Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Event presentations: Index  

Design works: Towards a national policy

Associate Professor Anne Marsh   31 March 2008

Reviewing the National Innovation System - A response from the sector

Australia is a country with a dynamic, emerging design culture. However, it lags severely behind other countries, which are benefiting greatly from a strategic and holistic approach to design promotion, aimed at building national prosperity. ...

Helen O'Neil and John H Howard in conversation

Ms Helen O'Neil   31 March 2008

Aesthetics, design, ideas, performance and imagination: how do they contribute to an innovative economy?

It seems almost incredible that we have had more than a decade of debate about innovation policies in which the cultural and arts industries have been almost invisible. But that is the fact. ...

Generating new creativities: artist led innovation

Dr Melinda Rackman   31 March 2008

[PDF 2.1 MB] Australian Network for Art and Technology presentation by Dr Meinda Rackman and Mr Gavin Artz ...

A Creative Industries Innovation Centre

Professor John Hartley   31 March 2008

Federal Laborwill invest $17 million in the Creative Industries Innovation Centre,

[PDF 890 kB] Federal Labor’sCreative Industries Innovation Centrewill bring together creative businesses ranging across industries like digital design, creative communications, electronic gaming, film and television production, theatre, dance and contemporary music. ...

A Stitch in Time

Professor Brad Hartman   31 March 2008

Issues in the Arts and Innovation sectors

[PDF 485 kB] Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences for example, can enhance the organisational, management, legal and marketing knowledge that is crucial to successful innovation. ...

Our response to the Innovation Agenda

Ms Veronica Bullock   31 March 2008

[PDF 522 kB] The Collections Council's vision is for collections in Australia to be a source of knowledge, ideas, understanding, inspiration and creativity. ...

Speech by the CEO of the Australia Council for the Arts

Ms Kathy Keele   31 March 2008

It's great that CHASS has brought us all together to discuss this issue, which is becoming increasingly important to Australia, as well as the arts right now and into the foreseeable future. ...

Shaping new attitudes

Ms Catrina Vignando   31 March 2008

As a sector that represents creatives that readily engage in the take up of new technologies and innovative processes, we need to re-shape the public’s perception of this sector’s dynamic practice and its capacity to lead in the development of new design, manufactu ...

Creating the conditions for innovation

Associate Professor Su Baker   31 March 2008

Art School 2.0

This paper builds on two presentations, one called Art School 2.0, given at Griffith University in 2007 and Reciprocal Relations and the Art of the Possible: Art Schools in a new cultural economy, at QUT in 2005. Today we are here to address the questi ...