Growing Waa Weelum: People, Plants, Place is a project workshop series run through RMIT University’s School of Fashion and Textiles. The series is led by textile and dye specialist Verity Prideaux, fashion and place academic Dr Tarryn Handcock, and Cathy Doe (Irukandji) Reconciliation Advisor for the College of Design & Social Context at RMIT, with philanthropic support from the Verdnik Family.
Growing Waa Weelum: People, Plants, Place aims to provide space for sharing, growing and generating creative, community, and cross-cultural approaches through fashion and textiles, in relationship with the on-site dye garden at RMIT Brunswick campus.
Waa Weelum ('home of the crow') is a name given by N’Arwee’t Carolyn Briggs to the lands where RMIT’s Brunswick campus is located. N’Arwee’t Professor Carolyn Briggs AM is a descendant of the First Peoples of Melbourne, the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung, and Elder in Research in RMIT’s College of Design and Social Context.
RMIT acknowledges the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nations as the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which this event takes place. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.