Hi, I'm Dean Global Futures in Humanities here at Curtin University. 

And we've been working on a Global Futures Challenge, which is entitled After War. 

And the students have come from a range of different disciplines to work together in small groups to respond to the sorts of challenges that a country might find itself dealing with in a post-conflict situation.

For me, my background as an electrical engineer, I don't get involved much interacting with people. A lot of it is around individual work. 

This is an opportunity to go into the humanitarian side of things, interacting with people, listening to different guest speakers. It's a different experience and opportunity.

The highlight for me definitely was the art gallery and the exhibitions there. 

Being able to see the histories of these conflicts and how it's affected the people really solidified in my mind that the work we are doing, even if it is based on a fictional country, is really important in raising awareness.

And it's been really good to take students through the exhibition to be able to think about how art can deal with the legacies, the aftermath of conflict. But this is a really great way of doing learning, but also learning outside of the classroom and coming to spaces like this. 

Something that's definitely stood out for me over the course of the After War challenge is the vast experience that was delivered from the industry professionals, people from all over the world who've participated in all sorts of organisations were able to come down and really demonstrate their knowledge and their wealth of learning through their initiatives and their programs. 

And being able to understand their point of views and the stories that you never hear of coming from Perth, and you realise how privileged we are to have the safety and security that we do.

Conflicts are resolved when people move on from the war and say what's next? So after war is a really critical moment, and it's a moment where we say, look, there are differences, but there has to be a future. And what does that look like? What happens at the start of the war during the conflict? 

And whilst it is immensely important, it's equally important to know how to get out of the confrontation and how to engage in post-war construction and rebuilding reconciliation, the healing process. 

This is the beauty of challenge-based education, that students are set real world problems that they themselves can respond to, and what they've produced has basically met the Curtin motto, make tomorrow better.