This case study explores the collaborative design of SCEGGS Darlinghurst’s 2025–2026 Reconciliation Action Plan—a project guided by care, clarity, and cultural integrity. With contributions from the Student RAP Committee and oversight from Aunty Viv Freeman and Head of School Jenny Allum, the project wove student artwork, refined messaging, and visual storytelling into a living document that reflects the school’s genuine commitment to reconciliation.

This project transformed an unused hoarding wall in Canberra Centre into a vibrant statement of youth voice and social impact. Led by young women from Lanyon High School, the mural was developed through an expressive typography workshop and completed in collaboration with YWCA Canberra, the ACT Government’s TCCS Street Art Program, and Mura Lanyon Youth and Community Centre. The project showcased how underutilised public space can become a canvas for empowerment, connection, and youth-led storytelling.

How do you teach consent without sounding clinical, awkward, or out of touch? This youth-led campaign with SHFPACT and the ACT Youth Advisory Council used humour, illustration, and co-design to create a bold new toolkit—centred on zines, posters, and real conversations that model what consent actually sounds like.

This co-created youth street art project for International Women’s Day explores gender equity, mental wellbeing, and creative expression including a keynote from guest speaker and mural focus - Australian Olympian, Caroline Buchanan.

This co-designed school mural explores themes of inclusivity and belonging, both for the student voice of Seaview High School, and for the broader public community. School representatives including the SRC Leadership Team were led through a design-thinking process workshop on site to find our visual communication.

A youth-led public art project exploring how every day conversations can shape identity, gender norms and expectations. This project brought sustainability, activism, and local partnerships into a public space exhibition for Surface Street Art Festival, Canberra ACT.