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As teachers within the diploma of visual merchandising here at RMIT, we find it imperative for students
to actually engage with industry jobs. We find it very exciting for students to actually
go out to industry, work with clients, have meetings, design, concept..... come back here
to RMIT University and actually produce and manufacture and install under the guidance
of industry and the teachers within the RMIT visual merchandising program.
When Kylie came to us with the brief about getting the students involved, it was very
much... well a lot of it was in collaboration with us, so it was what did we have that we
wanted to get out there. We have six really strong community conservation
campaigns from recycled toilet paper, to recycling phones, to demanding certified sustainable
palm -- a whole range of different issues. And so to be able to get all of them together
in the one project was a challenge, but we actually managed to get six of them really
strong environmental messages out there in this one project.
Initially Kylie our teacher gave us a brief that we then split into smaller groups and
worked on each different campaign that we were given, and we took those developed ideas
to the zoo and we showed Jacqui and Emily the different concepts that we had come up
with so that they could be approved by the zoo and we could go forward with developing
and creating our window displays.
The students that we worked with were so professional, the sort of people that I would expect to
be dealing with in my day to day job.
It was fantastic. The students were really responsive and really open and really interested
in what we wanted to get out of the brief, and really great to work with, really fast
to come back to, and it was a really pleasant experience the whole thing.
With Industry projects such as the Zoos Victoria that we've just completed with the students....it
really gets them work ready after completing the diploma of visual merchandising.
They're very enthusiastic, very passionate, but the most important thing is they're confident
and ready to go out to the workforce.
Loved the outcome of the window. I'd definitely work with RMIT again and we
hope that in the future we can do more work particularly on the window display with them.