DDCA’s 2021 Forum was conducted in partnership with the annual conference of the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) and took place predominantly online. The DDCA forum on 28 October combined a reflective focus on the effects of COVID on our creative disciplines and a look forward to how we might reinvigorate our sector, particularly through learnings from the UK experience.
The ACUADS conference on 29 October included presentations from Art and Design colleagues on the topics of networks and resilience and a plenary discussion on health and wellbeing which included a presentation by Julia Edwards from Entertainment Assist who has contributed a news item to this edition.
This edition of NiTRO captures and shares insights from this combined event:
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Professors Julia Prendergast (Swinburne University) and Jen Webb (University of Canberra) consider the proposal for an Academy of Creative Arts as they recount their recent AAWP-Government interactions
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Keynote speaker Professor David McGravie (University of Derby) reflects upon developments in the UK as he issues a call for UK and Australian creative arts to form an active coalition
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Second Keynote speaker Associate Professor David Pearson (Anglia Ruskin University) explains the value of arts education from a cognitive psychology perspective
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Professor Paul Gough (Arts University Bournemouth) takes us on a Yellow Brick Road journey to chart the current challenges for both UK and Australia
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Dr Katie Lee (Deakin) unpacks the ongoing importance of practice in art education
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Dr Nancy Mauro-Flude (RMIT) explores changing pedagogy in the post-COVID environment
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Professor Dennis Del Favero (UNSW) reports on a DDCA commissioned analysis of recent tertiary creative arts activity and enrolment trends
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Professor Kit Wise (RMIT) recaps the recent ACUADS/DDCA Conference and the lessons learned
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NiTRO editor, Dr Jenny Wilson, shares some of the features of NiTRO’s five-year journey.