At this workshop, you will deconstruct a treasured pair of shoes and arrange the components into a commemorative flat-lay artwork to keep and display.
Along the way, you'll discover how shoes are actually made, the materials and labour that go into creating them, and the sustainability challenges connected to our current footwear choices and consumption habits.
Join this reflective, creative experience turning a meaningful object into something new and change how you see footwear forever.
We will provide: Tools, materials, safety demonstration.
Please bring with you: One significant pair of shoes no longer worn.
Additional info: Over 18s only due to sharp tools.
This activity is part of the RMIT x MCC Circular Campus to Community Project.
RMIT and Merri-Bek City Council (MCC) have a shared vision to build meaningful connections out into industry, community, and academia to support social, economic and environmental opportunities.
The Circular Campus to Community Project is delivering a series of collaborative and connected circularity-themed programming. Activities will be centred around five streams: Regenerate, Repair, Recycle, Redesign, Rethink – with a focus on textiles creation, repair, and care, through knowledge and skill sharing.
To find out more visit: RMIT PlaceLab website.
Have you got a t-shirt you wish you could alter or restyle?
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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