This toolkit uses haptic interaction to facilitate an active space for discussion and idea generation around the topic of belonging. By exploring materiality and reading artefacts physically, we are able to access innovative ways of connecting with others. These artefacts act as a starting point for discussion and enable creative thinking by allowing users an opportunity to better understand their unique and shared experiences of the world. The aim of this toolkit is to create a psychosocial space that allows users to explore their experience in a productive and inclusive environment. By using a shared language, it creates an opportunity for innovative discussion around the topic of belonging and designing for socially inclusive communities.

In this workshop, we will explore how we can create a visual language of ‘belonging’ through design thinking, colour explorations, and mark making experiments. The aim is to use paint and colour to elicit emotional responses and communicate particular messages or feelings. (Disclaimer: no previous visual arts experience is required to be part of this workshop).

Making Meaning is a workshop that aims to bring people together to better understand and create meaning through the act of making. In this fun and interactive workshop, you'll create abstract forms using play-doh to give meaningful form to ideas. These will be used to promote conversation and discussion about your personal values and reflect on what is most important to you.

Creating Community is a pop-up exhibition series that invites members of the public to engage in meaningful discussion about what community means to them. This research explores how designed objects – or critical artefacts – can evoke different lines of thinking and a different depth of conversation to a written or spoken inquiry. As an intangible and evolving feeling, community can be difficult to describe. The critical artefacts in this exhibition are designed to explore the value of community and where we draw the line for what is and is not one.

The Museum of Meaningful Moments is a community wellbeing project that invites people to respond to questions or prompts about their everyday experiences in times of change. It has been designed so that people of all ages and from all walks of life can share their experiences, observations, insights, and stories in whatever form they feel most comfortable with. It may be a photo, video, some artwork, or something completely different. The purpose of the Museum is to showcase and celebrate the moments we take for granted in daily life.

Tell-a-phone is an interactive installation that asks viewers to respond to a question by speaking into a dial telephone. Tell-a-phone provides a safe and private space for people to share reflections, ideas and feelings in response to a particular topic or question. The act of engaging with the materiality of an old dial phone helps ground people and encourages them to form a reflective connection to a simple act of communication about what is important to them at that moment.