(Daily) Delight~Disrupt (DDD) is a new initiative at UNSW dedicated to igniting ecocultural change through creative disruptions and restorative practices.
DDD's mission is to transform everyday actions into gratifying experiences that reconnect people with each other and their environment. We encourage you to take up or create your own playful moments designed to inspire restorative living and social harmony with:
✨ Minimalism Mondays: Creative and fun acts minimizing consumption and waste - spend less, enjoy more, at no cost to you or the planet.
🌳Tree Hugging Tuesdays: Reconnect and let nature recharge you.
🌍 Way Finding Wednesdays: Reimagine and relish how we move within this big world.
🙏 Thankful Thursdays: Let's bliss out. Lean into gratitude for Earth and each other.
🍽 Feast Fridays: We all eat. Let's cook up delight beyond the meal.
🌿 Seek Your Own Adventure Saturdays: This is your chance to improvise, create your own, and unlock your imagination. Sky's the limit.
🌺Screen-Free Sundays: Unplug to reclaim your attention and time.
Try it out and be a co-creator of DDD! You can learn more about it on the DDD Instagram channel.
How to get involved
Choose a day that speaks to you and try out a playful moment for that day. You can do this anytime, anywhere!
During Mental Health Month, DDD has partnered with the following UNSW campus entities for you to take part in planned playful and restorative activities each themed day of the week.
Minimalism Monday
Free stationery located at QUAD 1001A, the Quadrangle, Floor L1 (E15).
Open Monday to Friday, 10am-4pm during terms.
Free bike repairs and workshops at the Michael Crouch Innovation Centre, Makerspace.
Open Mondays 10am-12pm.
Local, volunteer-run, not-for-profit, ethical food co-operative located in Blockhouse at UNSW Kensington. BYO containers, pay by weight groceries, weekly organic fruit & veg boxes & bread. Volunteering opportunities include weekly shop shifts, content creation and event assistants.
Current opening hours: Tuesday 11am-5pm, Thursday 9am-7pm and Saturday 10am-4pm.
Tree Hugging Tuesday
Tuesday workshops (12pm-4pm) at the Urban Garden at the Village Green.
Join the Spring Garden Bee and World Food Day Celebration on 15 October (12pm–2pm) at the Northeast corner of the Barker Street Car Park, under the ramp.
What’s on the agenda?
- Composting 101: Learn the benefits of composting to create rich organic matter from food waste and discover how you can start composting yourself.
- Help install an in-ground composter in our garden bed.
- Plant summer seedlings and seeds to boost our garden.
- Engage in a conversation about this year World Food Day’s theme 'Right to Food for a Better Life and a Better Future' and learn how you can make a difference.
To book your place, email [email protected].
Way Finding Wednesday
World Mental Health Day
Get involved in World Mental Health Day at UNSW Kensington on 9 October from 11am-3pm on the Helen Maguire Lawn.
Every Wednesday in October between 12pm-1pm at Mathews Arcade Food Court.
Thankful Thursday
Gratitude Wall
Visit the Gratitude Wall every Thursday from 2pm-5pm throughout the month of October at Library Study Lounge, Main Library (level 2, near entrance).
THRIVE Thursdays @ UNSW College
Every Thursday from 12pm -5pm at UNSW College.
Free lunch - Producers Picnic from 12pm-4pm at the Urban Garden, Village Green.
Feast Fridays
Movie Club Events @ UNSW College
The UNSW College Movie Club is hosting special movie screenings on Fridays for Mental Health Month in Room E131 at UNSW College from 3:30pm-5:30pm.
Free for all students to join and watch. Come by with your friends to grab some snacks and drinks, sit back and enjoy. No registrations needed.
What's on:
- Friday 18 October: Inside Out
- Friday 25 October: Inside Out 2
Located near Gate 2, High Street (between UNSW Fitness & Aquatic and IGA).
To attend, you are required to register for the following time slots:
- Monday, 2pm-4pm
- Wednesday, 2pm-4pm
- Friday, 12pm-2pm
However you decide to delightfully disrupt, if you on social media, we also invite you to post your playful moments (#dailydelightdisrupt + # theme day, e.g. #feastfridays) to welcome others to be part of DDD as it starts at UNSW and spreads around the world! DDD is co-generated by all of us to reconnect and manifest the regenerative society and environment we want to be part of – and, delightfully, we all do that in our unique ways.
DDD partnerships:
- UNSW ADA (Daily) Delight~Disrupt team (Environment & Society Group, School of Humanities & Languages)
- UNSW Health Promotion Unit
- Arc (Food Hub and Sustainability)
- Thoughtful Foods
- Urban Growers
- UNSW College
- UNSW Library