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This is Not a Shoe at RMIT University

  • RMIT University 25 Dawson Street Brunswick, Victoria, 3056 Australia (map)

On the 31st August 2026, the This is Not a Shoe workshop will be taking place as part of the Circular Campus to Community project hosted by PlaceLab on RMIT University’s Brunswick Campus in Naarm, Melbourne:

  • 5pm - 7pm

  • $50 per ticket

  • Building 513, Level 2, Room 5
    RMIT Brunswick Campus, 25 Dawson St Brunswick VIC 3056,
    (Naarm, Melbourne)

Tickets here

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.

This is Not a Shoe at CCC - 31st August 2026

Have a pair of shoes you no longer wear but can’t bring yourself to throw away? Have they had their last outing but still carry too much meaning to go to landfill?

Come along to this expert-led hands-on workshop, where you will deconstruct a treasured pair of shoes and arrange the components into a commemorative flat-lay artwork to keep and display.

Along the way, you’ll discover how shoes are actually made, the materials and labour that go into creating them, and the sustainability challenges connected to our current footwear choices and consumption habits.

Join this reflective, creative experience turning a meaningful object into something new and change how you see footwear forever.

We will provide: Tools, materials, safety demonstration. Please bring with you: One significant pair of shoes no longer worn.

Additional info: Over 18s only due to sharp tools.

Led by Alex Sherlock & Pennie Jagiello, RMIT University

Contact: yassie.samie@rmit.edu.au

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This is Not a (tiny) Shoe - Footwear Memento Workshop