Centre
for Creative Arts Master Class
REFLECTING
ON CREATIVE RESEARCH
Date:
October 26
Times:
10am â 4.30 pm
Venue:
Seminar Hall @ The Centre for Advanced Studies
Professor
Paul Carter, Deakin University
CALL
FOR EXPRESSIONS FOR POSTGRADUATE
PARTICIPANTS
Creative
Arts practices are now accepted academic
pursuits. With this form of research come new
challenges for masters and PhD students. The
difficulty we face is how to merge these
creative projects with the expectations of
academia. With support from the Centre for
Creative Arts (La Trobe), Paper Tigers as its
postgraduate initiative seeks postgraduates
students interested in creative research, to
participate in a workshop led by Professor
Paul Carter (Deakin University). The aim of
the MASTERCLASS is to pinpoint issues relating
to how we think through creative practices in
a university environment.
Prof
Paul Carter is an internationally
acclaimed artist and academic. He is currently
Deputy Director of the Centre for Memory,
Imagination and Invention at Deakin
University. Paul has theorised creative
research practice and mentors in this area.
His research interests include: the poetics of
place-making, public space design and the
application of creative research to community
renewal, strategic planning and policy
formation. In 2004 he published âMaterial
Thinking,â which became a seminal book on the
theory and practice of creative research.In
2008 he followed this up with Dark Writing:
performance, geography, design, which extends
creative research theory and practice into the
domain of planning.
Web
references:
The
MASTERCLASS is limited to 30 students. Ten
postgraduate students, from those applying,
will be selected to actively participate in
the MASTERCLASS, while the remaining students
will be invited to attend the dayâs events.
Please apply by submitting a short 150 word
abstract of your research so far, and a brief
biography by October 1, 2012 at pt-events@centreforcreativearts.org.au
The
successful 10 participants will have the
opportunity to have their research featured on
the Paper Tigers section of the CCA website.
Paper Tigers together with Professor Carter
will draw on the experience of the day to
develop an e-publication which will be
distributed via the Centreâs website.
This
is a free event and will be catered. Booking
is required.
Structure
of the Day
- A
getting-to-know-you show-and-tell.
- Introduction
to a toolbox of terms and frames provided by
Professor
- Carter,
e.g. the techniques of analogical thinking
in material practice
- Exercises
in material gymnastics which can take the
form of improvised
- collaborations.
- Exercises
in multi-sensing public spaces
- A
discussion about the dayâs work, possible
publication outcome and
- networking
The
Paper Tigers project is a student-led
initiative to provide a network for emergent
scholars and arts practitioners to discuss
research and publishing. Paper Tigers is
currently convened by Emily Ashman, Jan
Hendrik Brueggemeier and Eloise Ross.
