Project 10
CYCLE PROJECT 10 2026

Circular Campus to Community

Circular Campus to Community

Long Story, Short

This collaborative and connected circularity-based project brings together RMIT and Merri-bek City Council to deliver knowledge and skills sharing activities, focused on fibre and food systems across the Brunswick campus and wider Merri-bek communities.

What We’re Exploring

The ‘Circular Campus to Community’ (CCC) Project is a collaboration between RMIT University and Merri-bek City Council, which seeks to practically foster just, place-based circularity efforts by delivering activities to connect the RMIT Brunswick campus community with the wider Merri-bek community. This project encourages skills and knowledge sharing, engagement with indigenous knowledge systems and improved circular understanding and practices through a range of experiments, workshops, activations, and events focused on fibre and food systems. The activities will align with five key action streams: Regenerate, Repair, Recycle, Redesign, Rethink.

 

CCC Making Workshops Program

June – November 2026

Wed 17 Jun       5:00–7:00pm       Darn It! Fixing Knitwear Holes

Wed 24 Jun      5:00–7:00pm       My Little Curtain Making Workshop

Wed 1 Jul          5:00–7:00pm       Sashiko Stitching & Denim Repair

Thurs 2 Jul       5:00–7:00pm       Patch Cutting & Stash Sway for Garment Mending

Wed 8 Jul         5:00–7:00pm       Sashiko Stitching & Denim Repair

Wed 8 Jul         5:00–7:00pm       (re)Print Workshop

Wed 15 Jul       5:00–7:00pm       (re)Print Workshop

Mon 25 Aug     5:00–7:00pm       Zero Waste Pattern Making Exploration

Mon 31 Aug      5:00–7:00pm       This Is Not a Shoe – Footwear Deconstruction and Flat-Lay Artwork Workshop

Tues 15 Sept    2:00–4:00pm       Student-Led Community Repair Session

Wed 30 Sept    4:00–6:00pm      Sensory Walk

Wed 11 Nov       5:00–7:00pm       T-Shirt Transformations: Alter/Redesign a T-Shirt

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A person making with fabric and thread.

My Little Curtain Making Workshop

Wed 24 June 2026
5:00pm – 7:00pm

RMIT Maker Space, Building 515, Level 1, Room 005, RMIT Brunswick Campus, 25 Dawson St, Brunswick

$50 per person
$35 per student

Led by Ritika Vohra
RMIT University

Contact:
kiri.delly@rmit.edu.au

Register now

Gather, make and hang your own special sensory curtain!

Join us for to a 2-hour sensory workshop where you will create a small personal curtain featuring a hessian or scrim panel hanging from a found branch. You will stitch, knot and weave with threads and objects, tracing the textures, weights and sensations of what you bring with you inside and outside.

You will come away with a finished creative piece in addition to a new way of thinking about making – using sensation, memory and material as your guide.

No experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to make!

We will provide: Fabrics, threads, tools, embellishments and accessories.

Please bring with you: A small found object or keepsake (eg a pebble, dried flower, button, scrap of fabric) that holds meaning or texture, and a small personal picture that holds memory, place or feeling.

A container of sewing threads.
Hands mending a garment.

Darn It! Fixing Knitwear Holes

Wed 17 June 2026
5:00pm – 7:00pm

The Hanger, Building 516, Level 2, Room 1, RMIT Brunswick Campus, 25 Dawson St, Brunswick

$50 per person
$35 per student

Led by Julia English
RMIT University

Contact:
kiri.delly@rmit.edu.au

Register now

Keen to get your winter warms all ready but you have a hole in your favourite jumper or knit?

Bring your winter woollies or other well-loved knits along to our 2-hour hands-on darning workshop. You will learn basic darning skills and come away with knitwear that is ready to face winter!

Please bring a few clothing items so we can discuss the best starting point and explore solutions for trickier problems. Also, please note, very fine knitwear can be a little delicate for these methods, so we recommend starting with a mid-weight to chunky knit pieces.

We will provide: Yarns, threads, repair, tools/equipment.

Please bring with you: Knitwear with holes (socks, jumpers, scarves) best for mid-weight to chunky knits.

Take-home: ‘Your Darning Basics’ worksheet with 2+ darning methods and video links.

Love your clothes and keen to find ways to extend their lives? Interested in learning how to mend, repair and rework your clothing, supporting a more considered and circular approach to what and how we wear?

Join us for a series of hands-on workshops taking place as part of RMIT University and Merri-bek City Council’s collaborative project: ‘Circular Campus to Community’.

Sessions will be led by experts from RMIT’s School of Fashion & Textiles and College of Vocational Education, and are open to anyone living, working, studying or just visiting Merri-bek!

This Program is a wonderful opportunity to gain circular skills, meet likeminded creatives, and continue to care for your clothes and the planet!

Please note: after these workshops, you will be invited to complete an anonymous online survey. The survey will gather your feedback on the event and your experiences participating and may be used for academic research purposes. Data will only be collected with your consent.

 

 

 

What is the Circular Campus to Community Project?

Merri-bek City Council (MCC) and RMIT have a shared vision to build meaningful connections out into industry, community, and academia to support social, economic, environmental, and cultural benefit and opportunities.

The RMIT x MCC: ‘Circular Campus to Community’ (CCC) Project seeks to practically foster just, place-based circularity efforts. Activity will connect the RMIT Brunswick campus community with the wider Merri-bek community across a range of experiments, workshops, activations, and events, allowing for skills and knowledge sharing, and improved circular understanding and practices.

Over 2026, CCC will deliver a series of collaborative and connected circularity themed programming. Activities will be structured under five streams: Regenerate, Repair, Recycle, Redesign, Rethink, with a focus on textiles creation, repair, and care, through knowledge and skill sharing.

Find more information on all events at placelab.rmit.edu.au

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