Guiding Lights: Students Co-creating the Campus Experience

SESSION OVERVIEW

What are some innovative approaches to fostering meaningful student engagement on campus? How can existing spaces be transformed into vibrant hubs of creative expression and connection?
This proposed presentation and workshop discussion will explore student co-creation as a means to transform the campus experience. Drawing insights from RMIT Creative Student Life, a program which functions as a live laboratory for testing new student engagement modalities, the session will highlight methods from three case-study projects: RMIT Public Art Trail, Art for Social Change, and Creative Play. Through these examples, the session will examine how ethical engagement, reciprocal skill-sharing, and expanded forms of pedagogy are essential for creating personalised and meaningful campus environments for students.

Session Outcomes

This showcase invites colleagues to explore these innovations and consider applying them to their own work areas, as well as to discuss potential future collaborations across universities and the exchange of similar case-study examples from their own work within a workshop setting.

PRESENTER

Lynda Roberts is the Senior Advisor of Creative Communities at RMIT Student Life, a program dedicated to fostering student creativity through self-expression, social connection, and transformative campus experiences. With a background that spans over twenty years across local government, tertiary education, and creative industries, Roberts brings expertise as an interdisciplinary program leader, co-creation specialist, and artist. She holds a PhD exploring public art practices and is a sessional academic at the RMIT School of Art.