About
Mapping Our Futures is a participatory art initiative that uses storytelling, mapping, and creative expression to imagine the future of shared spaces. The project brings together community members, artists, researchers, and local organizations to collect experiences and visions through multimedia submissions.
Browse the map, discover creative stories, and submit your own contribution to help us build a collaborative portrait of imagination and place.
Our team
Michael Chew
Project Director
Michael is a freelance participatory designer and social ecologist whose practice-led work explores creative, participatory processes in social and environmental contexts, with a focus on storytelling across cultural and geographic borders. His design-based action-research PhD explored how participatory photography and other creative practices can inspire youth environmental behaviour change across cities in Bangladesh, China and Australia, and he recently completed a Rotary Peace Fellowship at Chulalongkorn University investigating distributed co-design processes with youth and environmental storytelling.
Wendy Hopkins
Community Engagement Manager
Sarah Taylor
Community Engagement Manager
Sarah has a solo and community arts background with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She is passionate about listening to the diverse and nuanced needs of both land, people and place. She is excited to practice creative and playful ways to explore these needs with Mapping Our Futures.
Kirsten Moegerlein
Design Manager
Kirsten Moegerlein is a designer and community builder, living in Yapeen outside of Castlemaine. She is interested in using creative methods and tools to bring to life shared visions for the future and pathways for action in the present. She has a PhD in Participatory Design and loves to garden and cook in her spare time.
Eunice Rigo
Digital Manager
Eunice is creative technologist and data analyst based in Castlemaine. Her work explores the intersection of data, storytelling, and geospatial design, with a focus on making complex information more intuitive and engaging. She is particularly interested in how new technology can support participatory futures thinking, story-based data collection, and more creative ways of working with qualitative insights whilst supporting approaches that honour diverse knowledge systems and help communities imagine alternative futures.