Deakin Waterfront Campus – 23rd of July 2025
Our third On Country Day was on Wadawurrung Country at the Deakin Waterfront campus in the beautiful Architecture A+B Spaces overlooking Corio Bay. This was the perfect space for the exhibition, making artefacts, and connecting with colleagues in the School of Architecture and Built Environment. This day was an opportunity to engage with a curated exhibition of artefacts created by primary school students as part of the CRF F Artefacts of the Future project, in which students learn about sustainable living and use art and design to imagine ideas for possible alternative futures and to share them with others. A community grant from the City of Greater Geelong allowed us to roll out the Artefacts of the Future project in schools this year. Workshops held in schools culminated
in a week-long exhibition of artefacts created by primary-aged students at the Gordon Gallery. Alongside this exhibition, children, family members, and members of the broader community were able to create artefacts in a special making space provided in the Gallery. The project lends itself to intergenerational sharing and learning.
Our On Country Day #3 was a chance for CRF colleagues to experience creative and collaborative futuring and then get hands-on with materials to make our own artefacts of the future. The arts-based activity released the imagination, and the resulting artefacts were rich with meaning and symbolism and gave rise to stories and deep conversations about how we can live in times of climate crisis and adapt to life on a damaged planet. Our On Country Day #3 was a chance for CRF colleagues to experience creative and collaborative futuring and then get hands-on with materials to make our own artefacts of the future. The arts-based activity released the imagination, and the resulting artefacts were rich with meaning and symbolism, and gave rise to stories and deep conversations about how we can live in times of climate crisis and adapt to life on a damaged planet. Colleagues who joined on this day were also invited to participate in the Artefacts of the Future research project, and we look forward to sharing related publications with you in the coming months.
