intellectual friendships with lecturers

When I first asked Carmen about her learning experiences in Footscray, she told me that once she was driving out of the uni car park late at night and two burly guys tried to tip her car over. She had to drive off very fast!

learning experiences???????

the lecturers were accessible, you could actually have a coffee with them.

Carmen says: I had a really good experience at VU. Because it didn't have this high reputation there wasn't that feeling of a separation between teachers and students. The lecturers were accessible so you could actually have coffee with them and intellectual friendships. For some of the kids in the west, they would have been the first intellectual discussions that we had had.

Message in a cup

Messages and stories of Learning in Footscray are collected and then written onto the insides of one hundred blue cups. The cups are placed in Footscray during Blu-scray events to be found by people and taken home. 

BluScray is a collaboration between Victoria University and Maribyrnong City Council

 as part of Footscray University Town and the VU Centenary

https://www.vu.edu.au/footscray-university-town/bluscray-blue-footscray