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This paper shares the design and outcomes from a research project whereby students from schools in Australia, worked with their teachers to envisage and create artefacts of the future (2050). The research question was, ‘How can young people be engaged and empowered to consider creative and embodied futures thinking to generate sustainable living choices and practices now?’. Teachers were provided with an interdisciplinary unit of work, developed by the researchers based on the latest research in futuring education, and closely aligned with The Arts and cross-curriculum priority ‘Sustainability’ in the Australian Curriculum. Data was analysed about the students’ design, creation, and presentation of artefacts that exemplify the societal changes made to ensure a more sustainable future as well as interpretations about their artefacts. The project engaged teachers and learners together as artists, audience and activists; they imagined and shared alternative environmental futures and what might be needed to realise them.
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Jo Raphael (B.Ed, M.Ed, PhD, SFHEA)
is Senior Lecturer in Arts Education (Drama) in the School of Education at Deakin University, Australia. She is actively involved in teaching and researching in schools, community, and higher education settings within Australia and internationally, focussed on arts and arts-based approaches to learning across discipline areas including humanities, science, and education for sustainability. Her research is influenced by social justice principles drawing on the transformative potential of collaborative arts-based and participatory action research methods. Jo is co-director of Deakin University’s Centre for Regenerating Futures, Artistic Director of Fusion Theatre, and President of Drama Australia. https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/jo-raphael
Shelley Hannigan (BFA (painting), Grad Dip teaching, M.Ed (creative arts therapies), Phd)
works as a Senior Lecturer for Deakin University in the School of Education. She teaches art education and creative art therapy and researches across the transciplinary fields of art practice, creativity, creative art therapies, wellbeing, place, space and STEAM. She also supervises Masters and Phd students in these areas. Her work has been published in over 30 journal and book chapters and Shelley regularly exhibits from her art practice based research work see https://www.shelleyhannigan.com or https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/shelley-hannigan
Peta J. White is an Associate Professor in science and environmental education at Deakin University. She Co-directs the Centre for Regenerating Futures - a Faculty Centre that explores Anthropocene challenges and decolonising practices while building researcher capacity. Her current research follows three narratives: science and biology education; sustainability, environmental, and climate change education; and collaborative/activist methodology and research. See https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/peta-white
Robin Bellingham (B Appl Sc (Health), Dip Teach, M HSc (Hons), MCW, PhD).
Robin Bellingham is a Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy and Curriculum at Deakin University, Melbourne. Her research explores how education and methodologies can respond ethically to pressing problems of modernity such as educational and political disempowerment and disengagement, the ongoing effects of colonisation, and ecological crisis. She draws on different writing genres, posthumanism, new materialism, decolonial theory and critical theory. See https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/robin-bellingham
Danielle Hradsky (B.A, M.Teach, PhD)
is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Regenerating Futures at Deakin University, Australia. Her research focuses on arts-based pedagogical approaches to supercomplex challenges such as de/colonisation, (re)conciliation, and climate change. Danielle is delighted to be achieving real-world outcomes through her work as an educator and education consultant in schools, community arts centres and programs, and higher education. Danielle is a member of the Drama Victoria Committee of Management and Associate Editor of the Australian Drama Education Magazine.
