September 2017
In an attempt to leave our legacy, more then just as the founding members of BCII:Connect - first innovative community at UTS, we wanted to ensure that it transcends our time and many future communities to come.
A culture here at university can change every 4 years - students, teachers and ideas rotate in and out. Wonderfully complex and ever-fresh. Our community is never the same - so we should never treat ourselves as such. We don’t abide by the same rules as the other societies on campus. We don’t even play by the same rules.
It was our initial intention to define how BCII: Connect will transform to become a fully-fledged faculty society ~ one that houses and engages our new friends in the BTi and beyond. As a part of this process we sought input, advice and leadership from the full spectrum of FTDi – from both students and faculty staff members.
The first iteration of our student community humbly served our community at the time... Now in 2017, our community has outgrown the original plan and we have a fresh new Faculty and degree cohorts to consider.
We are working to refocus and reimagine the ways in which our student organisation can reflect and amplify the values of the Transdisciplinary Faculty.
We created an output through a dual-medium - a workshop that ran to understand what has changed in the community since the conception of the society, and an overarching Playbook to provide insight into the outcomes of the points discussed in the workshop. This is our legacy to leave behind. A living, breathing collection of tools and ideas.
We knew that the immediate value of the Playbook and the Workshop would lie in its accessibility, framework for being adaptive, being recognised glocally, and to be accommodating to all in the growing FTDi community. The output had to create a suitable framework for reassessment and development for the future – adapt to the growing capacity of FTDi, industry engagement, new staff, and the ever-changing climate of the university context.
