Radial Recycling: Co-Design and Reuse Through Creative Play

We need you! Deakin’s Waterfront Gallery in the Sally Walker building will be transformed into a space that invites the public to collaborate, co-design and make something new in response to the provocation: What if we already have enough?

Thousands of discarded objects, mainly made from plastic, will be used as potential material for an emergent collective design in the gallery space. Intergenerational participants will be invited to respond to a series of rules-based constraints as they engage in playful experimentation with the visual and sonic qualities of discarded and recycled material objects.

This will be facilitated by a collective of arts practitioners and arts educators from Deakin’s Faculty of Arts and Education. This collaborative design-thinking approach generates new ways of knowing, seeing, feeling and thinking about how we might redesign in innovative and sustainable ways.