Creative Futures
Teaching Design Workshop
A free, one-day Design & Technologies professional learning workshop in Bendigo. Co-design future-focused, regenerative teaching programs with DATTA Victoria and Museums Victoria.
- Date/Time:
- Monday 9 February 2026, 9:30am to 3:30pm
- Location:
- Bendigo Tech School
- Cost:
- Free
Teacher professional learning in Bendigo
This one-day professional learning workshop is designed for Design & Technologies teachers wanting to strengthen their understanding of future-focused and regenerative design, and how to teach these concepts through authentic, place-based learning.
Delivered by DATTA Victoria and Museums Victoria, Creative Futures uses Bendigo’s landscape, industries and communities to explore real-world design challenges. Teachers will work collaboratively to co-design curriculum-aligned units of work and contribute to a new teaching resource to be released free to all Victorian schools.
From Extractive to Regenerative
Through hands-on activities and collaborative design, teachers will explore the shift from extractive product systems to regenerative and circular design practices, and consider how Design & Technologies education can prepare students to respond to environmental, social and economic challenges.
Teachers will explore
- Regenerative and future-focused approaches to Design & Technologies
- Place-based and inquiry-led design challenges
- How Museums Victoria collections and services support classroom teaching
- Mapping design ideas to the Victorian Curriculum Design & Technologies processes
- Co-designing and pitching a unit of work for statewide use
Teachers will be provided
- Professional learning resources
- Curriculum-aligned teaching ideas and activities
- Morning Tea, Lunch and refreshments
Other key information
AITSL Standards
Know students and how they learn
- 1.2 Understand how students learn
- 2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
- 2.2 Content selection and organisation
- 3.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
- 6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice
- 7.4 Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities
Curriculum links
Design & Technologies: Levels 7–8
Investigate, design, produce and evaluate solutions to authentic design challenges, with a focus on sustainability, systems thinking and emerging technologies.
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