Collective Makers
Collective Makers - Participatory Public Artwork
Collaborative Public Artwork, Installation, and Workshops | 2020
Materials: Natural and repurposed materials including scaffolding, yarn, timber, musical instruments, plants, textile offcuts, RMIT student contributions
What happens when we create something together?
Collective Makers is a large-scale participatory public artwork co-created by RMIT students, RMIT Creative, and the internationally recognised Slow Art Collective. Installed on Bowen Street for Semester One Orientation, the work transformed the campus into a vibrant site of collaboration, creativity, workshops, and shared expression.
Over 20 students from diverse disciplines came together to design, develop, and build the evolving structure. Guided by the Slow Art Collective’s principles of slowness, sustainability, and sensory experience. The piece was made using natural and repurposed materials. It grew day by day as students and passers-by contributed their own touches through a series of hands-on workshops during welcome events.
At its core, Collective Makers is a celebration of process over perfection - an invitation to pause, connect, and make something meaningful together.
What can we build when we slow down and co-create?
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Semester One Orientation Installation at RMIT University in collaboration with the Slow Art Collective, Australia (2020).
