By following the key stages in this digital portfolio, you will explore the history of Melbourne’s story and then generate new and innovative ideas for how it can sustainably evolve in the future in the areas of Transport
Energy
Community
and beyond.
DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA
YOUR IDEAS
Melbourne’s Future Story
THE MELBOURNE STORY @ MELBOURNE MUSEUM
Melbourne’s Future Story
Design and Technologies
Creating Design Solutions
A resource from DATTA Vic & Melbourne Museum
Transport - Energy - Community
Investigating
The exhibition explores Melbourne’s history from the earliest contact between white settlers and local Indigenous people. The exhibition consists of historical stories, artefacts, images and interactive components that illustrate the unfolding Melbourne story as seen through the eyes of its citizens - Indigenous peoples, settlers, refugees, those who found 'the good life' and those who struggled to survive.
The exhibition focuses on significant events, places and people, and is organised around successive periods in the city's history.
Explore The Melbourne Story exhibition in person or online and begin to understand the key stages in this amazing city’s evolution. How did that happen?
In this project, you will get to decide some of the future steps Melbourne will take in areas of your choosing!
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Melbourne’s Future Story
THE MELBOURNE STORY @ MELBOURNE MUSEUM
Melbourne’s Future Story
Timeline
Choose an area of interest to you in Melbourne’s past.
Explore the key developments in your chosen area and indicate them using images/sketches and annotations.
Try to put the key stages in chronological order (the order they happened in).
Investigating
Past
Now
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Melbourne’s Future Story
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Melbourne’s Future Story
Solarpunk
Explore the concept of Solarpunk online and try to identify key themes in this hopeful vision of sustainable futures.
Chose one solarpunk image that you like, paste it in the space provided and annotate it, labelling all of the futuristic elements that you think should be applied to a future version of Melbourne.
Investigating
Paste Favourite Solarpunk Image Here
Annotate Your Favourite Solarpunk Image
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Melbourne’s Future Story
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Melbourne’s Future Story
Generating
AI Image Generation
AI (Artificial Intelligence) be a powerful tool for developing future vision that can help with your planning and designing.
Use your own combinations of generation prompts from the word cloud on this page and your annotations of the Solarpunk image.
You can use either the AI image generator links on this page or new ones you have found.
Save three AI generated images to help you visualize your possible visions for the future of Melbourne.
Future
City
Community
Parks
Transport
Wind Power
Solar Power
Hydro Power
Solarpunk
Homes
High Density Housing
Sustainability
Nature
Paste AI
Concept Here
Paste AI
Concept Here
Paste AI
Concept Here
craiyon.com picfinder.com labs.openai.com
Electric
Vehicles
Renewable Energy Sources
Wildlife
Robots
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Melbourne’s Future Story
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Melbourne’s Future Story
Backcasting
Backcasting is a process of starting with a desirable (sustainable) future as a vision of success, then working back to today to identify possible steps or actions necessary for achieving that future vision,
1. Take your favourite AI-generated concept and annotate it in the space provided to identify key elements.
Generating
Annotate Your Favourite AI Concept
Paste Favourite AI Generated
Concept Image Here
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Melbourne’s Future Story
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Melbourne’s Future Story
Your Design
Complete this Future Technology Timeline to identify the different evolutions of products, services and technologies that will need to be created to eventually achieve your preferred future for Melbourne in your chosen area.
For each stage, you could consider the following.
Once complete, decide which stage you are going to design for.
Select which stage of technology you will now design a solution for
Generating
Tech Now
(up to 5 years away)
Tech in Distant Future
(20+ yrs)
Tech in Near Future
(10-20 years)
Future Technology Timeline
Now
Near
Distant
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Melbourne’s Future Story
Research
This research page will help you identify possible future technologies that could be used in your design concept.
Collect and annotate visual research that will help to inform your design.
Investigating
Key Research Area: Future Technologies
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Melbourne’s Future Story
Research
Investigating
Key Research Area: Potential Users
This research page will help you identify potential users of your design concept.
Collect and annotate visual research that will help to inform your design.
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Melbourne’s Future Story
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Melbourne’s Future Story
Research
This research page will help you with existing solutions and concepts related to solving the same or related concepts.
Collect and annotate visual research that will help to inform your design.
Investigating
Key Research Area: Similar Solutions and Concepts
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Concept Development
Sketch as many ideas as possible focusing on the key elements and visual research you have already generated.
Annotate each sketch to explain the following:
Generating
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Concept Development
Sketch as many ideas as possible focusing on the key elements and visual research you have already generated.
Annotate each sketch to explain the following:
Generating
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Melbourne’s Future Story
Concept Development
Sketch as many ideas as possible focusing on the key elements and visual research you have already generated.
Annotate each sketch to explain the following:
Generating
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Melbourne’s Future Story
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Melbourne’s Future Story
Final Design
Use software (Minecraft Education, Sketchup or similar) to generate a detailed and accurate model of your final design based on your best concept development sketches.
Annotate images of your CAD model to explain the following:
Producing
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Melbourne’s Future Story
Share and Evaluate
Share your digital designs and models with others through Minecraft Education, Sketchup (or similar) and attempt to capture the feedback your receive.
In the space provided create some prompts for feedback discussions or more specific evaluation questions.
How will you record this feedback? Consider the following
Evaluation
Discussion Prompts or Evaluation Questions for others |
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Melbourne’s Future Story
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Melbourne’s Future Story
Share and Evaluate
Consider using a PMI analysis when reviewing the feedback you have received.
Positive Comments
Minus(Negative) Comments
Interesting Comments
You should focus on finding feedback that would help to evolve or refine your concept in some way.
Evaluation
How could evaluation impact your design? |
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Minus (Negative): |
Interesting: |
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Melbourne’s Future Story
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Melbourne’s Future Story
This resource was developed at the Creative Futures Annual Design Workshop, which was held at Melbourne Museum in July 2022. Teachers participated in design sprints to explore how the collections and service of Melbourne Museum be used to support the teaching of design in Victorian schools.
Thanks to the fantastic group of educators who contributed to this project:
Contributors
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Aisha Dani, Banyule Nillumbik Tech School
Andy Ding, Gleneagles Secondary College
Dan O'Boyle, Emmanuel College Point Cook
Elissa Michell, Whittlesea Tech School
Jain Manuel, Kolbe Catholic College
Kathy Thompson, Aquinas College
Kirsten Morley, Somerville Secondary College
Marika Amvrosiadis, Cranbourne Secondary College
Maryann Augustinus, University High School
Michelle Magalona, Manor Lakes P-12 College
Misa Fujii, Whittlesea Tech School
Peta Howard, Puffing Billy Railway
Roman Schroder, Upwey High School
Ross Brooks, Caulfield Grammar School
Siobhan Kavenagh, Sacred Heart College Geelong
Steve Santilli, Korumburra Secondary College
William Davies, Peninsula Grammar