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This chapter demonstrates the value in the collection and inclusion of non-text-based data as part of an evaluation process to develop “impact narratives” resulting from engagement with a dance and movement program. An aim of the evaluation was to empower the voices of all stakeholders, including children, to better articulate program benefits. Thi...
This chapter takes the verbatim theatre production It All Begins With Love as a case study to examine how partnerships between an arts organisation and community and health service providers enabled this project to achieve social impact in regional Queensland. A collaboration between a social-impact arts organisation and numerous local and regional...
Participatory and collaborative approaches to artmaking are embedded within Australia’s arts and cultural sector. Through a diversity of programs and creative processes, arts organisations provide avenues through which individuals and communities may participate in the creation of their own stories. Projects which engage communities as participants...
More than 30 years of focused research in Australia and internationally tells us that the majority of arts and cultural engagement improves connection, wellbeing, knowledge creation and knowledge extension, cultural maintenance, creative problem-solving, imaginative responsiveness and awareness of self in concert with others. Predictably, the COVID...
The frameworks for regional and remote arts funding and delivery have shifted along a continuum of community ownership to fly-in-fly-out arts events, and with each change, the approaches to community consultation and project evaluation have also changed. What has not changed significantly is the underlying belief that regional and remote communitie...
A new public discourse about what the arts contribute and what they bring to the table in the form of meaningful communicative methods, development of inclusive places and compelling avenues for sharing knowledge for all members of society is urgently needed. What has become clear to virtually every arts and cultural organisation and researcher who...
This chapter examines two earlier case studies that focus on attempting to measure value and impact in evaluation. A Queensland Smithsonian Fellowship provides the first case study, and the second documents the impact processes that were trialled in a regional community arts programme that had multiple stakeholders and sites and was geographically...
By telling stories of arts impact through a series of narrative case studies, this book sets out to develop a conceptual understanding and offer frameworks that we hope will stimulate productive conversations or may be used to dynamically assess the value and impact of arts engagement. We have provided Australian impact stories from arts projects w...
The COVID-19 pandemic introduced the idea of the “pivot” as a rapid response by all sectors of the economy, personal relations and arts to almost daily changing circumstances and rules. The pandemic impacted research projects, researchers and study participants, and for those sites and communities already experiencing disconnection due to geographi...
The capacity for creative and arts-based activities to support inclusive and innovative means of communication, advocacy or development for under-represented or under-served communities is still being fully understood and articulated by researchers. However, the communities themselves are often far more advanced in their use of these methodologies...
This article highlights challenges of attempting to rigorously evaluate and meaningfully communicate the social impacts of arts and culture in regional Australia. By examining how arts and culture are perceived in two geographically opposed communities, this research finds the benefits of arts engagement can be tangible and intangible, and both off...
This book brings together discussions about Australian arts policy and funding, outcomes of arts engagement in terms of social inclusion, well-being, and education. It presents exemplars of creative programs or case studies that build capacity and lasting impact for communities in urban and regional Australia. This book describes the impact of the...
Pre-dating COVID-19 it was widely acknowledged that there was a loneliness epidemic and that prolonged loneliness and reduced human touch results in increased propensity to heart disease, stroke and clinical dementia. Given such statistics, and the use of isolation and shielding as a health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative that c...
Cyclone Yasi struck the Cassowary Coast of Northern Queensland, Australia, in the early hours of 3 February 2011, destroying many homes and property, including the destruction of the Cardwell and District Historical Society’s (CDHS) premises. With their own homes flattened, many residents were forced to live in mobile accommodation, with extended f...
Our contemporary public sphere has seen the 'emergence of new political rituals, which are concerned with the stains of the past, with self disclosure, and with ways of remembering once taboo and traumatic events' (Misztal, 2005). A recent case of this phenomenon occurred in Australia in 2009 with the apology to the 'Forgotten Australians': a group...
Institutions of public memory are increasingly undertaking co-creative media initiatives in which community members create content with the support of institutional expertise and resources. This paper discusses one such initiative: the State Library of Queensland’s ‘Responses to the Apology’, which used a collaborative digital storytelling methodol...
This chapter defines, explores and Illustrates research at the intersection of people, place and technology in cities. First, we theorise the notion of ecology in the social production of space to continue our response to the quest of making sense of an environment characterised by different stakeholders and actors as well as technical, social and...
The Idea of Participatory Public HistoryThe “Sharing Stories” ProjectReconfiguring the Digital Storytelling WorkshopReflection and EvaluationRethinking Digital LiteracyConclusion
This chapter defines, explores and Illustrates research at the intersection of people, place and technology in cities. First, we theorise the notion of ecology in the social production of space to continue our response to the quest of making sense of an environment characterised by different stakeholders and actors as well as technical, social and...
Many new urban developments are systematically planned and rapidly built and marketed, creating instant ‘communities’ in relatively dense concentrations. As a consequence, urban planners are turning to the social sciences, arts and humanities for answers to achieve socially sustainable developments. This paper discusses a narrative based approach t...
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) provides a wide range of primary and secondary material relating to family history research for the use of Queenslanders. As part of a new strategic priority Queensland Memory: Today for tomorrow, State Library commissioned a QUT research team to prepare this scoping document, which examines the current family...
This chapter defines, explores and exemplifies research at the intersection of people, place and technology in cities. First we theorise the notion of ecology in the social production of space to continue our response to the quest of making sense of an environment characterised by different stakeholders and actors as well as technical, social and d...
In this issue's Works in Progress department, we have 12 urban computing and mobile device entries that span a wide range of computing and social areas. The first entry examines how an urban environment could operate as a large-scale, real-time control system. One project focuses on annotating public spaces and sharing the tags with others. Two pro...
The Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV) is a diverse inner-city master-planned development in Brisbane, Australia, established through a partnership between Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the Queensland Government's Department of Housing. The 16-hectare KGUV has been home to indigenous people, military and educational institutions, but...
The digital revolution has meant that writers and writing are in a state of flux like never before. New technologies are not only impacting on how writing is produced and consumed, but also on the forms available to writers – forms that come with as many challenges as there are opportunities.
A new dimension of creative collaboration is emerging and this paper aims to share the journey of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village Sharing Stories project so far, addressing the possibilities and pitfalls of the IP/copyright/moral rights contract. While this is a public history focussed on life-writing undertakings, the ensuing suggestions, discussio...
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Building Bridges: an oral history collection of B&R Pty Ltd traces the
founding and development of this unique, Australian, company from its
earnest beginnings fifty years ago to its formidable market position
today.
This collection includes interviews gathered to piece together a picture
of how and why B&R developed—aiming to capture the...
In Australia a person is reported missing to police every eighteen minutes. Of those reported missing, 99.5% are found, but even if the period of loss is only a few minutes, the families of those who are lost 'die a little death' until their loved ones are found.
This chapter defines, explores and exemplifies research at the intersection of people, place and technol - ogy in cities. First, we theorise the notion of ecology in the social production of space to continue our response to the quest of making sense of an environment characterised by different stakeholders and actors as well as technical, social a...
The Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV) is a diverse inner-city master-planned community in Brisbane, Australia, established through a strong partnership between the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the Queensland Government’s Department of Housing (www.kgurbanvillage.com.au). The 16 hectare KGUV is unique, because the land’s past use in...
In the policy imagination, the practice of citizenship has conventionally been separated from entertainment, leisure and consumption activities. This interpretation is based on a traditional but narrow view of the public sphere that focuses on political and civic rights and responsibilities. According to this view, the cultural dimensions of citize...
Kelvin Grove is a small inner-city working-class suburb, which has always been a gathering point for various people. While never densely populated, the 16-hectares of land that is now the heart of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV) – a Department of Housing redevelopment -- has been a meeting place for indigenous clans, and military and educatio...
Oral history research methodologies are growing in popularity as an instrument of capturing contemporary stories or voices, of the local, personal, public and the global experience. A corporate or global organisation can benefit from partnering with an oral historian to produce collections that are relevant and useful to both, but superior methodol...
Public History and Partnerships
Oral history research methodologies are growing in popularity as a way of capturing contemporary stories, or voices, of the local, personal, public and global experience. An oral historian, as the name suggests, continually works in partnerships — with the people they interview and the organisation they may represen...
A 50 year history of the family owned company, B&R Enclosures, Pty Ltd Digital Story Telling
Onward Bound: — the first 50 years of Outward Bound Australia traces the founding and development of this unique, non-profit, non-government organization. From its earnest beginnings in a climate of post war cultural change, Outward Bound Australia (OBA) has adapted to remain relevant and currently attracts some 5,000 participants a year to its cou...
The Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV; www.kgurbanvillage.com.au) — an AU$400 million urban renewal project in inner-city Brisbane, Australia — seeks to integrate residential, commercial, educational, social, and cultural facilities. Both developers (the Queensland government and Queensland University of Technology) expect the initiative to be fully...
Many new urban developments are systematically planned and rapidly built and marketed, creating instant “communities‿ in relatively dense concentrations. As a consequence, urban planners are turning to the social sciences, arts and humanities for answers to achieve socially sustainable developments. This paper discusses a narrative based approach t...
The introduction of new media and information and communication technology enables a greater variety of formats and content beyond conventional texts in the application and discourse of public history projects. Multimedia and personalised content requires public historians and cultural community developers to grasp new skills and methods to make re...
The digital stories, information and games activities about refugees will enable you to develop an empathy and understanding of what it is like to flee from a homeland, to settle in Australia and adapt to new cultural experiences. Refugee journeys are explored and an insight will be gained into the family values that are important to diverse multic...
Abstract: Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV) is an innovative flagship project for its stakeholders, the Department of Housing and Queensland University of Technology. Their combined vision and philosophical approach has fostered innovative research in economic, environmental and, in the case of this paper, social sustainability.
As urban planners...
This booklet aims to offer oral history as a tool to be used by
communities to see their history from a social or humanist stance.
Allowing the public to create a collective narrative about the people
and places in their surrounds that form part of our contemporary
Australian history. Sharing Stories history project commenced in June 2004 and o...
The KGUV stakeholders commissioned a history project to produce significant
research, community, and heritage outcomes. The KGUV Sharing Stories
history project commenced in June 2004 and over the following thirty months
captured the social history and heritage of Kelvin Grove Urban Village and its
surrounding community in: an online archive (l...
Be delighted with the digital stories of 'wild' backyards in Queensland. These stories were created in Innifail, Brisbane and Roma backyards. Digital Stories with learning resource about Wild Backyards - people describing their gardens, their native animals and habitat.
This review recognises and supports the State Library of Queensland's (SLQ) developing role as a leader in collection, preservation and access, as well as service and training provision, public engagement and creative innovation in oral history and digital storytelling.
The review includes a comprehensive survey of the current status of the SLQ o...
Onward Bound: -- the first 50 years of Outward Bound Australia traces the founding and development of this unique, Australian, non-profit, non-government organisation from its earnest beginnings to its formidable position today where it attracts some 5,000 participants a year to its courses.
The project included interviewing hundreds of people and...
The Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV) is a 16-hectare urban renewal redevelopment project of the Queensland Department of Housing and the
Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Over the last century, the land has housed military and educational institutions that have shaped Brisbane and Queensland. These groups each have their own history. Col...
The insatiable interest in biography, memoir and historical stories that portray
‘ordinary’ people’s lives has not abated. It seems to reflect a natural human instinct to
be curious about ourselves, the lives of others and our past. An abundance of New
Media technologies have helped to popularise these genres, along with that of public
and loca...
SUBTEXT is a collection of photographic works by Bridgette McKelvey that reflect the MILL’s heritage as a canvas for contemporary art. This work was exhibited at: Our Voice, Our History, Our Community, Our Mill: Albion Flour Mill Exhibition in 2008.
Framed in the MILL’s restored industrial flour sifters, SUBTEXT features the vibrant graffiti gestu...
This paper considers the question, ‘what is co-creative media, and why is it a useful idea in social media research’? The term ‘co-creative media’ is now used by Creative Industries researchers at QUT to describe their digital storytelling practices. Digital storytelling is a set of collaborative digital media production techniques that have been u...
This article discusses a pilot project that adapted the methods of digital storytelling and oral history to capture a range of personal responses to the official Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples delivered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 13 February 2008. The project was an initiative of State Library of Queensland and resulted in a small c...
