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Caring for Country leave

What if you changed your mindset from what you get to what you give? What if you were part of an irresistible collaborative responsibility to Care For Country?

Through processes of reciprocity and reflection, this project titled ‘Caring for Country leave’ probes us to ask “how am I caring for and honouring the land?”

Giving back, connecting and caring for Country enables all of the community to demonstrate real action towards climate change through a cycle of reciprocity with First Nation communities and all life within and across stolen and unceded land in Australia.

C4C Leave is PROACTIVE and PREVENTATIVE climate action.��

Access a new category of leave that enables you to give back to Country through culturally and environmentally appropriate activities locally and across Australia.��

Climate team members: Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard, Christina Silk, Melody Framp and Tony Loughland. Visual Communication Facilitator: Baron Chau.

Making Good Media

The media shapes and defines our culture. The story we’re telling now doesn’t reflect climate science and the overwhelming consensus on the negative impact humans are having. We can change the story and the impact.  

Simple shifts can create a culture of positive climate actions. The morning weather presenter can improve our understanding of the energy grid, the finance report can redefine value and what it means to be a market-leader, a cooking show can reduce food waste, children’s TV can inspire the next generation and give hope to their parents. We can inform and empower a broad range of audiences without adding to climate anxiety.   

At massive scale, content innovation and shifts in language can make an exponential difference. From the outset, we need the right people in the room - an intersectional community with diverse knowledges. First Nations perspectives, data-based climate science, life-centred design, economic strategy, and more. Everyone can be part of it (it’s already happening). 

Climate team members: Paul Matthews, Rebecca Green and Rickie-Lee McLaurin-Smith.��Visual Communication Facilitator: Baron Chau.

Connect With Energy

What if it was normal to gift energy to your neighbours? Connect With Energy envisions new systems that allow for neighbours who have access to clean electricity off-grid to share with those who don’t, helping all city-dwellers gain more electricity independence. The growing adoption of household solar panels presents challenges for our ‘big’ energy grids. To prevent overloads, household solar is intentionally disabled at certain times in some Australian states. These challenges could be overcome in other, more climate-friendly ways. With more than 1 in 4 homes in Australia generating clean electricity through rooftop solar panels, and 62% of Australians already knowing many of their neighbours by name, we would be starting from a good place.��

Climate team members: Rickie-Lee McLaurin-Smith, Rebecca Green and Paul Matthews.��Visual Communication Facilitator: Baron Chau.��

Fashion Literacy

We don’t realise how much we trust the information given to us and we don’t tap into our capacity to understand it critically. Information literacy empowers people to question the information and challenge its legitimacy. There is a general unawareness of fashion’s contribution to the systems that function on toxic power imbalances. We have identified the need to develop and adapt a set of actionable tools to neutralise them for peace and justice. 

We propose Fashion Literacy, our way of inspiring consumers to make a critical analysis of their purchases. Our aim is to enable consumers to align their purchasing their clothes with their values. Fashion Literacy comes in the form of a toolkit. It asks series of questions that prompts a consumer to educate themselves about the purchase they are going to make before they do it.

Power team members: Michael Donohue, Nicole Crouch, Chanah Wainer, Trea Murphy, Srinjoy Bose, Uros Cvoro, Paola Favaro and Damien March.��Visual Communication Facilitator: Michael Donohue.��

Finding purpose through passion

What if we could empower people to find purpose through passion?

Inspired by Bruce Mau’s principle “Work on what you love”, this project seeks to establish a methodology to aid people in finding their purpose, ultimately challenging the existing education and work system.��

According to studies, the majority of young adults feel stressed on a daily basis which affects their mental and physical health, adding to the pressure put on our healthcare systems. Left without a sense of direction and fulfilment, most adults struggle to function within a one-size-fits-all system. The increasing number of people with mental health issues indicates that the current system is failing the majority. To improve the wellbeing of people, we need to challenge the status quo and offer an alternative.��

We are developing a methodology consisting of 5 pillars of self-discovery (Play, Connection to others, Nature, Reflection, Mindfulness) that aids in finding passions and purpose. By inspiring the individual to find what brings meaning to their lives, and giving them a roadmap as well as an environment that encourages selffulfilment, we are able to spread the treasure of living a meaningful life.��

We need your help to fill this book of empty pages. Support us today by engaging with our activities, support us for the years to come by joining us in developing and establishing this framework.

Translation team members: Hana Thomson, Alina Wirtz, Amy Munns, Alexianna Stephenson and Jordon Lewis.

re-situ

What if all knowledge was resituated in place? re-situ is a multimedia, open-source platform that changes the way we share knowledge, process information, and learn. Within the platform, Indigenous place-based truths are the anchor points from which other knowledge is organised. Imagine a more immersive and meaningful Wikipedia that acts as a repository of content and promotes a more holistic, truthful, and relational understanding of the world.

It is estimated that human knowledge doubles every 12 hours yet most people don’t engage with it meaningfully. Our platform relates knowledge to place providing greater context and increasing information retention.��

The marginalisation of First Nations perspectives has limited our ability to care for and sustain all life forms. re-situ shares First Nations knowledge to foster respect, recognition, and a deeper value for these cultures and systems. The platform increases one’s capacity to listen, unlearn and relearn while encouraging greater connection to Country.

Translation team members: Charlotte Adams, Josh Anstee, Maria Thaddea, Max Booker, Jiaying Qian, Josephine Collins, Nina Lai, Bronte Contador-Kelsall.��