Teens create a Cooler Future
Webisodes in Details
Documenting the Journey in Six Parts
Our students’ collages, drawings, photos, and videos will be used to create film and education resources.
CONNECT WITH THE FUTURE
Meet the next generation of consumers as they begin to question their impact on the planet. When it comes to food and fashion, what about the waste behind their choices? What of food miles, land fill, plastic marine debris, ocean garbage patches?
BECOME AWARE
As a new vision for a waste free society becomes clearer, wild and wonderful artists, costume designers, hair stylists, recyclers, fashionistas, and environmentalists visit and inspire our students to catwalk across the cutting edge of food and fashion.
MASHING IT UP
Everything becomes a resource – from cigarette butts to cling wrap. How will they stage and promote their trashion parades? What messages and ideas will be communicated with the set, lighting, program and posters, soundscape and trashion couture?
CONSTRUCTION
Planning and putting their show together, the teams divide into groups: hat and garment makers, event producers, communications, graphics, video music and audio, presenters, models and artists.
PRESENTATION
Staging the event at school, our students reveal their wild and wonderful creations to teachers, families, supportive local businesses and media. They make a video of the event to upload to YouTube. Who will win the Mash It Up! Award for most hits and views?!
SHOW TIME!
The big reveal! After a trial run at home base, the students present their journey at the Youth Eco Summit. They stage their Trashion Parades in front of their peers, mentors, industry experts and mainstream media. WOW! Who will win the Best Messaging, and Most Resourceful awards?
Future Resources
Developing the Mash It Up! Message
PHASE 1 -
proof of concept
- We start small in 2018, working with two schools to test the project, analyse the impacts, and consult with our inspiring teachers, mentors and partners.
- By making the project a competition, we attract aspirational teachers and students keen to make their mark. The pilot schools compete to win the Best Messaging, Most Resourceful and Best Trashion awards.
- Inviting artists, designers and small businesses making a living from recycling resources to visit our schools, shows the huge potential for new careers opening up as Australia develops a circular economy.
- Using YouTube to share their trashion parades on social media, our Trashionistas take their message to a potentially world wide audience.
- We create a documentary film record of the student’s journey which will be expanded in 2019 with interviews with inspirational mentors, teachers and students, into a short documentary film, and webisodes for the Waste Not website.
PHASE 2 -
going mainstream
In 2019 we invite more schools to enter Mash It Up! By submitting their Trashion YouTube videos they are in with a chance to reach the finals at the Youth Eco Summit in September.
We introduce an internship and work experience model to the project, connecting students to businesses and creative enterprises flourishing in the circular economy.
In 2020 we create the Mash It Up! Green Kitchen for WASTE NOT – inviting aspiring high school chefs and stylists to create a planet friendly cooking segment showcasing Performance Boosting Snacks, Mum’s Night Off, Mates For Pizza, and Impress Your Date menus using Waste Not principals. Load it to YouTube and your high school team could reach the finals at the Youth Eco Summit 2020!
