In May, the Think+DO Tank was thrilled to have launched the SHOUT! Young Women with Voice program for the Australian Women’s Coalition in Bankstown, Liverpool, Coffs Harbour, Wollongong and the ACT. We are working with women aged between 18 – 30 …
The Think+DO Tank’s Director, Jane Stratton, created and led the How Big Are Your Dreams? program until the end of 2011. The program is designed to support a small group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander high school students in …
POWERPLAY (June – November 2011) Tanya Owen Community Capacity Building Officer, Parramatta Council “Parramatta City Council’s Community Capacity Building Team sought the development and implementation of a pilot training program for supporting active citizenship in disadvantaged local communities, and we …
We all have conversations that change our minds or that cause us to pause and to reflect on things, a conversation that affects us personally. Maybe a new idea is planted in our mind. Or we are challenged by a …
Talkback! is a digital media arts project that has trained young people in Bankstown in a new skill while giving them the opportunity to tell a story about “belonging” to a broader public. The three works were launched publicly in …
In 2008, Jane Stratton, Director of the Think+DO Tank, was the Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers in Sydney. She developed an innovative program for Indigenous youth in the Greater Sydney Area called How Big Are …
The Think+DO Tank proposed a series of consultations with high school students in the Bankstown Local Government Area for the Bankstown City Council. The workshops were carried out between 1 September – 30 November 2009. We worked with over 250 …
Trading Places is a soundpiece of young people’s connections to Bankstown. Trading Places is installed in a custom-built cut out screen that lets people inhabit a stereotyped image of a young person in the Bankstown area even while those stereotypes …
How might students who are just embarking on their passage through high school ensure they have the choice of a university education? The Think+DO Tank was retained by a Sydney university to create engagement strategies for high school students in …
Do the stories that each of us carry around with us matter? Are they merely distracting noise in our heads, or something that might allow us to connect with other people? At the Think+DO Tank, we put stories at the …