The Problem We Can't Unsee

Australia spends $1.1 million per child, per year to lock them up.
The "success rate"? 15.5%.
That means 84.5% of kids reoffend within 12 months of release.

Meanwhile, community programs succeed at 78% — and cost 95% less.

Every statistic represents a child whose future hangs in the balance.
We can’t unknow what we know about what works.

What Is CONTAINED?

CONTAINED is not another awareness campaign with sad statistics on posters.

It’s an immersive experience built from shipping containers — transformation chambers that make the invisible visible and the abstract tangible.

We didn’t just design this. We built it. With our hands.

• Nicholas personally constructed the majority of the rooms, wired the electronics that make fluorescent despair tangible, and embedded the technology that bridges experience to action.

• Benjamin followed paper trails that lead to kids in cages, transforming data into moral urgency.

Why Shipping Containers?

Because metaphors matter.

Young people in Australia’s justice system are literally contained — in cells, in systems, in cycles of harm.

By creating physical spaces that embody this containment, we invite people to step inside the experience, to feel what we’ve learned, to understand what must change.

The Revolution Happens at the Intersection

Revolution doesn’t happen in boardrooms.
It happens when builders, dreamers, and survivors converge at the intersection of:

• Moral urgency — We know this is wrong

• Practical possibility — We know what works

• Evidence-based action — We have the proof

CONTAINED bridges experience to policy, practice to transformation.
It’s infrastructure for change — not charity for problems.

What’s Inside CONTAINED?

Room 1: The Numbers Room

Walk into a space filled with the data we can’t ignore.
Feel the weight of $1.1 million being spent per child while communities solve the problem for $58,000.

Room 2: The Voices Room

Hear directly from young people who’ve lived through the system.
Their stories — unfiltered, powerful, unforgettable.

Room 3: The Solutions Room

Discover the 150+ community programs already working across Australia.
See the evidence. Meet the people making change happen.

Room 4: The Action Room

Your turn.
Connect with programs, support solutions, join the movement.

This Is Not a Gallery Piece

CONTAINED is a campaign — designed to move you:
from awareness to action,
from understanding to engagement,
from outrage to organization.

We’re building infrastructure for transformation:

• JusticeHub Platform: Connecting young people to opportunities, communities to resources, evidence to action

• Community Partnerships: Amplifying grassroots solutions that already work

• Systems Advocacy: Using data and stories to shift policy and funding

Join Us

CONTAINED creates pathways from awareness to action.
We’re not asking you to feel bad about the problem — we’re inviting you to be part of the solution.

The Builders

Benjamin Knight — Co-founder, A Curious Tractor

The one who stood in Madrid’s sunset-colored rooms and felt the weight of Australia’s failure in his bones.
Following paper trails that lead to kids in cages, transforming data into moral urgency.

Nicholas Marchesi — Co-founder, A Curious Tractor

The hands that built revolution.
A strategic architect who transformed shipping containers into transformation chambers — personally constructing the majority of the rooms, wiring the electronics, and embedding the technology that bridges experience to action.

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#YouthJustice #CONTAINED #SystemsChange #CommunityPrograms #EvidenceBasedAdvocacy #ACuriousTractor #ImmersiveExperience #TransformationNotPunishment

Revolution doesn’t happen in boardrooms. It happens when builders, dreamers, and survivors decide that what we know demands what we do.