We Care: Imagining a precinct for purpose in the heart of Melbourne's CBD

You're invited! 

You're warmly invited to a very special collaboration opportunity: A We Care Data + Storytelling Workshop. 

Our Purpose

We Care creates a space for creative and experiential conversations around the nature of care and civic health in a digitally-intensive, ecologically-fragile world. 

Because all the data and all the knowledge in the world can't help us dream and imagine better futures. We also need creative collaborations and partnerships, forged with careful intent. 

What will we do? 

This is a workshop that combines creative storytelling with data scaffolding. We narrate and sketch the outlines of an imagined future, and then consider the data we need - to create, to share, to build -  in order to shape it. 

Easy! Ok, and a little experimental, too. 

Who do we want to attend?

Storytellers, regenerators, innovators and future makers interested in how creative practices, data and storytelling can shape healthier habitats for people and nature to thrive.  

What you’ll do 

Share a story, a poem, an insight, perspective, go on a walk, listen. Build a collaborative portrait of a future precinct. 

We will invite you to have your portrait filmed for inclusion in a future street projection project. 

IMPORTANT!

Attendees must sign a release form to allow your portrait to be filmed for inclusion in a future street-based storytelling project. 

Who is coming 

We have space for a maximum of 18 participants. Unwaged participants, students and representatives of social enterprises will be paid an honorary fee for participation. 

Who’s behind this?

The project is being led by Dr. Sarah Barns (RMIT Centre for Urban Research) with Stephen Johnson of Looking Forward / Fordcastle, Institute of Ageing and Healthy Habitats Network.  

Supported by the RMIT City North Social Innovation Precinct Activation Fund.