RMIT Creative - INSTA

RMIT students living with disability invite you to learn about their language & culture. 🥄

At the We Belong Roundtables, d/Deaf and Disabled students expressed feelings of belonging when allies in their life were aware of disabled concepts and terminology. There was a shared wish for disabled language to become common vocabulary on-campus.

✏️ Here are three words that students might use to express their lived experience and what those words mean to them. 🌥

️ Stay posted! We’ll be sharing more with you soon. ⏱

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 😎 📅𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟏-𝟐𝟕 

Celebrate designers this week who are championing the future of inclusive and accessible fashion worldwide - on and off the runway. ♿️ 
 
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒐𝒏?  

Adaptive Fashion blends fashion and function to design clothing & apparel that meets the needs of individuals with physical or sensory disabilities. 👔 Using the principles of universal design, the adaptive fashion market is skyrocketing to encompass a diverse range of needs and personalities.  

🧵 Disability-led companies and designers are at the forefront of this fashion movement.  

The designers in this post are re-imagining denim for wheelchairs users, re-defining the future of fashion-forward medical-grade garments, and breaking the binaries of size, age, and gender. The future of fashion is for every body.  

📣 Attention! Applications close 21 October!  

🌈 Are you... 
- Passionate about the arts & creative industry 🖼️️ 
- Time management heroes ⏳ 
- People with stellar interpersonal skills ⭐ 

We want YOU! 

2 Roles available: 

1️⃣ Associate Creative Producer: Comms – Love social media, digital storytelling & graphic design? This one's for you! 🎨💻  

2️⃣ Associate Creative Producer: Projects – A pro at organizing and supporting emerging artists? Step right in! 🎭🎉 

Link in bio🔗 
Join the RMIT Creative team 🎓✨ 

🌟 Work with us! 🌟 

We're hiring! Join the RMIT Creative team 🎓✨ 

🖊 Roles available:  

1️⃣ Associate Creative Producer: Comms – Love social media, digital storytelling & graphic design? This one's for you! 🎨💻 

 2️⃣ Associate Creative Producer: Projects – A pro at organizing and supporting emerging artists? Step right in! 🎭🎉 

🌈 Our dream humans: 

Passionate about the arts & creative industry 🖼️️ 

Time management heroes ⏳ 

People with stellar interpersonal skills ⭐ 

📅 Applications close 21 October! Link in bio🔗 
Ready? Let’s go! 🚀 

What happens when your body needs to rest in a city that’s made for hustle and bustle? Welcome to Metropolis Stage 3.

Multidisciplinary artist and performer Caitlin Dear inhabited Metropolis over two days, their tracks and marks making the final layers of paint, gold and white.

With the first and final marks made by disabled bodies immersed inside the installation, the artist is foregrounding the importance of lived experiences in the designing of our urban environments.

Is your aura severely deficient?
Brain rot and bed rot at critical levels? No fear!! 

Nurture your mind, body & spirit at RMIT Wellbeing Expo 🥰
Because you're worth it!

It's giving......
 
💃Some of your fave student-created artworks PLUS.... we are hard-launching some new boos! 😘

🧘‍♀️Meditation, sound healing & massages 💆‍♂️

💅Complimentary care pack, free merch, and hot drinkies on arrival ☕

🧠Actually learn practical strategies that support positive mental health & get info about the free resources available to you. 🤯

Did someone say wellbeing slay??

The low-down:

📆18 Sep 2024
⏰ 11:30 AM - 02:30 PM
📍 RMIT Multifaith & Wellbeing Centre, Building 47, 8 Orr St, Carlton

You're busy? No stress - we've got online options! Link in bio 👨‍💻

Hi, my name is Coco Jones and I am a multidisciplinary artist living with disabilities and practicing in Melbourne/Naarm. My artworks are predominately formed by my lived experiences. I engage in sculpture, performance, installation, sound and video. My art practice is highly symbolic, and I often perform with my sculptures, interacting through sensorial processes.

I am currently studying Master of Art Management at RMIT University and have an interest in curation, disability advocacy and art events. In my spare time I volunteer for RMIT Creatives, enjoy crocheting, attending live music events and reading.

📣 Takeover Alert! 🎉 Tomorrow, we’re excited to have super creative Coco Jones for Takeover. Follow along as Coco shares her day, insights, and perhaps some creative tips with us!

What happens when you do research about the accessibility of a place, but then, when you arrive the information was wrong? Welcome to Metropolis Stage 2, take a map, and try to navigate the obstacles.

When encouraged to reflect on this experience, here’s some thoughts from student participants:

“I realized that you can’t build a city out of seeing one perspective... We need a better overview of the whole area to connect places with each other instead of making single places accessible and claiming the whole area to be, even though the accessible areas
aren’t connected.”

“If people have to use so much energy just to get from point A to B, their capacity to create, think, build, etc is undeniably reduced. We need new ideas and creating an inclusive society frees up capacity and time for individuals to focus on innovation.”

“I feel like I have taken my mobility for granted. My takeaway is to think more inclusively in my everyday life.”

“As a crim/pysch student this allows me to think more about how disability/mental health intersect.”

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Hi! I’m Kate (she/her). I’m in my final year of a Master of Fine Art at RMIT. You can often find me hanging out in the art studio, trying out creative ideas and getting messy experimenting with different art materials.  

I enjoy high-intensity workouts and weight-lifting sessions. I also like to let loose and have a boogie on the dance floor, but I am just as happy to be a hermit watching documentaries and binge-watching a series at home. 

You can find me .driscoll.art.journal 
 
📣 Takeover Coming Up! 🎉 Tomorrow, the amazing Kate will be taking over our Instagram stories. Join Kate for a behind-the-scenes look at her creative magic. Don’t miss it! 
 

🙋🏻 “𝑯𝒆𝒚, 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏?”

Language about identity and disability is evolving.

RMIT uses 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧-𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐞 to describe people with disability, while acknowledging that many people with disability prefer to use 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞.

Many who prefer identity-first language may think of their disability as a key part of their identity. A preference for identity first language can indicate that the person wishes to:

• show their connection to Disabled community️ & identity 🌻
• demonstrate their Disability pride ❤️💛🤍💙💚
• emphasize the Social Model of Disability ♿️
If you’re not sure what someoalways ask! It is not considered impolite to ask what your friend prefers. 🫶

You may notice that many creative organisations, such as Arts Access Victoria, have begun using identity first language in response to the Social Model of Disability.

What is the Social Model of Disability??? We’ll get into that in a future post 🔍