Creative Sustainable Communities
The Creative Sustainable Communities theme focuses on creative responses to the diverse challenges facing individuals, communities and the environment. Researchers engage with these challenges through creative practice that generates sustainable responses. Projects focus on: play and creativity; interventions for sustainable futures and Indigenous narrative and inclusion.
Research Projects
Play, Creativity and Wellbeing Projects
Home Economix: A Lab for Decentralising Public and Community Art Through Domestic Spaces
Home Economix is an Australian network of media artists, curators, designers, researchers, creative technologists and writers, exploring digital and mixed reality (XR) interventions in domestic and public space. Our founding members are Jess Herrington, Anna Madeleine Raupach, Kate Matthews, Daniel Savage and Denise Thwaites, with the support of Tactical Space Lab, Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centres, the University of Canberra and Australia Council for the Arts.
http://www.homeeconomix.org
ACT Creative Industries Assessment
Funder: ACT Government
Research Leaders
- Associate Professor Cathy Hope
- Associate Professor Bethaney Turner
- Dr Denise Thwaites
- Professor Jen Webb