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Thriving Futures <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ACUADS Conference 2023<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 2nd November (online)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Convenors:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thao Nguyen, School of Art, RMIT University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Kit Wise, Dean, School of Art, RMIT University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2018, a study for the World Economic Forum, The Future of Jobs Report <\/em>2020<\/em>, projected that by 2022 \u2018analytical thinking and innovation, active learning and learning strategies, creativity, originality and initiative\u2019 would be three of the most important skills for the global workforce. This agenda has been highly influential for education policy in the intervening years, for example in the proliferation of STEAM approaches to teaching, learning and research. Understood as an interdisciplinary approach, a role of the creative arts and design was seemingly to bring \u2018creativity\u2019 to the wider tertiary sector through an \u2018interdisciplinary imagination\u2019 for the benefit of industry and, ultimately, society.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This conference revisits the purpose and potential of Art & Design in 2023. Creative practitioners have always looked outwards but today they are increasingly mobile, crossing traditional delineations to engage not just with diverse media and methodologies, but ever more disparate disciplinary fields of practice and influence. The global pandemic was a further disruptor that generated unprecedented innovation in creative fields, out of necessity. This in turn catalysed a re-evaluation of the assumed outcomes of creative education and research; foregrounding skills such as collaboration, communication, empathy and ethics \u2013 so-called \u2018soft skills\u2019 that, in conjunction with innovation and imagination, now appear more important than ever.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The value of creative practice has also emerged from the pandemic in a \u2018new\u2019 light. As the National Cultural Policy begins to acknowledge, rather than prioritising economic drivers as the primary rationale for creative education and research, the inherent social value of culture, care and community is perhaps now better understood. Beyond providing an \u2018interdisciplinary imagination\u2019 that applies the arts in service of other disciplines and industries, we find renewed purpose and potential in the \u2018public labour\u2019 creative practice has always performed.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on our unique Australian perspective, with particular acknowledgement of First Nations knowledge and ways of being, this conference will consider how creative education and research can contribute not only to economies but also to the array of pressing social, environmental and cultural issues to enable thriving futures.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ACUADS is accepting paper and presentation proposals which respond to the following prompts: <\/p>\n\n\n\n