Object-based learning workshop

A session designed specifically for Campus Collaboration by the Museum’s amazing Object-based Learning team. It’s a fun, interactive workshop engaging with the collections to develop connections between participants to build community, social cohesion and interdisciplinary awareness. The session includes facilitated OBL activities that incorporate handling unique artefacts, specimens, and artworks in the object labs, as well as small-group challenges in the galleries.

An event to bring our communities together to think and reflect on how we continue to build trust and a sense of courageous purpose.

Time and location

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025

Time: 10.30am – 12pm

Location: Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney (main campus)

This event is limited to 24 people.

About Campus Collaboration

Campus Collaboration is a project co-led by Sophie Gee (Vice Chancellor's Fellow, English); Danielle Celermajer (Sydney Environment Institute) and Kate Harrison Brennan (Sydney Policy Lab). We facilitate and lead activities to build communities of trust across the university, grounded in the idea that uncertainty and complex difference — states of not-knowing —are crucial for creating strong institutions.

Our work emphasizes care and compassion as foundational to our purpose as a university. We're interested in arts and humanities-led activities because these disciplines are uniquely skilled in working with complex emotions, uncertainty and creative ambiguities.

Work of this kind, as we all know, is nuanced. It takes time to get beyond first steps and relatively superficial engagements. So, with this in mind, we’ve organised these activities to bring our communities together and reflect deeply, without a specific focus on a time-urgent “problem”.

Questions? Please email: louise.cooper@sydney.edu.au