Design & Technologies Week / Melbourne Design Week Challenge!
To celebrate Design & Technologies Week, we have a speculative design challenge for your students!
| Melbourne Design Week challenges us to design the world we want. So our 2026 challenge will engage your students in speculative design – work which uses design (products, services and environments) to address challenges and opportunities of the future. It's a great way to get your students using the design process and thinking about what preferred futures means to them. |
There are five different challenges available. You can choose the one you like and run it with your whole class, or you could let your students select the one they find the most interesting. Each challenge has a short video, teacher slides and a student design template. You should download the design temple and provide each student with an editable copy to work on. Once you have completed the challenge, you should submit the completed templates as either PDFs or slides in a shared folder with Laura at pl@datta.vic.edu.au by Friday 26 June. The submitted works will be hosted on a new DESIGN THE WORLD YOU WANT* website to demonstrate that Design & Technologies education is preparing our students to become the creative problem solvers that our future needs! |
CHOOSE YOUR CHALLENGE! |
Lunar Living |
Wearable Technologies |
Drone Transportation |
Future Communities |
Home Healthcare |
* By submitting designs, you and your students agree that DATTA Vic has permission to share images openly on our website. Each work will be credited with the student name, school and year level. |
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The approaches outlined in this resource are those of the author and contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of DATTA Vic. While all attempts have been made to align the advice and suggestions with VCAA expectations, the support material has not been verified by VCAA. Authors have acted with all available information from VCAA at the time of publication.
Responsibility for any loss resulting from action or refraining from action in response to the material must be accepted by users. Teachers must refer to the mandatory documents in relation to the study from VCAA, available online and updated every year.
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