DREAM DESIGN
DREAM DESIGN
Dream Design provides space and ongoing support for young mob to design their dream education system from a position of self-determination. Through our regional workshops and national summits, we will support a growing collective of young mob with on-going capacity building opportunities and a networks to progress their education priorities.
DREAM DESIGN
COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT
2024
As treaty processes unfold, it is essential for our youth to have a voice in shaping the educational landscape. Our first ever National Dream Design Summit served as a platform for delegates from across the country to express their cultural, social, and economic aspirations, ensuring that education aligns with our communities’ values and needs.
Throughout the Summit, delegates engaged in meaningful discussions, sharing their individual learning journeys and exploring the historical and political context of education. Together, we reimagined a future where our learning systems are designed by us, for us.
A key outcome of the Summit was the formation of the Dream Design Collective Agreement 2024. This agreement reflects our shared vision and outlines our starting place, which we refer to as Our Current Context, and articulates Our Dream Design—the educational future we aspire to
create.
JOIN OUR DREAM DESIGN ACTION COLLECTIVE!
The purpose of the Dream Design Action Collective is to create a space where young mob can come together to connect, reflect, collectively and engage and be supported in capacity and skill building opportunities.
We are using Discord as our primary base for connection where mob can yarn and collaborate with each other. We have fortnightly check in yarns called 'collective connects' which are informal drop in connect sessions as well as monthly deep dive yarns with a range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experts.
ABOUT DREAM DESIGN ACTION COLLECTIVE
THE PROCESS
Fill out our Sign Up Form
If criteria are met (You are mob and aged from 18 to 35), we will email you with the invite to the discord server
Please introduce yourself and explore the channels and connect!
WHO CAN JOIN THE DREAM DESIGN ACTION COLLECTIVE:
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander young people between the ages of 18-35
Passionate about education and shaping learning systems that meets the cultural, economic and social needs as a community and Nation(s).
BACKING YOUNG MOB TO DESIGN OUR FUTURE LEARNING SYSTEMS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been historically excluded from having agency and self-determination over their learning systems. In spite of this, our mob have actively resisted exclusion by creating our own independent schools, established education consultative bodies and have routinely shown up at the school gates.
Continuing to build on this legacy requires us to be proactively in creating space for young mob to dream, imagine, create and collectively strategise towards our own self-determined learning futures.
This work builds on NIYEC’s flagship program, Education of Our Design.
Through our workshops young mob have the opportunity to connect and learn about:
Our Rights to Education
History of Indigenous Education
Education in Treaty and Nation-Building Processes
Co-designing future self-determined learning systems.
“THE PASSION UP NORTH HERE IS TO REMIND COMMUNITY THAT US YOUNG PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO TAKE OUR FUTURE IN OUR OWN HANDS”
— Anthony Wotton. Wulgurukaba , FNQ DREAM DESIGN DELEGATE
