2019 ACUADS CONFERENCE: ENGAGEMENT 31st October – 1st November, Melbourne co-hosted by the School of Art and School of Design, RMIT University, and the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne 1 2019 ACUADS CONFERENCE: ENGAGEMENT The 2019 ACUADS Conference focuses research in order to achieve impact but on the meaning of engagement for also to explore the unknown? How do we contemporary art and design schools: educate to achieve innovation but remain across disciplines, nationalities and connected to history? How do we sustain cultures; but also with industries, a critical commentary on society whilst communities and the world at large. receiving the rewards and resourcing? What can we learn from indigenous Our guiding principle was that perspectives on engagement? In the design is neither an intellectual year when the Excellence in Research nor a material affair, but simply for Australia framework articulated the an integral part of the stuff of life, first sector-wide measures of impact and necessary for everyone in a civilized engagement, we ask: does engagement society. allow new futures for the creative arts, or — Walter Gropius has engagement become a dirty word? 2019 marks the centenary of the founding Finally, it has been a delight to of the Weimar State Bauhaus by Walter co-host the conference as a collaboration Gropius. Revolutionising models of art, between the School of Art and the School design and architecture education at the of Design, RMIT University, and the time, the school drew on interdisciplinary Victorian College of the Arts, University ideals, international parameters and a of Melbourne. My personal thanks to the deeply held social conscience. Gropius steering committee, and, the inestimable established the archetypal Modernist Dr Amy Spiers. school by engaging across media, disciplines, cultures, classes and genders, Thank you for joining us in Melbourne with a deep commitment to the material, and we look forward to sharing ideas the applied and the experimental. These around engagement past, present aspirations still ring true one hundred and future. years later, although the models and context have changed. Professor Kit Wise Dean School of Art As we look to the start of a new RMIT University decade in 2020 and beyond, how do we demonstrate value without instrumentalising creativity? How do we 2 3 CONFERENCE STEERING COMMITTEE ABOUT Professor Kit Wise, Dean, School of Art, The Australian Council of University Art The aims of the Australian Council RMIT University (co-convenor) and Design Schools (ACUADS) is the peak of University Art and Design Schools discipline body of university visual arts, (ACUADS) are: Associate Professor Kate Daw, Head, crafts and design. VCA Art, Victorian College of the Arts, • to provide leadership to professional Faculty of Fine Art and Music, ACUADS was established in 1981 (initially education, research and community The University of Melbourne (co-convenor) as the National Conference of Heads of service in art, craft and design in the Arts and Design Schools – NCHADS) as higher education sector Dr David Sequeira, Director, an association of heads of departments, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian schools and colleges of art and design. • to promote quality College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts NCHADS served as an informal link professional education of and Music, University of Melbourne between executive officers providing artists, crafts practitioners support and direction to the development and designers Dr Danny Butt, Associate Director of art and design education in Australia (Research), Victorian College of the Arts, for more than ten years. The change of • to identify, develop and foster Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, name in 1994 to ACUADS was intended research in art, craft and design The University of Melbourne to reflect the location of art and design education on a national schools in the National Unified System international basis Associate Professor Shane Hulbert, of Australian Universities. In 2003, Associate Dean Photography, membership was extended to include • to develop policy and advocate School of Art, RMIT University other major TAFE institutions offering on behalf of art, craft and design degree courses. teaching and research. Associate Professor Richard Roberts, Performance Design, Victorian College ACUADS represents over thirty Australian of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, university art and design faculties, schools The University of Melbourne and departments and other academic units offering university degrees at Dr Neal Haslem, Associate Dean, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, Communication Design, School of Design, including bachelor, master, and doctorate RMIT University in art, craft and design. Dr Amy Spiers, 2019 ACUADS Conference ACUADS plays an active role in Producer, School of Art, RMIT University shaping quality education for artists, crafts practitioners and designers. The organisation addresses issues affecting the sector, and is concerned with the status of the visual arts and design industries in the wider economic, social and cultural development of Australia. 4 5 ESSENTIAL INFORMATION Registration Medical Assistance Staying on time Program Registration is located in the Kenneth Please see below, a list of the closest Sessions are 90 minutes. The organisers have made every effort to Myer Auditorium Foyer, Ian Potter medical facilities to the conference. If you are presenting please ensure you ensure the information contained in this Southbank Centre on Day 1 of the keep to your allotted time. We ask all program is correct. We sincerely apologise Conference and at the Capitol Theatre Closest Hospital: presenters and session chairs to please be for any errors or omissions that might have until 11am on Day 2, and Kaleide Theatre The Royal Melbourne Hospital at your room 30–15 minutes prior to the slipped through. Foyer for the rest of the day. Registration 300 Grattan St, Parkville VIC 3050 session to set up. Volunteers or chairs will is open from 8.30am on both days. (03) 9342 7000 be on hand to assist. We ask session chairs Please be aware that the period between to be strict with time keeping, to ensure 8.30–9am on Thursday 31st October will Closest Pharmacy near venues Day 1: delegates have enough time to take a be our busiest registration period. Please Chemist Warehouse Southbank break and collect refreshments before the arrive early to ensure you can obtain your 153/159 Sturt St, Southbank VIC 3006 next sessions begin. printed schedule, lanyard with your name (03) 9682 2278 tag before the first scheduled event. Conference breaks Closest GP near venues Day 1: A light morning and afternoon tea, as Wayfinding Southgate Medical Centre well as a more substantial lunch, will be Please consult the conference map and 3 Southgate Ave, Southbank VIC 3006 provided by STREAT, a social enterprise schedule to find the key venues of the (03) 9690 1433 catering service. Coffee and tea will conference which are The Ian Potter also be available. We have located Southbank Centre, Building 880 for Day Closest Pharmacy near venues Day 2: conference breaks at the Kenneth Myer 1 and Building 80, Building 24, Kaleide Terry White Chemmart Auditorium Foyer on Day 1 and inside the Theatre and the Capitol Theatre for Day 2. Melbourne Central, Shop 152C, Kaleide Theatre Foyer on Day 2. After Conference volunteers and staff with red 211 La Trobe St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 you have collected your refreshments, we lanyards, as well as conference signage, (03) 9650 8850 encourage you to have your break at the will be placed around the conference to peaceful outdoor public spaces available help you find your way around. Please Closest GP near venues Day 2: around both venues. The volunteers would note that RMIT rooms are coded in the La Trobe St Medical be around to direct you to these places. following way: Building number. Level (entry via Terry White Chemmart on number. Room number (e.g. 80.11.09 is Level 1 of Melbourne Central) Reducing waste Building 80, Level 11, Room 9). Please be We aim to limit the ecological footprint of aware there may be other conferences the event by avoiding single-use plastic across RMIT campus during the ACUADS wherever possible. Please bring a reusable Conference, and don’t hesitate to ask our coffee cup and water bottle if possible. volunteers for help if you find yourself lost. 6 7 KULIN MELBOURNE: KULIN MELBOURNE: 2019 ACUADS CONFERENCE MAP SITES OF INDIGENOUS SIGNIFICANCE Based on the 2017 Open House We acknowledge the Traditional Melbourne map initiated by Koorie Custodians of the land that this Heritage Trust and Jefa Greenaway map represents, the peoples of the to showcase the Indigenous presence Kulin Nation, and pay our respects to in Melbourne, connect with the their Elders, past, present and future. importance of the Trust as anchoring This land was never ceded. This map these contemporary connections, of Kulin Melbourne demonstrates designed by Letoya Muraru, 2019. The the ongoing connection of our initial map was developed to show the Indigenous communities to land chosen sites and foreground Indigenous and place that existed before agency, cultural expression and to flip our invasion and continues today. understanding of Country. The map is intended as a starting point to recognise just some of the many sites of Indigenous significance found across Kulin Melbourne, and is by no means a complete list. The highlighted locations include sites of intangible cultural heritage,