Archive of Ordinary Weather

Archive of Ordinary Weather is a participatory design project exploring how nostalgia can connect personal memories of place with climate change and future adaptation. Situated on Bowen Street, at RMIT University's city campus, the project invites students to reflect on everyday experiences and consider what they might miss as environmental conditions shift. Through a guided co-design workshop, participants locate significant places, share memories, and respond to speculative weather scenarios. Using modular physical components, they collaboratively imagine spatial interventions that could help preserve valued activities and experiences in a changing climate. Their creations are then documented and shared through an online archive. By bringing together memory, climate awareness, and collective making, the project aims to make climate adaptation more personal, tangible, and participatory, encouraging people to imagine how familiar places might continue to support meaningful experiences in the future.