Creativity, Culture and Community

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2015:

One week: 40 hours (including reading)

• Undergraduate degree in the arts (across art forms such as the performing arts, music, visual arts, film, dance & digital arts)
• A complementary degree in associated areas such as social sciences , areas within the design industry sector –architecture, landscape, computer science and also related areas in cultural studies, applied sciences and in international development fields )

Equivalent of 3 years professional practice in the creative arts industry

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This final Unit/ Subject 4 will draw on and converge all the learning from the previous three Units/ Subjects. This study program will include project creation & planning as an examination of “The creative artists as community cultural animateur” It will involve the creation of a CCD project proposal. It will involve the following: Partnership Opportunities - Project Creation - Project Description- Project Rationalisation- Project Planning - Project Implementation Methodologies- Project Budget -Project Evaluation Report Writing – Presentation& Marketing –Career Planning

This process will be fully documented in journal and will culminate in a project presentation or pitch to invited guests from the CCD industry of a proposed CCD project.

• Display ability for collaborative & participatory practice in the creative arts within a community engagement model.
• Work collaboratively & confidently as a community facilitator & cultural animateur across a range of disciplines and creative art practices.
• Communicate with high level of action research, verbal, and written skills.
• Exhibit the skills to interpret, analyse and problem solve.
• Present and implement a developed knowledge of the creative processes within a community-based arts program.
• Understand the concepts of culture cultural diversity & identity, personal & interpersonal capacity and ethics in a community context.
• Express an arts & community practice in an accessible form at a community level.
• Ability to strategically broker and network cross-sectional partnerships within a broad based arts and cultural domain.
• Ability to employ creative methodologies & evaluation measures.
• Understanding education methodology as a keep component of CCD.

Document and plan and pitch a CCD program

• Class participation and engagement (20%)

• Journal (20%)

• Planning Presentation of CCD Project (60%)

Haggort,Giep, Arts Management Entrepreneurial Style, 3rd edition, CW Delft: Eburon, 2003

Felicity Allen Education - Documents of Contemporary Art Series MIT Press Cambridge 2011

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• To work across disciplines
• To communicate verbally and in words
• To Collaborate and be flexible
• The ability to
  • use a range of research tools and methodologies
  • create and organise aesthetic material
  • solve problems
  • lead others in the skills of problem solving
  • interpret and analyse
  • work as a leader showing initiative and openness
  • network and broker
  • employ innovation methodologies
  • reflect and evaluate
• The capacity for critical thinking

Leadership and mentoring