Climate Aware Creative Practices Network Australia About the Climate Aware Creative Practices Network (CACP<\/span>) Australia.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Who we are:<\/b><\/p>\n We are a nation-wide alliance of creative arts educators, researchers, and practitioners.<\/p>\n We are working together to deepen our engagement with the challenges posed by climate change.<\/p>\n We are leaders within our own institutions, and we come together to share knowledge and strengthen our capacity to act, make, and teach ethically through the climate crisis.<\/p>\n Our core business:<\/b><\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To foster creative practices that are aware of and respond to the challenges of climate change;<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To centre Indigenous knowledge in climate-aware practice and pedagogy;<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To actively participate in climate justice;<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To understand the role of the creative arts in contributing to both issues and solutions pertaining to sustainability (for example, the environmental impacts of producing and presenting work in public).<\/p>\n Membership:<\/b><\/p>\n The\u00a0CACP<\/span>\u00a0Network was formed in 2023 at a workshop hosted by Monash University\u2019s Faculty of Art Design & Architecture. Our members meet regularly to discuss approaches to teaching about the climate crisis, share knowledge and resources, and work on specific projects. We always welcome new members from Australian universities and TAFE creative arts schools. In addition to tenured academic staff, we welcome membership from casual and sessional academics, as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students.<\/p>\n A Decolonial Design History Educators Network As an intersectional design platform, the Decolonial Design History Educators Network<\/em> strives to be a home for histories, perspectives, and practices of design that have been\u2014and still often remain\u2014 underrepresented within dominant design dialogues and University curriculums within Australia and across the Asia-Pacific region. We see this network as a hybrid between an online resource and a learning community, to co-learn and co-share between educators teaching design history. Firstly, we seek to build an online space to The Inclusive Design Project (IDP)<\/em> The Inclusive Design Project (IDP) is a web platform encouraging design students from all disciplines around Australia to practice inclusive design through the acknowledgment and understanding of intersectionality and empathy. Be it nationality, gender, age and religion, disabilities, ethnicity, socio economic status and geographic location, the key objective of the IDP will be to propose briefs to students that address problems of inequities in our society. The IDP will do this through connecting students with industry, community and other academic institutions through online resources, recordings, and live workshops. These will expose the students to user-centered design and research methods and directly engage them with diverse users.<\/p>\n The initial launch of the IDP in 2022 will focus on the problem of de-gendering period products through rethinking the design of products, packaging, and the marketing of period products to and for the LGBTIQ+ community. Students will respond to a brief devised by academics whose expertise includes health and design and gender and marketing. They will be given the opportunity to work directly with LQBTIQ+ Health Australia, prominent brands like Cottons, Modi Bodi and Diva Cup and noteworthy advocates in the area of period pride like Share the Dignity, Period Revolution and Chalice Foundation\u2014who will offer students a deep understanding of the market segment and most importantly the users. After completing their projects, students will upload their work to the IDP online platform where their ideas will be exhibited to a global audience, fostering a discourse in inclusive design, intersectionality and empathy.<\/p>\n Cultural Value and Impact \u2013 towards a national research network<\/em> The Cultural Value and Impact Network (CVIN) was developed in 2019 at RMIT University to build develop capacity and expertise in interdisciplinary cultural value research and inventive, interdisciplinary methods for articulating, measuring, evaluating cultural value and social impact of the arts and cultural sector. CVIN was originally developed as a partnership between the School of Art and School of Economics, Finance and Marketing to connect practitioners and academics from across RMIT University. ACUADS funding will assist with the costs of engagement both for the public lectures for the sector of art and design tertiary education and the circulation of proceedings. These presentations, discussions and reflections will address the relationships, gaps and opportunities for collaboration between the independent art sector (ARIs and Collectives) and post secondary art training.<\/p>\n Forms of Autonomy and Togetherness: Artists\u2019 self-organisation, collectivity and peer learning in Indonesia and Australia<\/em> Artist collectives today can be understood as political, industrial, and artistic approaches to self-organisation, with creatives working together with aim to achieve forms of autonomy. Historically, a number of Indonesian collectives have formed out of friendships as well as shared ideologies, workplaces, or political agendas. Many collectives from the Island of Java, in particular, have grown out of a perceived lack of public art infrastructure, training and support. Meanwhile, in Victoria the \u2018artist-run initiative\u2019 (ARI) scene has typically functioned an enabler or producer, with collectives founded to make space for emerging or experimental practice following post-secondary art school training. What these two histories share is the power of strength and diversity in peer activity. And while these collectives self-organise in very different ways, a comparative discussion between these two frameworks may reveal some distinct, common threads: of care, opportunism, cooperation, learning and shared vision […]<\/p>\n ACUADS funding will assist with the costs of engagement both for the public lectures for the sector of art and design tertiary education and the circulation of proceedings. These presentations, discussions and reflections will address the relationships, gaps and opportunities for collaboration between the independent art sector (ARIs and Collectives) and post secondary art training.<\/p>\n Past, present and emerging design histories: an archival, digital network<\/strong><\/em> This project is a collaboration between RMIT Design Archives (Prof. Harriet Edquist), Dr Jenny Grigg (RMIT School of Design) and the Melbourne design studio Public Office. Through a process of\u00a0collaborative design, the project built an innovative proof-of-concept prototype website that seeks to create new ways of displaying both archival objects and the outcomes of research associated with them. The RMIT Design Archives houses collections of artefacts from design studios, including architecture, media and communication, fashion, textiles, product and automotive, that were designed and produced to interface with the public. The prototype website similarly acts as a tool to interface with the public. In addition to displaying the research outputs and impacts generated by the Design Archives it also collects and displays commentary from the RMIT community, external researchers (local as well as international), and other interested parties in order to expand and enrich knowledge production in the field of design. The ACUADS grant enabled Edquist and Grigg to engage Public Office in the design of the prototype.<\/p>\n Click here to view the project webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n Developing guidelines for peer review in the tertiary art and design sector<\/em> This project will initiate the development of shared guidelines encompassing the principles, practice and ethics of peer review within the tertiary art and design sector. It will survey existing guidelines for peer review in multiple research contexts to establish a baseline of current practice. It will convene a representative working group drawn from the national art and design sector to draft proposed guidelines for the sector. It deliver a discussion paper framing a sector-wide conversation on peer review, seeking to establish shared, proactive and sector-specific comprehension.<\/p>\n Establishing an Australian and New Zealand Industrial Designers Educators Network The purpose of this project is to develop a local (AU and NZ) Industrial Design educators network and online platform in order to discuss, debate, promote, share and cultivate best practice in industrial design education. The network will be established through a cross-institutional forum that brings together industrial design educators from universities across Australia and New Zealand. The forum outcomes will inform the development of the website as the primary gateway for initiatives, resources, events, news, opportunities for dialogue, publication and community building.<\/p>\n ACUADS funding will be used for development and realisation of the forum and register the network\u2019s website.<\/p>\n ARC masterclasses for Australian university art and design schools<\/em> CAST is seeking support for the development of a series of workshops designed to build skills and knowledge within the practice-led research sphere in relation to the Australian Research Council (ARC). In developing this workshop series, we would create a set of resources that seek to decode the ARC for practice-led researchers.\u00a0In doing this, we seek to improve the way that practicing artists in Australian universities approach the ARC. Most art and design schools in Australia would be lucky to have one or two practicing artists that have been funded by the ARC. By combining our resources, we can draw on a depth of experience that is stronger than each university can provide on their own.<\/p>\n Developing a model for Community Engagement in Design Studio practice 2018<\/em> As the collaborative studio site was in regional Victoria (Shepparton) the grant enabled staff and students to travel and engage with a real-world site and the complexity of designing for an existing regional community and their challenges with employment, health and climate change. The concept was to image how the historical SPC Cannery site at Mooroopna could be transformed into a regional hub for Tourism, Food and Agricultural Innovation in consultation with the site owners and the local community. This gave the students the opportunity to practice real community engagement that could lead to the development of rejuvenating the site. The grant enabled both community engagement throughout the project but also the presentation and exhibition of the studio collaborations back to the community at the site at the end of the project.<\/p>\n
\n<\/em>Patricia Flanagan (UNSW), Lucas Ihlein (UoW), Ally Bisshop (Griffith), Claire Milledge (UNSW), Prue Gibson (UNSW)
\nParticipating institutions: University of New South Wales, University of Wollongong, Griffith University, Monash University, University of Tasmania, Deakin
\nUniversity, University of Sydney, La Trobe University, Queensland
\nUniversity of Technology, RMIT, University of Tasmania, Edith
\nCowan University, University of South Australia, Australian
\nNational University, Charles Darwin University, Curtin University,
\nVictorian College of the Arts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nNovember 2022<\/h3>\n
\n<\/em>Dr Nicola St John (RMIT) and Dr Fanny Suhendra (Swinburne)
\nOther Project Team Members: Dr Livia Lazzaro Rezende (UNSW), Dr Diana
\nAlbarr\u00e1n Gonz\u00e1lez (UoA), Nina Gibbes and Zenobia Ahmed<\/strong><\/p>\n
\npromote the histories, people, and perspectives often \u2018othered\u2019 or marginalised within Euro-centric histories. We hope the network will reflect the interests and situatedness of the educators and institutions involved. Secondly, this network seeks to create a community to support and champion those creating more inclusive design history courses and curriculum across Australia and New Zealand. To offer spaces to share our experiences within our own institutions, discuss struggles to continually learn and develop, and work together on future projects, such as journal articles, special issues, and conferences.<\/p>\nNovember 2021<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nDr Jane Connory and Dr Shivani Tyagi, Swinburne University of Technology
\nOther Project Team Members: <\/strong>Dr Lauren Gurrieri, <\/strong>RMIT University, Dr Sarah Duffy, <\/strong>University of Western Sydney, Dr Ceridwen Owen<\/strong>, University of Tasmania, LGBTIQ+ Health Australia, <\/strong>Rochelle Courtenay, <\/strong>Share the Dignity, Jane Bennet, <\/strong>The Chalice Foundation, Nikkola Palmer, <\/strong>Period Revolution Lead, GOGO Foundation, Casey Hodges, <\/strong>Senior Account Manager, ModiBodi, Joshua Barton, <\/strong>Co\u2011Founder Barton Brands, Diva Cup, Richard Arbon, <\/strong>Cottons, Simon Mundy, Director, Pepto Lab.<\/strong><\/p>\nApril 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nMarnie Badham and Kit Wise (art), Bronwyn Coate (economics), Gretchen Coombs (design and creative practice) RMIT University
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\nNovember 2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nDr Marnie Badham, RMIT<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nApril 2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nProf Harriet Edquist, Dr Jenny Grigg<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nProfessor Chris McAuliffe, ANU School of Art & Design<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/em><\/strong>Dr Rafael Romez (QUT), Mr Tim Williams (QUT), Dr Scott Mayson (RMIT)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nNovember<\/b>\u00a02018<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nRose Lang and Jonathan O\u2019Donnell,\u00a0Contemporary Art and Social Transformation, RMIT<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nApril 2018<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nDr Judith Glover, RMIT School of Design, Architecture and Urban Design<\/strong><\/p>\n