Secondary School City Walks & Seminars

Every year Urban Seed speaks to thousands of school students, leading interactive walks around the city and running creative workshops that address homelessness, addiction and community involvement.  Schools can book individual sessions, and we are also able to combine several sessions over one or more days as part of a retreat day or city experience programme.

Urban Seed’s attraction is its hands on experience with issues of homelessness, marginalisation and street culture that allows us to share anecdotes and stories that bring urban issues alive for students, help break down stereotypes and promote consideration of the risks associated with alcohol and drug abuse and wider cultural issues.

See below for a list of walks & seminars on offer.



For enquiries & bookings information click here. 



Graffiti Melbourne

Melbourne is world renowned for graffiti and street art. Graffiti, traditionally the ‘art’ of the outsider, has often been a generator of political and social change, and has become a big part of Melbourne’s urban landscape. In this walk, we will take look at some of Melbourne’s best known spots for graffiti, and discuss its social implications, reflect on the messages and ideas being portrayed, whilst exploring Urban Seed’s work amongst the poor and marginalised of Melbourne.

This walk costs $350 (plus GST) for a group of up to 30 students. The fees for our walks support the work of Urban Seed and are necessary to help cover our costs, however we do not want them to be prohibitive. Please contact us if you would like to discuss this further. For enquiries & bookings information click here.



The 'City is our Home' Walk


  • Stereotypes of homelessness
  • Inclusion and exclusion
  • Different spaces in the city and around our building
  • Credo Café
  • Our responses to the people of our neighbourhood
  • Personal response
  • Home
  • Dealing with reality

The 'City is our Home' Walk invites students to experience Melbourne’s CBD from a different perspective. As we make our way through a number of spaces we invite observations and tell stories to get beyond the usual stereotypes of different groups of people in our neighbourhood. We contrast the front door of our building at the Paris end of Collins Street, with the Baptist Place laneway out the back where we host community meals in Credo Café. We explore some of Urban Seed’s responses to issues of safety, homelessness and drug use through building community connectedness. We also raise important questions about how people are included and excluded, the concept of ‘home’, and how students might begin to respond personally to these issues in their own backyard.  

This walk costs $350 (plus GST) for a group of up to 30 students. The fees for our walks support the work of Urban Seed and are necessary to help cover our costs, however we do not want them to be prohibitive. Please contact us if you would like to discuss this further. For enquiries & bookings information click here.


Searching for Home: An introduction to Homelessness in the City

    •     Definitions, causes, cures for homelessness
    •     Interactive, extend what students know
    •     Confront stereotypes, telling stories
    •     Homelessness is not just about having a roof over your head, it’s about having a home

    The 'Searching for Home' workshop delves into many of the questions and stereotypes about homelessness in Melbourne. Using images, film, and some provocative statements, students discuss and debate the issues around definitions, causes and forms of assistance in the search for home. Through stories and activities, we invite students to extend their understandings of this complex issue, and to consider not only government or business engagement but their personal response. 

    This workshop costs $200 (plus GST) for a group of up to 30 students. The fees for our workshops support the work of Urban Seed and are necessary to help cover our costs, however we do not want them to be prohibitive. Please contact us if you would like to discuss this further. For enquiries & bookings information click here.



    Who's the addict? Drugs, addiction and life


    In this seminar we look at the nature of addiction, by asking and unpacking the following questions:

    What is addiction?
    Are there different kinds of addiction?
    What leads someone to become addicted to something?
    Can there ever be such a thing as a good addiction? 

    We explore the nature of drug and alcohol use by teenagers and general society, and ask what might lead someone from experimentation to addiction. In turn, we look back at our own behavior - might we have addictive tendencies ourselves? We unpack what we find hard to deal with in our own lives, and discuss what options and choices we have to deal with those issues.  

    These questions are explored through the framework of Urban Seed’s work with homeless and drug addicted people, where community love and friendship is lived out.


    For enquires, costs & bookings information click here.