworks that critically engage with our complex and increasingly uncertain world. The series is an exploration of process that includes a workshop and forum, an exhibition, artist Q&A as well as text and video essays. The four projects include First Nations traditional land management through fire, optical effects and depth of field in projected moving images, interspecies empathy, and natural and altered landscapes.
FoAM (https://fo.am/): A transdisciplinary network working across art, science, nature and everyday life, who, guided by the imperative to grow your own worlds, create conditions, build tools, and facilitate the processes that encourage things to grow. The FoAM website contains an archive of projects and publications, including a brief introduction to working with futures as artists and culture makers (Kuzmanovic & Gaffney, 2019).
Liam Young (https://liamyoung.org/): Liam Young is an Australian-born director, architect, and futurist whose thought-provoking and sometimes controversial work opens up conversations querying urban existence, architecture, and entertainment. Young’s exhibition Planetary Design, open at the National Gallery of Victoria until February 11, 2024, provides an immersive display of moving image works, costumes and photography, proposing thought-provoking redesigns of our planet that offer a radically optimistic solution to the climate crisis. Young offers two radical and highly speculative design ideas (The Great Endeavour, depicting the construction of a global system of greenhouse gas extraction and storage, and Planet City, providing a window into an alternative urban future) in response to the climate emergency, calling for us all to be more ambitious, creative and collaborative in the way we address the climate crisis (https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/liam-young-planetary-redesign/)
MyMachine Global Foundation (https://mymachine-global.org/): A methodology to build children’s creative confidence and ensure all children can fulfil their potential. With MyMachine, primary students invent a dream machine, tertiary students design a concept, and secondary technical students make a working prototype. Industry also connects with expertise, materials, and funding. At the end of the cycle, an interactive exhibition showcases the process from original drawings to scale models and working prototypes. MyMachine values and teaches creativity, entrepreneurial skills, 21st century skills, authentic learning, project-based learning, inter-generational learning, active learning, empathy, empowerment, design thinking, STEAM-D, joy and wonder, maker-centered learning, sustainability, and open education. MyMachine have worked with more than 25,000 students across 47 countries. A video summary of MyMachine can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOpUxpUrRVQ&ab_channel=MyMachineGlobalFoundation
Museum of the Future (https://museumofthefuture.ae/en/experience): A physical museum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, that aims to inspire and empower people to positively shape humanity’s next chamber through optimistic imagination and commitment to a more sustainable future for all.
Toyota Dream Car Art Contest (https://www.toyota.com.au/dreamcar): The Toyota Dream Car Art Contest is a chance for tomorrow’s engineers, designers and creative thinkers to let their imaginations run wild by drawing their ‘Dream Car’. The contest is open to three age groups (under 8, 8-11, and 12-15), with the top eight entrants receiving $275 gift cards, and the winner receiving a $2500 gift card for their school and another $2500 gift card for themselves. All entries must be created by hand (drawing, painting, etc.).
Science Gallery Melbourne (https://melbourne.sciencegallery.com): A free gallery exploring the collision of art and science, located on the corner of Grattan and Swanston Streets.
Victoria’s Climate Change Forum (2021): A day dedicated to exploring the current state of Climate Change education in Victoria and to creating a vision for the future of climate change education across the state. Information about the day is hosted on the following website: https://sustainable88future.wixsite.com/climatechangeedforum