Speakers and Events
Iwi Creativity: An Exhibition by Maori Creative Arts Students
The "Iwi Creativity" initiative highlights Maori student study activities across the range of design and fine arts offerings in the College. An annual showcase provides the opportunity for the College to celebrate and promote Maori student creative work. The event also provides an opportunity to invite Whanau and the wider community to share in our aspiration for Maori achievement.
The "Iwi Creativity" poster exhibition features the creative work of individual Maori students currently undertaking studies in the creative arts. While the posters emphasise the importance of Maori student contribution and academic endeavour in their chosen discipline they also emphasise the iwi connections with whom they are affiliated.
He toi whakairo, He mana tangata.
Where there is artistic excellence there is human dignity
'Bwai ni Kiribati' by Tony Whincup: Book Launch
The launch of Associate Professor Tony Whincup's new book 'Bwai ni Kiribati; Artefacts of Experience'
Introduction by Dr Teresia Teaiwa, Programme Director Pacific Studies, Victoria University.
Traditional Kiribati dancing at 5pm.
Photo: Te Ikuiku by Tony Whincup
Paul Carter (AUS): Creating Place
Internationally acclaimed writer and artist Paul Carter will discuss the implications, both institutional and methodological, for new ways of thinking about and producing places.
Carter relocates creativity at the heart of debates about sustainability. Creative research involves 'material thinking' - thinking that is situated, opportunistic and evolutionary. As institutions cannot accommodate these attributes, creative research is best conducted outside the academy. The Melbourne-based Centre for Creative Place Research (CPR), currently being established to mediate partnerships between 'end users' and 'research producers', seeks to reinstate creativity's role in placemaking.
This model recognises the creative potential of places to (re-)create themselves beyond the bounds of prescriptive planning discourses, and in the face of change. Places are both biological communities and mythopoetic constructs; change correlates to both bio-systemic realities and human destinies. Creative research documents phenomena that fall between the physical and psychological domains.
Carter's latest book Dark Writing (2008) discusses techniques for applying these phenomena in the field of placemaking. Carter’s lecture will be of interest to all those who are considering the problematic nature of creative research within institutions.