The Centre for Regenerating Futures
Dear Regenerating Futures Colleagues! At the end of 2025, we completed our three-year term as the Centre for Regenerating Futures (CRF). Please see our website for the celebration of what we have achieved together… https://regeneratingfutures.deakin.edu.au/ A report is coming soon from our three years as the CRF. Due to a university re-structure, we have begun 2026 as […]
Dear Centre Members, HDR Colleagues, and Allied members, Last week we received the Faculty Research Review outcomes via the Faculty Town Hall meeting and the full report can be read here. The report describes the changes that impact the Centre for Regenerating Futures… With regard to the Faculty Research Groups the following recommendations are: c. […]
Dear Centre Members, HDR Colleagues, and Allied members, We are pleased to have made it to December. This is our third year as the CRF and we (Peta and Jo) have been reflecting on our successes and impact. If you have also been reflecting on this (or even if you haven’t) let us know…. We […]
Dear Centre Members, HDR Colleagues, and Allied members, As COP30 wraps up in Belém, Brazil, we can celebrate. The Climate Literacy framework was launched at COP30 and deemed a big success! See the presentation by Andreas Schleicher here. He says, “Education is the steering wheel and classrooms are the laboratories of the future and engines […]
As COP30 takes off in Belém, Brazil, we are ready to watch and stand united as we demand better climate policy. Here are three sites that might enable you to take a look. As the world turns its eyes to Belém for the COP30 climate discussions, the OECD COP30 Virtual Pavilion brings together leading experts, […]
As trimester 2 draws to a close, we begin to settle into preparations for trimester 3 or our research focussed time… and the close of this year. Where did that year go? In fact, for the CRF we are now asking “where did our three years go?” We have participated in the Faculty research review and put forward a strong claim/request for the continuation of our community and an increase for our research capacity building. Jo and Peta have participated in meetings, written a submission, and discussed many possibilities. We are now watching this space to hear how the faculty will respond.
Do you aspire to belong to a university that functions in a place-based culturally regenerative way? In 10 days time the CRF Culturally Regenerative Universities Project Team is hosting a CRF Regenerator inspired by experiences of participating in the Culturally Regenerative Universities (CRU) project over the last six months. You are invited to join for an introduction to the CRU and the Delama Dja walk on the Waurn Ponds campus to practice relating with place and immersing in respectful, relational ways of learning together. The team is looking forward to sharing what they have been learning through a cooperative / appreciative inquiry, which has run alongside cooperative inquiries at five other universities. The details for joining are below, RSVP required.
In this newsletter we promote three upcoming Futures Forums that focus on elements of environmental and climate action. Next week Michael Chew, Joe Ferguson and John Micael Callao (Makel) will present on Mobilising Youth Environmental Action, conducted in three countries across the Australia-Asia Pacific region. This research contributes to our understanding of how participatory media can advance regenerative futures through authentic youth voices and collaborative action and has been enabled by a CRF postdoc research grant. Come along to learn about this research and see what’s possible with some Enabler funds.
September is Biodiversity month and 7th September was National Threatened Species day. It’s the kind of day that we should be aspiring NOT to have! However, Threatened Species day provokes us to pay attention to our roles in our ecosystem, to find ways to live our responsibility and to ensure we are all contributing meaningfully by managing to live with enough, and to right-size (term well used by Prof. Anne Poelina) our consumption. Take some time this week to pay attention and take some action – check an app about your local species, engage in acts of kindness in caring for and with Country… maybe by planting some plant species for our local pollinators, or putting out a new insect hotel… or signing up to volunteer your time to a local network. You can also read some good news items about some species at the end of the newsletter.
Peta and Jo have been networking in Denmark Europe – following our connections to CUHRE – the Centre for Understanding Human Relations with the Environment attending the International Eco-Literacy Research Festival. In response to our commitment to attending the Festival and curating connections for the CRF we are offering a different, visually reflective, community sharing newsletter this fortnight. You can expect a return to the usually informative community building newsletter on the 9th September.